Kellin, Samuel and Sophie, August, 1972
File — Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Subjects of interview include: B'Nai B'Rith, Awards, Flood of 1955, community service, Jewish education and upbringing, ethics & values, differences in Jewish/Gentile communities, adoption, retail.
Dates
- Creation: August, 1972
Access Restrictions
Open for research use.
Interview
Sam and Sophie Kellin were interviewed in their kitchen by Joan and William Singer in August, 1972.
Full Extent
From the File: 16 Linear Feet (2 filing cabinets)
Language of Materials
English
Container Summary
Oral History transcript
Genre / Form
- Anti-Semitism
- Arts & Entertainment
- Education
- Family History
- Immigration
- Jewish Education
- Jewish War Veterans
- Music
- Politics
- Red Cross
- Yiddish
- oral histories (literary works)
Geographic
- Colchester, CT
- Front Street, Hartford, CT
- Keney Park (Hartford, Conn.)
- Lower East Side
- New York, New York
- Russia
- State Street, Hartford, CT
- Wadsworth Atheneum
- Windsor Street, Hartford, CT
Occupation
- Businesses & Professions -- Junk Dealer/Scrap Metal
- Businesses & Professions -- Physician
- Businesses & Professions -- Rag Picker
- Businesses & Professions -- Teaching
- Farming: Livestock-Chicken
Topical
- Adoption
- American Jewish Committee
- American Jewish Congress
- Asylum Avenue, Hartford, CT
- B'nai B'rith
- B'nai B'rith Women
- Bond Hotel
- Boy Scouts of America
- Brotherhood
- Businesses & Professions -- Lawyer
- Businesses -- Clothing/Tailors
- Businesses -- Retail
- Community Chest
- Discrimination
- Emanuel Synagogue
- Family Life
- Family Life in Hartford
- Flood of 1955
- Floods
- Fundraisers
- G. Fox & Co.
- German Jews
- German refugees
- Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center
- Growing up Jewish
- Growing up Jewish in Hartford
- Growing up in Hartford
- Hartford Theatre
- Immigrant(s)
- Interfaith Activities
- Israel Bonds
- Jewish Community
- Jewish Life in Hartford
- Jewish Life in New York
- Jewish Youth Organizations
- Jewish families
- Jews, Russian
- Knights Organization
- Life in Russia
- Lion's Club
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- Philanthropy
- Quotas
- Religious Celebration
- Religious Education
- Religious Life
- Religious objects
- Rotary Club
- Temple Beth Israel
- UCONN Hillel
- War Veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- Yale University
- Youth Organizations
- Zionism
- Zionist Organization of America
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository