Pregozen, Marcia and Harry
Dates
- Creation: undated
Creator
- Cohen, Emma Perlstein (Hartford, CT) (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Marcia Pregozen was interviewed by Emma Cohen on March 13th, 1972, and by Matthew Magda on april 25, 1975.
General Note
Subjects of 1972 interview include: early life in Russia; Jewish experience of Russian revloution; pogroms; immigration to America; Work as floor-cleaner in Hartford; work of Pioneer Women.
Subjects of 1975 interview include all that and: Ethnic relations in Hartford; early education; languages spoken at home; languages learned to survive World War i; Israel; experience of immigration; family life; marriage; intermarriage; New Deal programs.
General Note
Contents of folder 1 include: correspondence; newspaper clippings; photocopy of 8x10 black and white photograph "Marcia Pregozen 7/28/1960"; copy of 1972 interview; outline of 1987 interview; first two pages of transcript for 1987 interview; certificates of appreciation; photocopy of photograph of younger Marcia Pregozen "Taken in Russia 1919"; photocopies of pages written in Hebrew cursive; tattered pages of poems and songs written in Hebrew, Yiddish, and English; photocopies of newspaper clippings
Contents of folder 2 include: 2 copies of 1972 interview; 2 copies of 1975 interview
Genre / Form
Geographic
Occupation
Topical
- Agudas Achim (Rumanishe Shul)
- Beth Hillel
- Drug Store
- Ethnicities of Hartford
- Fundraisers
- Growing up in Russia
- Intermarriage
- Israel Bonds
- Jewish Community Center
- Jewish National Fund
- Labor Movement
- Labor Zionism
- Language
- Marriage
- Peddlers
- Pioneer Women
- Pogroms
- Russian Revolution
- Unions
- World War, 1914-1918
- Zionism
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository