Kessler, Irving, Assistant Director/Executive Director of the Hartford Jewish Federation (Massachusetts)
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Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Hoffman, Lorraine and Bob, Oral History, November 9, 1995
Item — Box 28, Box: 547
Identifier: 547
Scope and Contents
This file contains an oral history transcript detailing Robert and Lorraine Hoffman's time in the Hartford area where they grew up as well as their lives in Israel.
Dates:
November 9, 1995
Hoffman, Robert and Lorraine, 1971 - 1995
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
This file contains a newspaper article on the Hoffman family's aliyah to Israel in the 1970s, a breif biographical sketch, and an oral history transcript detailing Robert and Lorraine Hoffman's time in the Hartford area where they grew up as well as their lives in Israel.
Dates:
1971 - 1995
Hurwitz, Joe_2004, Oral History, September 22, 2004
File — Box 36, Box: 915
Identifier: 0014 001 001915
Scope and Contents
This interview focuses on Hurwitz's time in the Korean War as well as his involvementin the Hartford Jewish community and the Federation.
Dates:
September 22, 2004
Hurwitz, Joseph, 1955 - 2008
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
The 2004 interview focuses on Hurwitz's time in the Korean War as well as his involvement in the Hartford Jewish community and the Federation. The additional materials in the file speak to these topics and well.The topics covered in the 2006 interview include: Family history/his children. His childhood growing up Jewish in Hartford. His grandfather Rabbi Isaac Hurwitz (Hurewitz). his Bar Mitzvah at the Emanuel in Hartford. Zionism in Connecticut. Emanuel renting out space in...
Dates:
1955 - 2008
Kessler, Irving*, 1975 - 2010
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
This file contains documentation of Irving Kessler’s career as Hartford Jewish Federation Director as well as his work for United Israel Appeal and other Jewish organizations. It also contains information about various JHSGH programs he participated in. 1975 Interview Subjects of the interview include: Parents coming from Gubernia (border between Poland and Russia), arrived in United States in their teens before World War I. Growing up...
Dates:
1975 - 2010
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