Growing up Jewish
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 189 Collections and/or Records:
Jewish Women in WWII Project/Oral Histories/Katz, Rosalyn Natalie
Digital Record
Identifier: katz, roslyn
Jewish Women in WWII Project/Oral Histories/Novarr, Sylvia Greenbaum
Digital Record
Identifier: novarr, sylvia_1983
Kagan, Marcia_1990, Oral History, October 14, 1990
Item — Box 26, Box: 486
Identifier: 486
Interview
Life in Hartford, Jewish life in Hartford, family history.
Pessin’s Deli on Windsor Street owned by her father and his brother.
A brother died in World War II
Career as a social worker
Religious life and education
Grandparents switched from Ados Israel to Agudas Achim.
This interview does NOT talk about Marcia's experience during WWII.
Dates:
October 14, 1990
Kahn, Margaret_2010, Oral History, May 12, 2010
File
Scope and Contents
This interview documents Margaret Kahn's experience of the Holocaust, as well as her understanding of herself as a result of the hardships of her childhood. Until Hitler rose to power, she states that she had a secure middle class upbringing in a home that did not keep kosher. Once she was forced to attend Jewish parochial schools once Jews were banned from German schools, this became an issue since it meant she had to watch what she brought for lunch. She made a friend there that helped...
Dates:
May 12, 2010
Kantor, Rita, June 23, 1992
File — Box 2
Scope and Contents
Discusses life in Russia/Moldova as a Jew-antisemitism, early death of parents causing trauma. Raising daughter in face of anti-semitism. Red hair apparently is a marker of Jewishness in Russia, which her daughter had. Husband faced discrimination finding employment because he was clearly Jewish-government sanctioned anti-semitism.Jew as nationality more than religion-didn't get as much passed down because of lack of parents but still felt strong Jewish identity. Engaged more...
Dates:
June 23, 1992
Kantor, Rita_1992/06/23, Oral History, June 23, 1992
Item — Box 31, Box: 675
Identifier: 675
Scope and Contents
Discusses life in Russia/Moldova as a Jew-antisemitism, early death of parents causing trauma. Raising daughter in face of anti-semitism. Red hair apparently is a marker of Jewishness in Russia, which her daughter had. Husband faced discrimination finding employment because he was clearly Jewish-government sanctioned anti-semitism.Jew as nationality more than religion-didn't get as much passed down because of lack of parents but still felt strong Jewish identity. Engaged more...
Dates:
June 23, 1992
Kantor, Samuel and Elka, 1988 - 1992
File — Box 2
Scope and Contents
1988 Interview:This interview discusses growing up in Soviet Russia, strating around the beining of the Revolution until the 1970s when Samuel and Elka left Russia for the United States. It hightlights their careers in economics (Elka) and engineering (Samuel), though they immigrated after they retired. They mention an adopted child (children?) but their names are unclear. Hard to understand at times, probably due to the subjects learning English later in life, however most of it...
Dates:
1988 - 1992