Cohen, Emma Perlstein (Hartford, CT)
Found in 171 Collections and/or Records:
Perlstein, Sarah_1980/7/8, Oral History, July 8, 1980
Subjects covered during interview include: Parents, New Haven, (Jewish) education, Zionism, sports, Sunday school, balls, Silvermans, Emanuel, Sunday School, Hadassah
Pessin, Celia, undated
Celie discusses with Emma Cohen growing up in Hartford, organizations (such as Hadassah), the Jewish Community, Working with Mother with the Sick Education, Nursing children, and Family. She also talks about her Son fighting in WWII. The start of the interview includes Cohen listing off Pessin's Honors.
Pessin, Celie_1968/09/03, Oral History, September 3, 1968
Subjects of interview include: (Cohen lists Pessin's Honors) growing up in Hartford organizations (Hadassah), Jewish Community, Working with Mother with the Sick Education, Nursing children, Family, husband/mother sick. Son in WWII
Pregozen, Marcia and Harry, undated
Subjects of 1972 interview include: early life in Russia; Jewish experience of Russian revloution; pogroms; immigration to America; Work as floor-cleaner in Hartford; work of Pioneer Women.
Subjects of 1975 interview include all that and: Ethnic relations in Hartford; early education; languages spoken at home; languages learned to survive World War i; Israel; experience of immigration; family life; marriage; intermarriage; New Deal programs.
Rabinovitz, Benjamin_1979/1/1, Oral History, January 1, 1979
Subjects covered during interview include:
Family, Education, Work, Growing up Jewish in Hartford, UConn, congregations Zionism, Jewish Organizations
significant portions of this tape are unintelligable
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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