Cohen, Emma Perlstein (Hartford, CT)
Person
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
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
Heilpern, George_1979, Oral History, March 21, 1979
Item — Box 11, Box: unknown container
Identifier: 199
Abstract
GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONTape No.: 199
No. of Tapes:
Name of Interviewee: George S. Heilpern
Date of Interview: March 21, 1979
Occupation: Photographer, businessman
Date of Birth: July 4, 1913
Place of Birth: Hartford, CT
Transcript (yes/no): Yes
No. of Pages: 32Abstract: Mr. Heilpern’s father, Joseph S., came to the United States in 1890 from Brody, which was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire on the...
Dates:
March 21, 1979
History of the Jewish Historical Society_1974/9/22, Oral Event History
Digital Record
Identifier: history of jhsgh_1974
History of the Jewish Historical Society_1974/9/22, Oral Event History, 1974 - 1974
Item — Box 5, Box: 89
Identifier: 89
Scope and Contents
Subjects:History of the Jewish Historical Society (condensed)
History of the Hartford Jewish Community (condensed)
Recorded before showing of Hartford Jews 1900-1925
Speakers: Emma Cohen, Laurel Vlock and Zelda Gersten
Dates:
1974 - 1974
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
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: M 5
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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- World War, 1939-1945 4
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- Bellevue Street, Hartford, CT 3
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- Hadassah 3
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- Jewish Daily Forward [Forverts] 3
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- Keney Park (Hartford, Conn.) 3
- Kosher Products 3
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- Lectures 3
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- Nazis/ Nazi Germany 3
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- Pogroms 3
- Religious Education 3
- Sage Allen Department Store 3
- Socialism 3
- Sports -- Dancing 3
- Teachers College of Connecticut 3
- Volunteer 3
- Workmen's Circle 3
- Yiddishkeit 3
- photographs 3
- pre-Nazi Germany 3
- "Max and His Rose" 2
- Beth David 2
- Businesses & Professions -- Restauranteur 2
- Businesses & Professions -- Teaching 2
- Christianity 2
- Gravestones 2
- Hartford Conservatory 2
- Hartford culture 2