Gaster, Berthold, Editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger (Vienna) (1926-1992)
Person
"Memories of Bert Gaster – a “mensch” who nurtured the Connecticut Jewish Ledger"
See http://www.jewishledger.com/2014/08/memories-of-bert-gaster-a-mensch-who-nurtured-the-connecticut-jewish-ledger/
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
AvRutick, Abraham_1974/6/19, Oral History, June 19, 1974
Item — Box OHC-4, Box: 2, Box: 1-2
Identifier: 72
Scope and Contents
Subjects of interview include: Growing up Jewish/His Rabbinate, Hartford Jewish Community, larger Jewish Community
Dates:
June 19, 1974
Cohen, Morris_1973/9/17, Oral History, September 17, 1973
Item — Box OHC-2, Box: 23, Box: 1-2
Identifier: 55
Scope and Contents
Subjects of interview include: Moving to America, Anti-semitism in Torrington, Hartford Jewish Community, Work, College, Careers for Jews, Zionism, Politics, Legislation
Dates:
September 17, 1973
Commemorations newspaper clippings, 1980s, 1979-11-01-1991-03-07
File
Identifier: 14428
Scope and Contents
A sizable collection of Holocaust commemoration related newspaper articles, featuring many notable activists and Jewish community leaders. Newspaper clippings from: New Yrok Times, West Hartford News, Jewish Ledger, and Hartford Courant.
Dates:
1979-11-01-1991-03-07
Commemorations newspaper clippings, 1980s, 1979-03-01-1991-03-07
File
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents
A sizable collection of Holocaust commemoration related newspaper articles, featuring many notable activists and Jewish community leaders. Newspaper clippings from: New Yrok Times, West Hartford News, Jewish Ledger, and Hartford Courant.
Dates:
1979-03-01-1991-03-07
Fishman, Robert, January 11, 2000
File — Box 1
Interview
[Possibly a handwritten abstract but handwriting is messy and often difficult to read]Activism on behalf of Soviet Jews in Maryland and Hartford, helped get Hartford into this activism and interested in helping resettle Soviet refugees in Hartford. Tricky dynamics between some activists and the early immigrants-some activists only wanted them to go to Israel/didn’t like that they would not demonstrate, but they were afraid for their families. Trip to USR to meet refuseniks....
Dates:
January 11, 2000
Fishman, Robert_2000, Oral History, January 11, 2000
File — Box 31, Box: 671
Identifier: 0014 001 001671
Interview
[Written abstract in the folder but handwriting is messy and often difficult to read.]Activism on behalf of Soviet Jews in Maryland and Hartford, helped get Hartford into this activism and interested in helping resettle Soviet refugees in Hartford. Tricky dynamics between some activists and the early immigrants-some activists only wanted them to go to Israel/didn’t like that they would not demonstrate, but they were afraid for their families. Trip to USR to meet refuseniks....
Dates:
January 11, 2000
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: M 5
Kessler, Irving*, 1975 - 2010
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
This file contains documentation of Irving Kessler’s career as Hartford Jewish Federation Director as well as his work for United Israel Appeal and other Jewish organizations. It also contains information about various JHSGH programs he participated in. 1975 Interview Subjects of the interview include: Parents coming from Gubernia (border between Poland and Russia), arrived in United States in their teens before World War I. Growing up...
Dates:
1975 - 2010
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