Kriwitzky, Aaron_1972/08/13, Oral History
Digital Record
Identifier: kriwitzky, aaron_1972.pdf
Dates
- Creation: 1972 - 2011
Creator
- Cohen, Emma Perlstein (Hartford, CT) (Person)
Interviewer
Emma Cohen
Language of Materials
English
General Physical Description note
Box 2: cassette tape # 35, side one, two (Also see tape 138) w/ written Transcript w/ copy
Scope and Contents note
Subjects of interview include: Kriwitzky's early life in Poland; immigration to the United States after World War 1; teaching Hebrew and the Bible in Hartford; Preparing boys for Bar Mitzvah; Various rabbis and synagogues; lack of religious conviction of Jewish community in early 20th century; Financial support for Zionism; Kriwitzky's Yiddish poetry; Purim; travel to Israel; seeing the Western Wall and the Yad Vashem.
Subject
- Lindenthal, Haskel, Rabbi, 1916- (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Garden Street, Hartford, CT
- Israel
- Nelson Street, Hartford, CT
- Poland
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Winthrop Street, Hartford, CT
Occupation
Topical
- Ados Israel (Market St. Shul, moved to Pearl St.)
- Agudas Achim (Rumanishe Shul)
- B'nai Jacob Synagogue
- Bar Mitzvah
- Bellevue Street, Hartford, CT
- Businesses & Professions -- Salesman
- Immigrant(s)
- Jewish Life in Hartford
- Pioneer Women
- Poetry
- Talmud Torah
- Teaching Hebrew in Hartford
- Temple Beth Israel
- World War, 1914-1918
- Yad Vashem - Jerusalem
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository