Kagan, Marcia_1990, Oral History
Digital Record
Identifier: kagan, marcia_1990.doc
Dates
- Creation: October 14, 1990
Interview
Marcia Pessin Kagan was interviewed by Charlotte Berman on October 14, 1990.
Interview
Life in Hartford, Jewish life in Hartford, family history.
Pessin’s Deli on Windsor Street owned by her father and his brother.
A brother died in World War II
Career as a social worker
Religious life and education
Grandparents switched from Ados Israel to Agudas Achim.
This interview does NOT talk about Marcia's experience during WWII.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Occupation
Topical
- Ados Israel (Market St. Shul, moved to Pearl St.)
- Agudas Achim (Rumanishe Shul)
- Burial societies
- Businesses -- Delicatessen
- Credit Unions and Oxies
- Eastern European Jews
- Emanuel Synagogue
- Growing up Jewish
- Growing up Jewish in Hartford
- Growing up in Hartford
- Hadassah
- Hebrew Home Auxiliary
- Immigrant(s)
- Labor Lyceum
- Northwest School
- Sisterhood
- Talmud Torah
- Temple Beth Israel
- Weaver High School
- World War, 1939-1945
- Zionism
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository