Tillie De Leon - 24-May-2001 -€“ Weaving Women'€™s Words

About this film

Oral historian Roz Bornstein interviewed Tillie De Leon on May 24 and June 1, 2001 in Mercer Island, Washington as part of the Jewish Women's Archive "Weaving Women's Words" project. An independent, intelligent, and industrious woman, Tillie De Leon is the matriarch of the original Peha family in Seattle, Sephardic immigrants from the Greek Island of Rhodes. One of the first Sephardic children born in Seattle, Tillie's ground-breaking life continued when she left her close-knit community and moved to Los Angeles to take an accounting job. Married and widowed in Los Angeles, Tillie married Albert De Leon and returned with him to Seattle. Ever hardworking and optimistic, Tillie continued her paid work until age 80, and remains active in volunteer activities. Tillie De Leon photo: Credit Joan Roth. Joan Roth's website In the early 2000s, the Jewish Women's Archive conducted oral history interviews with 30 Jewish women living in Baltimore and another 30 in Seattle. Born in the early decades of the 20th century, these women lived through decades of political, social, and economic upheaval, as well as dramatic changes in expectations and opportunities for women. Doctors and lawyers, teac…

Directors & creators

Jewish Women's Archive

Subjects

Sephardic; Career; Peha matriarch

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