Family

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This oral history details Rachel Himmelstein's experience growing up on a farm in Lebanon, CT, as well as teaching in a one room schoolhouse in that town and in Colchester.This oral history details Rachel Himmelstein's experience growing up on a farm in Lebanon, CT, as well as teaching in a one room schoolhouse in that town and in Colchester.

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Subjects covered in interview include: Family in Europe, Growing up Jewish in Hartford, Work, Singing, Education Jewish Education, Doctor, Marriage, Religious involvement, Children, Changers in Hartford Doctoring, Jewish Community

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Subjects covered during interview include: Author of "Max and His Rose" an Autobiography about her parents, speaks on parents their Immigration, Reading from book, about writing process, pictures, Q&A, anecdotes, poems

Scope and Contents This file has a variety of items, from newspaper articles to passports to oral histories of the Hurwitz Family. Note that it seems like there may be two different Hurwitz families, one connected to Rabbi Isaac Hurewitz/Hurwitz and another consisting or Morris and Raymond and their families. Most of the information is connected to Isaac Hurewitz/Hurwitz's family. This Hurwitz family has several family trees that map out the generations.The oral history focuses on life in the home...

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In this interview, Eileen Hyman speaks about growing up in Hartford, touching on her Jewish education and family life. She also discusses her parent's immigration from Russia, her father's involvement in the family trucking business, and her mother's love of music and the way she was "ahead of her time".

Hyman spoke of the Brackett School, which appears to be the same as Northeast school.