Maskel, Anna_1981/02/05, Oral History

Tape #239 2t, 4s, 120 mins Interviwee: Maskel, Anna R. Interviwer: Gloria Bein Date: 2/81 and 3/4/81 Place: maskel Home, WH See written summary by Anna Maskel

Subjects of interview include: Immigration, jewish immigration, Jewish diaspora, accomplishments of ancestors, unhappy toil in New York City, moving to farms in Connecticut; raising cash crops; Knesset Israel Synagogue; the relationship of Judaism to farm life in Connecticut; Zionism; the change of Jewish families from extended to Nuclear; how farm life worked in Windsor at the time; anti-semitism stoked by the radio program of Father Coughlin; education and teaching; World War II; UNICEF and the United Nations; Eleanor Roosevelt; universal human rights; Nehru's response to Kruschev; Carl Sandburg; poetry.