Janice Rothschild Blumberg is an author and historian. A native of Atlanta, she has lectured at universities, museums, synagogues, and academic conferences across the country. Janice watched history unfold and then wrote about the human side of history through her perspective as an insider.
She started college at the age of 15 and graduated from the University of Georgia during World War II when she was 18. During World War II, Janice worked for the Army Corps of Engineers in the Panama Canal Zone, where they were combating malaria, and in Washington, D.C. for the Signal Corps among other jobs. During that time, she also spent some time in Mexico attending the Experiment in International Living.
When she returned to Atlanta in 1946, she met and married Jacob Rothschild, spiritual leader of The Temple when it was bombed in 1958. Janice became friends of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King and chaired landmark the Atlanta dinner honoring Nobel Peace Prize recipient Martin Luther King, Jr.,1965. During the civil rights era, Janice worked on behalf of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and served as a panelist with Coretta Scott King and others speaking to groups about “Raising Children of Good Will.”
In addition to authoring four books and contributing to numerous additional books, she has written articles for the Encyclopedia Judaica, Southern Jewish History, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Sunday Magazine, and many other publications.
After the leading the congregation through a time of transition, growth and controversy, Rabbi Rothschild died suddenly of a heart attack on New Year’s Eve in 1973. In 1975, Janice married insurance executive David Blumberg of Knoxville, Tennessee a civic leader, who served as president of B’nai B’rith International. They lived in Washington, D.C. After her second husband passed away, Janice remained in Washington, D.C. until she returned to Atlanta in 2009.
This will be an interview format, hosted by Jill Thornton!
Are you having trouble receiving the KCA Bulletins and other email communications? It appears that computer systems/servers who use Symantec are having trouble getting communications from our ClubRunner system delivered to their inboxes. While we work on this issue with ClubRunner, I have an email list serve set up through Outlook to send the bulletins out each week to those who need it. And if you are having trouble receiving your quarterly bills, I can send them to you through QuickBooks. Just email me at KiwanisClubAtlanta@gmail.com and I will add you to the list!
We have had some great speakers recently during our Kiwanis Club of Atlanta Zoom meetings! If you couldn't participate, we have saved them to the cloud or Dropbox and happy to share them with you. The list of saved meetings is below. If there is a hot link of the speaker name, you can click and view it through the web. If it is through Dropbox, send an email to KiwanisClubAtlanta@gmail.com and let us know which meetings you would like to have.
The Kiwanis Club Board of Directors voted to resume in person luncheon meetings at the Loudermilk Center beginning August 4, 2020. The Loudermilk Center has undergone extensive transformations to ensure the safety of our members, and we will have some new requirements if you plan to attend our in person events.
Welcome to Jennifer Pearson, our newest member and Social Media Guru! Jennifer, along with our Public Relations team chaired by Thornton Kennedy wants you to connect, friend and like the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta on all of our social media!
Social media is a great way to stay connected during these disconnected times. We created a Google document to update your fellow Kiwanians about what you, your companies and your organizations are doing right now.
The club is creating a contact list of Kiwanis members directly on our Zoom account to make it easier to share speaker files, distribute any data they have sent, etc. Only members that have a Zoom account can be on this contact list. If you access the Zoom meetings through a direct link, but have not downloaded the Zoom app, then I cannot add you at this time.
