Burial societies

Scope and Contents

Beth Jacob existed as a burial society until 1999, when it turned its cemetery over to the care of the Jewish Cemetery Association. The records in the collection consist of correspondence, financial statements, and dues records from the 1950s until 1999. The collection does not contain any information regarding the founding of the society.

Simon Weinstein of Weinstein Mortuary in West Hartford was Secretary of Beth Jacob for many years.

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...

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.

Transcript subjects Subjects of transcript include: Jewish family life in Hartford in the early 1900s; crowded conditions of living; street markets; children selling newspapers; immigration; work in a department store; Windsor Street as an integrated neighborhood, the "Pot of Gold"; Fish selling and living above a fish market; Rose's father's struggle to make ends meet as a mender and tinker; various building fires close to Rose's home; children playing in the snow; hasty marriage; a wedding; generosity of a...

Scope and Contents Folder 1 contains: 2 photcopies of 7.5x10 black and white photo "Sept. 1951 -- Judges for Queen of Tobacco Harvest"; 2 photocopies of newspaper article about Gerber's invention and sale of Variable Scale; 2 photocopies of newspaper clipping "Jewish Congress postponed"; 2 photocopies of newspaper clipping "Scholarship won by Jacob Neusner"; 4 photocopies of newspaper photograph "new gate for cemetery"; 2 photocopies of post card picture; 2 photocopies of article from Endowment Fund of Greater...