Cohen, Emma Perlstein (Hartford, CT)
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Oral History Tape Transcript, 1975
Transcript in good condition File has no other information
Oral history transcript, 1980
Subjects of interview include: Hartford history circa 1900; family life in Hartford; father's immigration from Austria; father's business as cattle dealer and butcher; early Jewish education and inability to go to college; husband's music career
Origins of the JHS_1972/6-7, Oral Event History, June - July, 1972
Subjects: The Origins of the Jewish Historical Society
Speakers: Emma Cohen and Joseph Harwitz
Palten, Sylvia, undated
Subjects of Interview include: Growing up Jewish in Russia before World War I; experience with a Pogrom related to the unrest of 1905; immigration to Hartford; Hartford jewish culture
Perkel, Morris, undated
Subjects of interview include: Life as jewish child in Russia; Jewish education; occupation of town by Germans in World War i; immigration to the United States; Zionism; Jewish orphans in the United States being raised non-Jewish; creation of Jewish orphanage, the Children's Orphan Home; teaching orphans; writing career; teaching at the YMHA and YWHA; Hartford Talmud Torah; Jewish literature.
Perkel, Morris_1973/7/18, Oral History, July 18, 1973
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