This interview with Beryl Segal was conducted on April 28, 1976. The interview discusses his reasons for coming to the United States, Jewish faith, customs, and roles in community, oppression by Russian soldiers in Jewish communities, his trip to the United States, the Jewish community in Providence (R.I.), and his feelings about his identity.

In addition to the audio recording of the interview, there is a typed summary and abstract.

Original abstract (1976):

Mr. Segal came from the Ukraine in 1923 at the age of twenty. He settled in South Providence and lived there until 1952 when he moved to the East Side.

This interview produced a good deal of solid information. Mr. Segal detailed his life in a small town in Russia and described how his family escaped to Austria and sailed to New York from Holland. After a brief stay in New York he moved to Providence to live with his wife's family. Mr. Segal described the South Providence Jewish community in its heyday and discussed the changes he saw between 1923 and 1952. He contrasted this Jewish community with that of the North End and traced the movement of the Jews south towards Cranston and Warwick and east towards Blackstone Boulevard. He talked at length about the origins and structure of the Bast Side Jewish community and highlighted changes from and continuities with the past.