Hoffenberg, Samuel, 1968 - 1978
Scope and Contents
These interviews cover much of the same material, focusing on Hartford's Jewish community in the early 1900s.
Dates
- Creation: 1968 - 1978
Creator
- Cooper, Harry, Lawyer (Interviewer, Person)
Access Restrictions
Open for research use.
Interviews
This file contains the oral history transcripts of four individual interviews. Samuel Hoffenberg was interviewed by the following: -Judge Joseph E. Klau, a friend, on September 9, 1968. -Philip Finklestein, December 13, 1972 -Matthew Magda, for the Ethnic Heritage Project, November 21, 1974. -Harry and Edith Cooper, March 12, 1978.
Full Extent
From the File: 16 Linear Feet (2 filing cabinets)
Language of Materials
English
Container Summary
Oral History Transcripts. Zachs Project Scanned Information Checklist and abstract, 1968. List of names from Plaque for Sauel Hofenberg Dinner, Dec. 11, 1933. Index to topics covered in interview with Samuel Hoffenberg for Ethnic Heritage Project, 1974.
Subject
- Title, Fanchon Hartman, 1898- (Person)
- Suisman, Edward A. (Edward Allen), 1902-1991 (Person)
Genre / Form
- Anti-Semitism
- Education
- Federation
- Great Depression
- Holocaust
- Immigration
- Jewish Education
- Jewish Ledger
- Jewish War Veterans
- Politics
- Rabbinate
- Yiddish
- oral histories (literary works)
Geographic
- Albany Avenue, Hartford, CT
- Barbour Street, Hartford, CT
- Bloomfield Avenue, Hartford, CT
- Blue Hills Avenue, Hartford, CT
- Elizabeth Park, Hartford, CT
- Front Street, Hartford, CT
- Garden Street, Hartford, CT
- Governer Street, Hartford, CT
- Hartford, CT
- Israel
- Main Street, Hartford, CT
- Market Street, Hartford, CT
- Middle East
- Palestine
- Pearl Street, Hartford, CT
- Russia
- Second North School
- State Street, Hartford, CT
- Temple Street, Hartford, CT
- Vine Street, Hartford, CT
- Washington Street, Hartford, CT
- Windsor Street, Hartford, CT
- Winthrop Street, Hartford, CT
- Wooster Street, Hartford, CT
Occupation
- Businesses & Professions -- Banker
- Businesses & Professions -- Builders
- Businesses & Professions -- Dry Goods
- Businesses & Professions -- Insurance
- Businesses -- Real Estate (Landlord)
- Factories
- rabbis
Topical
- Ados Israel (Market St. Shul, moved to Pearl St.)
- Agudas Achim (Rumanishe Shul)
- American Jewish Committee
- American Jewish Congress
- Anti-Defamation League
- B'nai B'rith
- B'nai Zion
- Balfour Declaration of 1917
- Barnard-Brown Schools
- Beth David
- Beth El Temple
- Beth Hamedrash Hagodol (Garden Street Synagogue)
- Beth Hillel
- Beth Sholom
- Blacks -- Relations with Jews
- Businesses & Professions -- Lawyer
- Businesses -- Clothing/Tailors
- Businesses -- Grocery
- Chesed Shel Emeth
- Chesed Shel Emeth (Hebrew Burial Association)
- Chesed Shel Emeth (Hebrew Ladies' Sheltering Home)
- Chevry Lomday Mishnayes
- Communism
- Congregation Ohave Zedek (Wooster Street Shul)
- Connecticut State Zionist Association
- Depression Era
- Emanuel Synagogue
- Ethnicities of Hartford
- G. Fox & Co.
- Growing up Jewish
- Growing up Jewish in Hartford
- Growing up Jewish in Lithuania
- Growing up Jewish in Russia
- Growing up in Hartford
- Growing up in Russia
- Hadassah
- Hartford Public High School
- Hartford Public Schools
- Hebrew Home for Children
- Hebrew Institute of Hartford
- Hebrew Ladies' Old People's Association
- Immigrant(s)
- Intermarriage
- Jewish Community
- Jewish Community Members
- Jewish Continuity Community Council
- Jewish Federation
- Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford
- Jewish Life in Hartford
- Jewish Organizations
- Jewish Welfare Board
- Jewish Women
- Jews, Russian
- Keeping Kosher/Kashrut
- Keren Hayesod (Palestine Foundation Fund)
- Life in Russia
- Maccabean
- Mikveh
- Mikveh Bess Israel and Mikveh
- Mizrachi
- Morgan Street
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- Peddlers
- Philanthropy
- Pioneer Women
- Pleasant Street, Hartford, CT
- Pogroms
- Religious Celebration
- Religious Education
- Religious Life
- Russian Revolution
- Socialism
- Sons and Daughters of Herzl
- South End Talmud Torah
- Talmud Torah
- Teaching Judaism
- Teferes Israel
- Temple Beth Israel
- United Jewish Charities of Hartford
- United Synagogues of Greater Hartford
- Vine Street School
- War Veterans
- World History
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945
- Yeshiva of Hartford
- Young Israel
- Zionism
- Zionist Organization of America
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository