Savitt, William, Jeweler (Springfield, MA)
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Kellin, Samuel, March 21, 1973
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
Topics covered in this interview include: B'nai Brith, Ararat Lodge, Jewish community (relations with German vs. Russian Jews, Jewish education, Jewish students at UCONN and Trinity (Hillel), family history, Great Depression, World War II, Hartford Circus Fire & death of his daughter Shirley and a nephew in it, adoption, politics, flood of 1955, antisemitism, McCarthy Era and it's effects on local Jews, Jewish women, Jewish humor/entertaining.
Dates:
March 21, 1973
Kellin, Samuel_1973/3/21, Oral History, March 21, 1973
Item — Box OHC-2, Box: 15, Box: 1-2
Identifier: 45
Scope and Contents
Topics covered in this interview include: Growing up Jewish in Hartford, Working organizations, collecting money, B'nai Brith, Ararat Lodge, Jewish community (relations with German vs. Russian Jews, Jewish education, Jewish students at UCONN and Trinity (Hillel), family history, Great Depression, Home during World War II, son in navy, Hartford Circus Fire & death of his daughter Shirley and a nephew in it, adoption, politics, flood of 1955, antisemitism, McCarthy Era and it's effects on...
Dates:
March 21, 1973
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- Subject: Flood of 1955 X
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- B'nai B'rith 3
- Businesses -- Clothing/Tailors 3
- Comedy 3
- Communism 3
- Depression Era 3
- Emanuel Synagogue 3
- Family 3
- Family History 3
- Family Life in Hartford 3
- Floods 3
- German Jews 3
- Great Depression 3
- Habonim Club 3
- Hartford, CT 3
- Immigrant(s) 3
- Immigration 3
- Israel 3
- Israel Bonds 3
- Jewish Community 3
- Jewish Education 3
- Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford 3
- Jewish Life in New York 3
- Jewish Women 3
- Jews, Russian 3
- New York 3
- Peddlers 3
- Pleasant Street, Hartford, CT 3
- Politics 3
- Rabbinate 3
- Red Cross 3
- Religious Celebration 3
- Religious Life 3
- Talmud Torah 3
- Trinity College 3
- Trinity Hillel 3
- World War, 1939-1945 3
- Yiddish 3
- Zionism 3
- oral histories (literary works) 3
- rabbis 3
- Great Hartford Circus Fire 2
- Growing up in Hartford 2
- Hadassah 2
- Jewish Life in Hartford 2
- Mount Sinai Hospital 2
- Hartford history 1
- Jeweler 1
- Park Street, Hartford, CT 1
- Sports Hall of Fame 1