Farming\Jewish Farmers
Dates
- Creation: 1907-2009
Language of Materials
English
Daniel zFine Photo Information
Here's one for the files: Gitlin Farm on Chestnut Hill Rd., Colchester --My Mom's family -- this was a farm and kuchelain. All these people were aunts, uncles and first cousins of mine left to right from the front: Milton Gitlin, Arnold Hurwit, Carl Hurwit (Hurwit and Simons and W.H. town council member Murray Gitlin (was a Martha Graham Dancer and production stage Manager for "Boys in the Band", Cloud Nine, Sammy Cahn Story, Blythe Spirit -- all on Broadway and Max Gitlin his Father 3rd row Murray Gitlin -- author, Joyce Gitlin (his daughter), Sara and Sam Gitlin (our grandparents) , Ida Gitlin Davidson on the porch: Bernie Gitlin (owned Bernard Gitlin Sporting Goods in Hartford), Beatrice Gitlin Fine (my Mother)?, Anya Gitlin (Max's wife), Jim and Mary Hurwit (owned Hurwit Hardware), Frances Davidson Jacobs. The two men are Max Cooper, Ben Cooper's Father and his Father Fetta Munya (Morris Cooper)with Mary Hurwit behind.. The women to the left are Tante Bunya (Morris Cooper's sister ). Fetta Munya (Morris) and Tanta Bunya were brother and sister to my Grandmother Sara Cooper Gitlin
118 photos/images
Marion Major's farmer photos (folder)
(lr) Gershon, Sarah, Lewis, Thomas, Beatrice, Julius Merkin c1929
Abraham Leon Greenberg Homestead on Mill Rd, Farmington, CT Purchased 1897, sold 1913
Abraham Leon Greenberg, Farmington, CT b 1847, d 1907
abraham_leon_greenberg
baron de hirsch
Bringing Hay into the Barn, Sadek Farm, n.d.
Celia Dember, Farmer & Boarding house owner, Colchester, CT n.d.
Cohen_Anna Cohen
Cohen_baby chicks with gas brooders
Cohen_Congregation Agudas Achim, built in 1927
Cohen_coop constructed c1942
Cohen_coop constructed c1945
Cohen_free range chickens
Cohen_Martin cohen in front of the cow barn, 1938
Cohen_Marty and his wife, Dorothy on the occasion of his 89th birthday, 2009
Cohen_Private Tom Cohen, discharged from US Army, 1918
Cohen_the cow barn with milk house and milk can in foreground
Cohen_tom and anna cohen, wedding picture 1919
Cohen_tom cohen the butcher peddling meat to a customer
Cohen_tom cohen the farmer with bull
Colchester scene
colchester, steamworks of the hayward rubber co
colchester_merchantsrow
colchester_s+sleathercompany_office
colchester_s+sleatherfactory
Dember_Dember's Elmwood House
Dember_Grandpa Dember 80 years old, 1944
Dember_Mr. Dember, Colchester resident and owner of hotel
Dember_Zada Barnett Dember, 1936, shoemaker in Colchester center near green
Dembers Farm, Colchester, CT Grampa Dember, Gramma Dember, Ester & Frances 1933
Dembers Farm, Colchester, CT, n.d.
fair_view_hotel_colchester
farming-book-cover-sm
Father -Ben Dember, Colchester, CT 1944
father_behlember
Fine, Daniel_Gitlin Farm on Chestnut Hill Rd., Colchester
gitman, samuel and sarah
Goldstein_chickens on the Goldstein farm, Pachaug, late 1920s or early 1930s
Goldstein_Erwin and his mother, Rose, Pachaug c1930
Goldstein_Erwin Goldstein at the chicken house on farm in Pachaug, CT ca1938
Goldstein_Erwin goldstein on frontstoop in Brooklyn NY, June 1933
Goldstein_George goldstein on farm, Pachaug c1930s
Goldstein_Goldstein housein Pachaug, summer of 1943 and Goldstein barn between 1940 and mid-1960s
Goldstein_jacob Goldstein, right, and his brother on pasture along Goldstein farm about the early 1930s
Goldstein_Janice Kurs and Erwin Goldstein-cousins-Pasture behind garden about 1938
Goldstein_Vinnie Goldstein, Uncle Benjamin's wife, Pachaug c1938
Greenberg_the old cadwell homestead, res. abraham l. greenberg
Jewish_Farmer_magazine
Joe Sadek Farm, Lisbon, CT
Kalmon Bercowetz (left) bringing cattle from Chicago to Bloomfield, 1930s
Kalmon_Bercowetz_Bloomfield
lebanon_synagogue1946
Lebanonfarm_Schwartz
Leon Simon on load, Sam Schwartz, father below, Lebanon, CT n.d.
Life-of-the-Land-book-cover
Little Girl, c 1930
Man in Field, Lisbon, CT n.d.
Man tilling land with horse, n.d.
Man with Horse, Lisbon, CT n.d.
merchantrow_colchester
merkin_family
Miss Malchen Simon -busy with heifers, Lebanon, CT 1946
Mr Schwartz feeding Poultry, Lebanon, CT 1946
Nassau_Henrietta Virshup and her husband Hyman, Somers farm, ca. late 1940s
Nassau_Milton Virshup and his wife Mickey, Somers farm, ca. late 1940s
Nassau_Milton Virshup, Somers farm ca1940s
postcard_fairviewhotel_colchester
Rashell and Cantor Farm_cows, chickens and hay loft
S&S_LeatherCo_factory
S&S_LeatherCo_office
S.&S. leather co. outing
Sadek farm, Lisbon_cows
Sadek farm, Lisbon_sheep
Salowitz_Smith Homestead BrideBrook Rd Niantic CT, c1895
Salowitz_Smith homestead, East Lyme c1895
Salowitz_the Salowitz barn, east lyme 2009
Salowitz_the salowitz farmhouse with development in background, East Lyme, 2009
Sarah Rostow, Farmer Girl in Bloomfield, CT 1913
sarah_rostow
20 slide negatives -- Selvinslide
selvinslide_farmer
selvinslide_farmhouse
selvinslide_haystack
selvinslide_horsedrawncarriage
Shelters - Rashell & Cantor Farm, Ellington, CT n.d.
synagogue_in_lebanon_1946
unidentified group
unidentified scene on porch
Woman feeding chickens, n.d.
Subject
- Simon, Leon (Person)
- Simon, Malchen (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Colchester, CT
- East Lyme, CT
- Ellington, CT
- Farmington, CT
- Lebanon, CT
- Libson, CT
- Niantic, CT
- Pachaug, CT
Occupation
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository