Growing up Jewish in Russia
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:
Novick, Frank_1977/12/26, Oral History, 1977
Subjects covered during interview include: Growing up Jewish in Russia, Immigrating, Annie Fisher, Education, Cars Religious Education, Jewish Organizations, Emanuel Burial Ground, Israel, Politics
Oral History Tape Transcript, 1973
Subjects of interview include: Shtetl life in Russia before and during World War 1; immigration to Hartford; Russian antisemitism under Czarist Russia; Synagogues in Hartford; membership in Beth David; Zionism and support of Israel; poetry.
Oral History Tape Transcript/interview of Goldstein's son Ellie -- tapes 163, 164, undated
Oral History transcript from interview on August 15, 1977 of Ellie Goldstein by Emma Cohen.
Also contains note about spelling errors
Ellie Golstein offers insight into the life of his parents, primarily his father, and also recalls his own childhood.
Pearlstein, Alex
Subjects of interview include: Fleeing Russian Pogroms at age 12; Establishing life in Hartford; ethnic relations of Hartford; learning English; Accellerated path through schooling; involvement with zionism; meeting wife through Zionist gatherings.
Perkel, Morris, undated
Subjects of interview include: Life as jewish child in Russia; Jewish education; occupation of town by Germans in World War i; immigration to the United States; Zionism; Jewish orphans in the United States being raised non-Jewish; creation of Jewish orphanage, the Children's Orphan Home; teaching orphans; writing career; teaching at the YMHA and YWHA; Hartford Talmud Torah; Jewish literature.