Levine, I. Oscar
Dates
- Creation: undated
Biographical / Historical
Oscar Levine was interviewed by Gloria Bein in Levine's home in West Hartford, Connecticut, on june 27, 1989.
General Note
Contents of folders 1 and 3 include: oral history transcript and notes. Contents of folder 2 include: programs for gala dinners at Emanuel Synagogue; programs for Emanuel Synagogue's 25th anniversary celebration; news clippings mostly related to anniversary celebration; black and white photocopies of news clippings; issues of Hartford Jewish Federation's "Federation News" newsletter.
General Note
Subjects of interview include: Hartford family life; history of Jewish neighborhoods in Hartford in the early 20th century; responsibility for arguing in favor expansion of Eminent Domain law; construction of Jewish schools in Hartford; attendance of Yale University; the construction of Weaver High School; the study of Hebrew; Addos Irael and its loss to the 1936 flood; joining Emanuel Synagogue; fundraising for good causes; World War II; the relationship fo the war to Synagogue attendance; early years of the Hartford Hewish Federation; anti-semitism during the war; Levine's children and their whereabouts as of 1989.
Subject
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Front Street, Hartford, CT
- Keney Park (Hartford, Conn.)
- North End -- Hartford, CT
- State Street, Hartford, CT
Occupation
Topical
- American Judaism
- Businesses & Professions -- Lawyer
- Emanuel Synagogue
- Ethnicities of Hartford
- Family Life in Hartford
- Flood of 1936
- Fundraisers
- Hartford Jewish Welfare Fund
- Hartford history
- Hebrew School
- Immigrant(s)
- Israel Bonds
- Jewish Community Center
- Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford
- National conference of Christians and Jews
- Philanthropy
- South End Talmud Torah
- Sports -- Baseball
- Synagogues -- Hartford
- Talmud Torah
- War Veterans
- Weaver High School
- World War, 1939-1945
- Yale University
- Zionism
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository