Kashmann, Beatrice_1972, Oral History, March 22, 1972

Item — Box: OHC-1, Box: 17, Box: 2

Identifier: 27

Scope and Contents

Subjects of interview include: Family, Jewish Women Organizations, singing, Charity, Immigrants

This interview covers Beatrice Kashmann's experience moving from Bridgeport to Hartford, which included becoming much more active in the Jewish community through Jewish Women’s Organizations, particularly in the Deborah Society (a group which was local, never national). Also covered are various charities which helped immigrants among others. Participated in the suffrage movement.

She also discusses things like her involvement singing in musical groups and Sisterhood, family life, and the experience in Hartford for Jews (she did not report anti-Semitism).