Cohen, Emma Perlstein (Hartford, CT)
Person
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
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
Goldman, Robert, 1944 - 2013
File — Flat_file_folder 2
Interview
Family history in Europe and in New York/CT (father from Brest-Litovsk in Poland and mother from Baranovitch, Lithuania)
Father’s family had farm in Hebron from 1910-17, father moved to NY after there was a fire, though Robert’s Grandfather and uncle remained. In the late 1920s, his father (along with him and his mother) returned to the Hebron farm and later moved to Woodstock.
Life on the farm.
Dealing with anti-Semitism/KKK/living in a town with a small Jewish population in...
Dates:
1944 - 2013
Goldman, Robert_1985,Oral History, December 4, 1985
Item — Box 21, Box: 378
Identifier: 378
Interview
Family history in Europe and in New York/CT (father from Brest-Litovsk in Poland and mother from Baranovitch, Lithuania)
Father’s family had farm in Hebron from 1910-17, father moved to NY after there was a fire, though Robert’s Grandfather and uncle remained. In the late 1920s, his father (along with him and his mother) returned to the Hebron farm and later moved to Woodstock.
Life on the farm.
Dealing with anti-Semitism/KKK/living in a town with a small Jewish population in...
Dates:
December 4, 1985
Hurwit, Doris Schwartz (also Sklarinsky)
Digital Record
Identifier: hurwit, doris schwartz (also sklarinsky)_1974
Hurwit, Doris Schwartz (also Sklarinsky), 1927 - 2001
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
Subjects of interview include: Mother's family/parents history in Europe/Connecticut, particularly their involvement in Yiddish Theater and socialism. Father worked as a Tailor/Furrier. She also discusses her childhood growing up in Hartford.
Husbands, married twice, Children
File contains various poems and short stories written by Doris Hurwitz, as well as a Yiddish poem by her mother. Also are several newspaper articles, including on where Doris models chicken soup, as well as...
Dates:
1927 - 2001
Hurwit, Doris_1974, Oral History, October 29, 1974
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 80
Abstract
GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONTape No.: 80
No. of Tapes:
Name of Interviewee: Doris Hurwitz (Mrs. James)
Date of Interview: Oct. 29,1974
Occupation:
Date of Birth: Dec. 13,1902
Place of Birth: Hartford, Ct.
Transcript (yes/no): yes
No. of Pages: 38Abstract:
A native of Hartford, Mrs. Hurwitz has written books about her childhood life in Hartford and is presently writing a book about her parents. Her father, whose original name was...
Dates:
October 29, 1974
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
Kantrowitz, Gussie, October 1968
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
Gussie Kantrowitz reflects on her connection to Sophie Tucker. Her father went to heder with Sophie Tucker's mother back in Aslev, Russia, and they met the Abuza family (Tucker's family) in Hartford through Anna, Tucker's sister.
Gussie came to Hartford when she married her husband Samuel Kantrowitz in 1912, immigrated to America from Russia with her family at the age of 10.
Dates:
October 1968
Kantrowitz, Gussie_1968, Oral History, October, 1968
Item — Box OHC-1, Box: 3, Box: 1
Identifier: 5
Abstract
GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONTape No.: 5
No. of Tapes:
Name of Interviewee: Gussie Kantrowitz (Mrs. Samuel)
Date of Interview: October, 1968
Occupation: Homemaker
Date of Birth: Circa 1895
Place of Birth: Russia
Transcript (yes/no): yes
No. of Pages: 13Abstract:
Mrs. Kantrowitz came to America at the age of 10 and with her parents settled on a farm in Willimantic, CT. She married at age 17 and moved to Hartford where her...
Dates:
October, 1968
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- Colchester, CT 7
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- Hartford Seminary 5
- Hebrew Ladies' Old People's Association 5
- Jewish families 5
- Jewish life in Europe 5
- Opera 5
- Russian Revolution 5
- Vaudeville Theater 5
- Wooster Street, Hartford, CT 5
- Yeshiva of Hartford 5
- Yiddishkeit 5
- motion picture film 5