Kellin, Samuel
Digital Record
Identifier: kellin, samuel_1973
Dates
- Creation: March 21, 1973
Interview
Samuel Kellin was interviewed by William Singer at a meeting of the Jewish Historical Society on March 21, 1973.
General Note
Topics covered in this interview include: B'nai Brith, Ararat Lodge, Jewish community (relations with Germand vs. Russian Jews, Jewish education, family history, Great Depression, World War II, Hartford Circus Fire & death of his daughter Shirley and a nephew in it, adoption, politics, flood of 1955, antisemitism, McCarthy Era and it's effects on local Jews, Jewish women, Jewish humor/entertaining.
Subject
- Savitt, William, Jeweler (Springfield, MA) (Person)
- Chase, David Theodore, 1927-2016 (Person)
Genre / Form
- Anti-Semitism
- Arts & Entertainment
- Comedy
- Family History
- Great Depression
- Immigration
- Jewish Education
- Politics
- Rabbinate
- Red Cross
- Yiddish
- oral histories (literary works)
Geographic
Occupation
Topical
- Adoption
- Agudas Achim (Rumanishe Shul)
- Anti-Defamation League
- Ararat Lodge
- B'nai B'rith
- Businesses -- Clothing/Tailors
- Communism
- Depression Era
- Emanuel Synagogue
- Family
- Family Life
- Family Life in Hartford
- Flood of 1955
- Floods
- German Jews
- Habonim Club
- Hadassah
- Immigrant(s)
- Israel Bonds
- Jewish Community
- Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford
- Jewish Life in New York
- Jewish Women
- Jews, Russian
- Peddlers
- Pleasant Street, Hartford, CT
- Religious Celebration
- Religious Life
- Talmud Torah
- Trinity College
- Trinity Hillel
- World War, 1939-1945
- Zionism
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository