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Cohen, Emma Perlstein (Hartford, CT)

 Person

Found in 171 Collections and/or Records:

American Bicentennial Exhibit_1975/9/17, Oral Event History, 1975 - 1975

 Item — Box 6, Box: 106
Identifier: 106
Scope and Contents

Subject: Opening of the American Bicentennial Exhibit

Speaker: Ella Grasso, Sylvia Sheketoff (Exhibit Chairwoman), Emma Cohen

Dates: 1975 - 1975

Batt, Minnie_1980/7/2, Oral History, July 2, 1980

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 216
Scope and Contents note

Subjects covered during interview include: Family, immigration, immigrant, Father, traveling through Europe, Cincinnati, growing up Jewish (Jewish)Education, Israel, volunteer, work, Kosher, youth organizations, Charles Batt, end first tape, cut off Young Israel, Synagogue, Hadassah, Yeshiva, Children, Grandchildren, Charles Illness, National Association of Hebrew Day School PTA, Hebrew Lessons Incomplete Transcript (Only for second Tape)

Dates: July 2, 1980

Berman, Bernice_1980/11/18, Oral History, November 18, 1980

 Item — Box 13, Box: 226
Identifier: 226
Scope and Contents note

Subjects covered during interview include: Parents, family history, Massachusetts, Music School, Zionism, Orthodox, Hadassah, Marriage, Moving around Hartford (eventually Penn Drive and Fern), in-laws, Hartford Culture, music, Hadassah, Jewish Council, Jewish War Veterans, Family, children: film and war, travel

Dates: November 18, 1980

Bodenheimer, Hans_1972/06/05, Oral History, June 5, 1972

 Item — Box OHC-1, Box: 21, Box: 1-2
Identifier: 30
Scope and Contents

Subjects of interview include: Jewish Life, Community, in Germany; Nazis, Education The Holocaust To Hartford, chutzbrief, working, congregation, Community

Dates: June 5, 1972

Bodenheimer, Rabbi Hans oral history transcript, 1972

 Item — Folder Bodenheimer
Scope and Contents From the File:

Numerous newspaper clippings are scattered and cover many topics related to his life and his role as a Rabbi in the West Hartford and Hartford communities Hardcopies of two oral history interviews: June 5, 1972 and April 10, 1980

Dates: 1972

Brand, Louis oral history transcript, 1972

 Item — Folder Brand
Scope and Contents From the File:

Clipping from newspaper is brief about a tribute from Labor Zionist Alliance to BRand Other documents are full copies of transcript from Oral History interview in 1972

Dates: 1972

Brand, Louis_1972/05/01, Oral History, May 1, 1972

 Item — Box OHC-1, Box: 20, Box: 1-2
Identifier: 28
Abstract GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONTape No.: 28 No. of Tapes:1 Name of Interviewee: Louis Brand Date of Interview: May 1, 1972 Occupation: Bakery Deliveryman Date of Birth: (Circa) 1894 Place of Birth: Purin, (Suburb of Getoma), Ukraine Transcript (yes/no): yes No. of Pages: 38Abstract: Louis Brand came to the U.S. in 1913 at age 18. Mr. Brand related his affiliation with the Poale Zion in his early years, then the Farbund in 1922. ...
Dates: May 1, 1972

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Immigration 78
Hartford, CT 72
Zionism 71
Immigrant(s) 67
Family History 66
Israel 63
oral histories (literary works) 63
Jewish Community 52
Jewish Education 46
Education 45
Agudas Achim (Rumanishe Shul) 43
Emanuel Synagogue 43
Religious Life 42
Religious Celebration 39
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford 37
Jews, Russian 37
Growing up Jewish 36
Russia 36
Hartford Public High School 34
World War, 1939-1945 34
Family Life in Hartford 33
Growing up Jewish in Hartford 33
Growing up in Hartford 33
Life in Russia 33
Yiddish 33
Anti-Semitism 31
Hartford Public Schools 31
Pogroms 30
Politics 30
Family Life 29
Jewish Life in Hartford 29
Music 29
Talmud Torah 29
Keeping Kosher/Kashrut 28
Temple Beth Israel 26
Hadassah 25
Religious Education 25
Barnard-Brown Schools 24
Palestine 24
Family 23
Growing up Jewish in Russia 23
Pleasant Street, Hartford, CT 23
Rabbinate 22
Jewish War Veterans 21
Market Street, Hartford, CT 21
World War, 1914-1918 20
Businesses & Professions -- Teaching 19
Holocaust 19
Jewish Community Center 19
War Veterans 19
Front Street, Hartford, CT 18
Orthodox Judaism 18
Peddlers 18
Windsor Street, Hartford, CT 18
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford 17
Keney Park (Hartford, Conn.) 17
Weaver High School 17
Bellevue Street, Hartford, CT 16
Beth Hamedrash Hagodol (Garden Street Synagogue) 16
Fundraisers 16
Great Depression 16
New York 16
Agriculture & Farming 15
Farming 15
Germany 15
Marriage 15
Bloomfield, CT 14
Businesses -- Grocery 14
Mount Sinai Hospital 14
Zionist Organization of America 14
rabbis 14
Ados Israel (Market St. Shul, moved to Pearl St.) 13
Beth Hillel 13
Businesses -- Farming 13
Connecticut Jewish History 13
Jewish Federation 13
New York, New York 13
Yeshiva of Hartford 13
motion picture film 13
American Jewish Congress 12
Colchester, CT 12
Garden Street, Hartford, CT 12
Growing up in Russia 12
Labor Zionism 12
North End -- Hartford, CT 12
Poland 12
Theatre, Yiddish 12
Trinity College 12
Depression Era 11
Jewish National Fund 11
Language 11
Main Street, Hartford, CT 11
Russian Revolution 11
Socialism 11
B'nai B'rith 10
Businesses & Professions -- Lawyer 10
Credit Unions and Oxies 10
Eastern European Jews 10
G. Fox & Co. 10
German refugees 10