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1 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project LEON WEINTRAUB Interviewed By: Charle The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project LEON WEINTRAUB Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial interview date: July 6, 2005 Copyright 2007 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Born and raised in New York City Hunter College$ Brooklyn College (City University of ew York)$ University Of Pittsburgh$ University of Wisconsin Peace Corps, ,iberia (19.2019.1) Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C.$ 3anagement Intern 19.8 Private Consulting Firm, Hartford, Conn. 19.8 Office of Economic Opportunity University of Wisconsin7 Study for Doctorate Degree 19.901981 Field Research in Sierra ,eona (198101982) Entered the Foreign Service in 1985 1985 State Department$ Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs 198501988 International Commodities Family State Department$ FSI7 Spanish language study 1988 Bogot;, Colombia$ Rotation Officer 198801989 Export promotion Guerrilla movement (FARC) Economy Security Environment Visas Jewish community Stat Department$ FSI$ Hebrew language study 198901980 1 Tel Aviv, Israel$ Consular Officer 198001982 Internal politics AWho is a JewBC debate Jerusalem status Visas Environment Religious groups American Jewish community Anwar Sadat visit Israel0Egypt Agreement African representation Israeli treatment of diplomats Israelis enter ,ebanon ,agos, igeria$ Political Officer 198201981 Coups Oil Economy Corruption Government ,egal system Tribes and religion Human Rights Environment Duito, Ecuador$ Political Officer 19810198. Anti0Terrorist Assistance Program ,ebanese community Peruvian border problem US military programs Environment Human Rights State Department$ I R7 Israel Analyst 198.01988 Function of I R in Intelligence Community Intifada Effect of Arab oil wealth State Department$ Human Rights Bureau 198801990 ,atin America nations Amnesty International Human Rights Watch State Department$ Nigeria Desk Office 199001992 Ibrahim Babangida 2 US interests Scamming letters State Department$ United Nations Political Affairs, IO Bureau 19920199E Peace0keeping operations (Africa) Somalia Security Council issues Humanitarian emergencies ation Building International aid organiFations Geneva, SwitFerland$ US 3ission to the United Nations 199E01998 Political and SpecialiFed Agencies International Agencies AGeneva GroupC operations U Human Rights meeting African Resolutions African genocides Human Rights Commission U specialiFed OrganiFations US Awalk0outsC International Red Cross Guwait Gulf War prisoners Industrial College of the Armed Forces, US Defense University 199801998 State Department$ European Affairs Bureau Coordinator, OSCE 199802000 OSCE 3embership Serbia and Gosovo Ethnic cleansing Gosovo Verification 3ission Russian withdrawal issue Human Rights ATO State Department$ Deputy Director, West African Affairs 200002002 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Charles Taylor 3ilitary Training Programs igeria UG troops to Sierra ,eone Aarc of crisisC Refugees on0Government OrganiFations ( GOHs) US Policy African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) E Cote dHIvoire State Department$ Bureau of International Narcotics I ,aw 20020 Enforcement Afghanistan programs World0wide drug0fighting programs Central Asian nations U Office of Drugs and Crime (U ODC) Human Rights Programs Freedom Support Act funds Department of Justice programs US military priorities INTERVIEW Q: Today is the sixth of July, 2005. This is an interview with Leon (eintraub. (hat does (eintraub mean* Traub I always think is a pigeon or something or a dog or something. WEI TRAUB7 Actually, itHs0 I donHt speak German but I understand it means wine grape. Q: (ine grape. ,es. Alright, well let-s first, let-s sort of get at the beginning. (hen and where were you born* WEI TRAUB7 I was born in New York City, 3ay 18, 1912. Q: Alright. Can you tell me first sort of on the father-s side, what you know about the (eintraubs on their side and then we-ll do your mother-s side. WEI TRAUB7 Best I can tell is that my fatherHs father, my grandfather, emigrated to the United States, maybe as a teenager from what we understand from the little family history that was passed down. His parents were divorced. Q: (here did they .ome from* WEI TRAUB7 ThatHs tough to say J weHre really not sure. WeHve had little snippets of family history. We think it was somewhere in southern Poland. We think we may have it down to a village with a name that sounds like AStriFiv,C or an area, but weHre really not sure$ thereHs really not much in the way of documents that can support that. And his Kmy grandfather Samuel WeintraubHsL mother remarried and I guess he didnHt get along with his stepfather or his motherHs new husband. So as a teenager he came over probably in the 1880s. We have heard from my father how his father managed in the big bliFFard in ew York City which I think it was 18880 1 Q: I think it was -88, yes, that was that tremendous bli00ard, buried the .ity. WEI TRAUB7 Right. How he somehow, he managed to survive that period there J it must have been very difficult. I recall hearing from my father how his father was a young street peddler at the time and was sleeping in a pushcart during the snowstorm. Then he met his future wife in the United States Kor he may have met her parents on the ship coming overL and was married. As a matter of fact, I have a copy of the invitation to their wedding$ he was married in New York City in 1899. And he was always a laborer of one kind or another. I have a picture of him working for the subway of ew York City at one point. And he and my grandmother had a total of eight children. And thereHs one surviving child left of those, one of my aunts, a sister of my father (Hilda 3eyerson), who actually just last month had her 100th birthday, living in Florida now. 3y father passed away Muite a number of years ago as well as the remaining siblings in the family. And he lived in New York City all his life. I was raised in Brooklyn, New York City. Is that enoughB Should I go to my motherHs sideB Q: Now, what did your father do* WEI TRAUB7 3y father was also a working man all of his life. When I was growing up in Brooklyn he was a salesman in retail, first in fruit and vegetable stores, fresh produce, and then a fish store$ he used to go to the Fulton Fish 3arket once a week to pick up fresh fish. That was Muite an adventure for me at one point, when I was able to accompany him. Getting up early to go with my dad on the truck to the Fulton Fish 3arket, pick out the fresh fish and engage in the usual banter with all of his friends there that he knew J that was a great trip for a kid. And then at one point, after I was in my twenties and had moved away to graduate school, that type of work had just become too physically demanding, working with big boxes of fish loaded with ice, your hands would get sliced up as you tried to filet the fish and cut the fish. At the age of, I think he must have been around 58, I think, he asked around about less physically demanding work (he had a brother0in0law who worked for the New York City Parks Department) and he took the test and he became a bus driver for the city of New York. So he had a new path and he worked there until he retired$ he worked about seven years as a bus driver for the city of New York until he retired at .5. Q: (ell now, on your mother-s side, what do you know about her* WEI TRAUB7 Very different family. 3y motherHs family came from Greece, Muite well documented, from a town in the northwest of Greece not far from the Adriatic, not far from the border with Albania, by the name of Ioannina. And her parents emigrated to the United States around0 in the late 1890s. She had older siblings who were born in Greece$ she herself was born in New York City and her family lived in various areas of 3anhattan and Brooklyn and then eventually they settled, her family settled, across the street from where my fatherHs family had been living. So they met as youngsters or as teenagers in New York City, both born in 1910. They were married in 19E5. 3y father was a little bit old for the Second World War but he did serve, of course, he was drafted. 5 He served in the Navy. He served on a ,iberty ship. He never got overseas but he got down to Florida, went through the Panama Canal and on to the West Coast to 3onterrey so he served in the Service for a couple of years. But he was the, as he used to recount, he was kind of the old timer. Apart from the officers, among the conscripted men, the enlisted men, he was the old timer, but you know, he managed to get out alright. 3y motherHs family remained very attached to their Greek heritage, unlike my fatherHs family. 3y fatherHs family carried with them a history of a lot of discrimination, anti0 Semitism in Poland, so my father and his siblings and my grandfather never spoke much about where they came from. But as a matter of fact my motherHs family had very fond memories of growing up and living in Greece. Q: (hat type of work or business on your mother-s side* WEI TRAUB7 Her father, I think, was in some kind of manufacturing, light manufacturing, in New York City. As a matter of fact, he was Muite a philanthropist and with others he founded a synagogue in lower 3anhattan particular to the ritual practices of the Jewish people of Ioannina, which is a distinct offshoot, if you will, of certain of the religious practices.
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