Cohen, Emma Perlstein (Hartford, CT)
Person
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
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
Hyman, Louis, October, 1968
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
This interview covers Hyman's life as a weaver in Shisluwitz(?) and Bialystock, his immigration to join his parents in North Daktota, and his move to Hartford to join his wife's family who settled there. He also discusses his involvement in peddling and wholesaling, as well as his participation in the Jewish community at the Garden Street Synogogue and through oxies. His parents made Aliyah sometime before 1914, fulfilling the dream they had when Hyman's father initially left Europe....
Dates:
October, 1968
Hyman, Louis_1968, Oral History, October, 1968
Item — Box OHC-1, Box: 12, Box: 1-2
Identifier: 19
Scope and Contents
This interview covers Hyman's life as a weaver in Shisluwitz(?) and Bialystock, his immigration to join his parents in North Daktota, and his move to Hartford to join his wife's family who settled there. He also discusses his involvement in peddling and wholesaling, as well as his participation in the Jewish community at the Garden Street Synogogue and through oxies. His parents made Aliyah sometime before 1914, fulfilling the dream they had when Hyman's father initially left Europe....
Dates:
October, 1968
Kashmann, Beatrice , March 22, 1972
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
This interview covers Beatrice Kashmann's experience moving from Bridgeport to Hartford, which included becoming much more active in the Jewish community through Jewish Women’s Organizations, particularly in the Deborah Society (a group which was local, never national). Also covered are various charities which helped immigrants among others. Participated in the suffrage movement.She also discusses things like her involvement singing in musical groups and Sisterhood, family life,...
Dates:
March 22, 1972
Kashmann, Beatrice_1972, Oral History, March 22, 1972
Item — Box OHC-1, Box: 17, Box: 2
Identifier: 27
Scope and Contents
Subjects of interview include: Family, Jewish Women Organizations, singing, Charity, ImmigrantsThis interview covers Beatrice Kashmann's experience moving from Bridgeport to Hartford, which included becoming much more active in the Jewish community through Jewish Women’s Organizations, particularly in the Deborah Society (a group which was local, never national). Also covered are various charities which helped immigrants among others. Participated in the suffrage movement....
Dates:
March 22, 1972
Kashmann, Seymour, March 22, 1972
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
Topics of interview include life growing up in Hartford and in Jewish community, family grocery/meat business (did not sell kosher meat, eventually ate their own meat because it was better than the Kosher meat. Member at Temple Beth Israel. Married wife in Bridgeport with Rabbi Elkin and the rabbi his mother in law wanted. Active in Jewish organizatons in Hartford, including cemetary committee and was one of the incorporators of Mt. Sinai Hospital. Discussion of Jews in politics...
Dates:
March 22, 1972
Kashmann, Seymour_1972, Oral History, March 22, 1972
Item — Box OHC-1, Box: 17, Box: 1
Identifier: 26
Abstract
GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONTape No.: 26
No. of Tapes:
Name of Interviewee: Seymour Kashmann
Date of Interview: March 22, 1972
Occupation: Meat Market Owner
Date of Birth: circa 1880
Place of Birth: Hartford, CT
Transcript (yes/no): yes
No. of Pages: 23Abstract:
Mr. Kashmann’s father came to the U.S. from Germany before 1875. He was married in Hartford and had two sons and three daughters. In Germany he dealt in...
Dates:
March 22, 1972
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- Immigrant(s) 13
- Jewish Education 13
- Jewish Life in Hartford 13
- Temple Beth Israel 11
- Family History 10
- Immigration 10
- oral histories (literary works) 10
- Rabbinate 9
- Religious Life 9
- Anti-Semitism 8
- Education 8
- Hartford Public High School 8
- Hartford Public Schools 8
- Politics 8
- Religious Celebration 8
- Religious Education 8
- Agudas Achim (Rumanishe Shul) 7
- Family Life in Hartford 7
- Hartford, CT 7
- Israel 7
- Jewish Community 7
- World War, 1914-1918 7
- B'nai B'rith 6
- Bridgeport, CT 6
- Businesses & Professions -- Teaching 6
- German Jews 6
- Hartford Board of Education 6
- Ados Israel (Market St. Shul, moved to Pearl St.) 5
- Bar Mitzvah 5
- Bellevue Street, Hartford, CT 5
- Family Life 5
- Front Street, Hartford, CT 5
- Garden Street, Hartford, CT 5
- Germany 5
- Hadassah 5
- Keeping Kosher/Kashrut 5
- Main Street, Hartford, CT 5
- Market Street, Hartford, CT 5
- Mount Sinai Hospital 5
- Pogroms 5
- Talmud Torah 5
- Tel Aviv, Israel 5
- Agriculture & Farming 4
- Albany Avenue, Hartford, CT 4
- Beth Hamedrash Hagodol (Garden Street Synagogue) 4
- Jewish life in Europe 4
- Palestine 4
- Zionism 4
- B'nai Jacob Synagogue 3
- Barnard-Brown Schools 3
- Bulkeley High School 3
- Bushnell Park 3
- Businesses & Professions -- Salesman 3
- Businesses & Professions -- Social Work 3
- Businesses -- Department Stores 3
- Businesses -- Grocery 3
- Businesses -- Meat Distributors 3
- Cemetery 3
- Deborah Society 3
- Farming: Livestock 3
- Growing up in Hartford 3
- Hebrew Home Auxiliary 3
- Kosher Products 3
- Language 3
- League of Women Voters 3
- Mount Sinai Women's Auxiliary 3
- Music 3
- Music -- Synagogues 3
- Nelson Street, Hartford, CT 3
- Passover 3
- Pioneer Women 3
- Poetry 3
- Poland 3
- Principal 3
- Purim 3
- Sisterhood 3
- Teaching Hebrew in Hartford 3
- United Jewish Charities of Hartford 3
- United Order of True Sisters 3
- Washington Street, Hartford, CT 3
- Weddings 3
- Winthrop Street, Hartford, CT 3
- Women's Suffrage 3
- Yad Vashem - Jerusalem 3
- "Max and His Rose" 2
- Aliyah 2
- American Jewish Committee 2
- American Jewish Congress 2
- Awards 2
- Baron De Hirsch 2
- Blacks -- Relations with Jews 2
- Blue Hills Avenue, Hartford, CT 2
- Businesses & Professions -- Lawyer 2
- Businesses & Professions -- Textiles 2
- Businesses -- Clothing/Tailors 2
- Businesses -- Coal 2
- Businesses -- Farming 2
- Businesses -- Retail 2
- Businesses -- Wholesale 2