Cohen, Emma Perlstein (Hartford, CT)
Person
Found in 171 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
Importance of Oral History_/Unknown/, Oral Event History
Item — Box 7, Box: 128
Identifier: 128
Scope and Contents
Subjects: Introduction by Emma Cohen: About the Interviews
Landy about how to keep history, the importance of it
Speakers: Susan Landy, Emma Cohen
Dates:
1968 - 2018
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: M 5
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford records
Collection
Identifier: M 4
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the records, correspondence, newsletters, photographs, and other materials which document the functions and activities of the Jewish Historical Society. The bulk of the collection covers the 1990s to the present. Much of the collection relates JHSGH's programs, exhibits, tours, and other projects.
Dates:
1978 - 2018
Additional filters:
- Subject
- 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