Jewish Agricultural Society
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Goldman, Robert, 1944 - 2013
File — Flat_file_folder 2
Interview
Family history in Europe and in New York/CT (father from Brest-Litovsk in Poland and mother from Baranovitch, Lithuania)
Father’s family had farm in Hebron from 1910-17, father moved to NY after there was a fire, though Robert’s Grandfather and uncle remained. In the late 1920s, his father (along with him and his mother) returned to the Hebron farm and later moved to Woodstock.
Life on the farm.
Dealing with anti-Semitism/KKK/living in a town with a small Jewish population in...
Dates:
1944 - 2013
Goldman, Robert_1985,Oral History, December 4, 1985
Item — Box 21, Box: 378
Identifier: 378
Interview
Family history in Europe and in New York/CT (father from Brest-Litovsk in Poland and mother from Baranovitch, Lithuania)
Father’s family had farm in Hebron from 1910-17, father moved to NY after there was a fire, though Robert’s Grandfather and uncle remained. In the late 1920s, his father (along with him and his mother) returned to the Hebron farm and later moved to Woodstock.
Life on the farm.
Dealing with anti-Semitism/KKK/living in a town with a small Jewish population in...
Dates:
December 4, 1985
Goldstein, Ellie_1977/8/15, Oral History, August 15, 1977
Item — Box 9, Box: unknown container
Identifier: 164
Scope and Contents
Subjects covered during interview include: Ellie about his father, Abraham Goldstein (Zionism)
Dates:
August 15, 1977
Kiotic, Sol, August 14, 2003
File — Flat_file_folder 4
Scope and Contents
Topics discussed in this interview are: how Sol Kiotic's family came to America and got involved in farming, his experience growing up in Lebanon, CT on a farm, his educational opportunities, his career as a farmer, the Jewish community of Lebanon/Colchester (including the slight impact of Zionism, not experiencing anti-semitism, that his family gave the land for the Lebanon synagogue), and how life changed in the area over the years.Also mentioned are the Liebman and Himmelstein...
Dates:
August 14, 2003
Kiotic, Sol_2003, Oral History, August 14, 2003
File — Box 31, Box: 647
Identifier: 0014 001 001647
Scope and Contents
Topics discussed in this interview are: how Sol Kiotic's family came to America and got involved in farming, his experience growing up in Lebanon, CT on a farm, his educational opportunities, his career as a farmer, the Jewish community of Lebanon/Colchester (including the slight impact of Zionism, not experiencing anti-semitism, that his family gave the land for the Lebanon synagogue), and how life changed in the area over the years.Also mentioned are the Liebman and Himmelstein...
Dates:
August 14, 2003
Maskel, undated
File — Flat_file_folder 5
Scope and Contents
Folder 1 contains: Correspondence; handwritten note; news clippings; photocopies of news clippings; photocopy of certificate of membership in INternational Mark Twin Society; various play scripts for TV and Radio as written and performed by Maskell's class; poetry; essays; photo of grave of Dag Hammarskjold; sheet music written in memory of Dag Hammarskjold; "The Meaning of Freedom and Responsibility of Judaism" monography by Abarahn I. Kaish; essay by Anna Maskel.Folder 2...
Dates:
undated
Towns/Eastern Connecticut/Research Papers/Gordon, Morton L. The History of the Jewish farmer in Eastern Connecticut. Yeshiva University, 1975. Includes Ellington, Rockville, Willimantic, Colombia, Chestnut Hill, Hebron, Lebanon, Amston, Colchester, Moodus, chesterfield, Woodstock, Putnam, Pomfret, Abington, Killingly, Danielson, Brooklyn, Moosup, Plainfield, Jewett City, Norwich, New London, Madison, Guildford, New Haven, and Hartford. 2 copies., 1975-1975
File — Box 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Most of the material in this collection was generated as a result of a survey of Jewish farms in Connecticut jointly undertaken in 1995-1998 by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford and the Connecticut Historical Commission. Other material related to Jewish farms in Connecticut has been added since that time. The collection includes photographs of individual farms, farmers, and farm buildings, oral histories, and newspaper articles regarding local farm families and businesses....
Dates:
1975-1975