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Charles Lazarus. This interview with Charles Lazarus for the Columbus Jewish Historical Society was recorded November 12, 1995 as part of the Columbus Jewish Historical Society Oral History Project recorded by Bette Young. PART ONE.
There is absolutely no way that store would have survived the pandemic.) Toys "R" Us has been sort of resurrected in a zombie state; you can find it in some Macy's. Unlike his biblical namesake, Lazarus, of course, is still dead. In what must have been a colossal coincidence, Lazarus was the Toys "R" Us founder. Verdict: Jew.
Lazarus was born on October 4, 1923, to a Jewish family in Washington, D.C., where he was raised as a child. His parents, Frank and Phoebe Lazarus, owned and operated a bike shop. Lazarus served as a cryptographer in the U.S. Army during World War II. Career
In 1952 he received the Humanitarian Award from Temple Israel. And, again, in 1999 they honored him for his lifetime of continued outstanding leadership and philanthropic activities in support of both the Jewish and greater Columbus communities.
In the 1930s, Simon wrote almost daily letters to his son Charles at Yale, detailing the minutiae of life among the Lazari. Those letters, carefully saved by Charles Lazarus, fill an entire box in the Lazarus Family Papers collection at the Ohio Historical Society.
Oral Histories. Oral history interviews are the recollections of people as recorded on audio tape and then transcribed by other people. As such, oral histories are subject to errors in fact and interpretation. The CJHS makes no representation about fact or interpretation in these transcribed interviews. Transcriptions were done by a variety of ...
Gottlieb sees Lazarus as part of a bigger wave of entrepreneurship that took hold in the post-war years. “The modern American toy industry was really created by Jewish soldiers coming back from...
