Nelson, Simeon-Samuel
Digital Record
Identifier: nelson, simeon samuel_1972
Dates
- Creation: undated
Biographical / Historical
Simeon Nelson was interviewed by Sylvia Sheketoff in 1972.
General Note
Subjects of interview include: early life in Russia; process of immigration out of Haburg; education in New York City; work as a pharmacist in Hartford; over-the-counter medicines of the early 1900s; other small businesses in Hartford; qualifications to become a phramacist in Connecticut in the early 1900s; early telephones and their opreators; interest in music; attendance of theater; rise of anti-semitism in the United States; photography; the disintegration of parental authority over children.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Occupation
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository