Agriculture & Farming
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 91 Collections and/or Records:
Hurwitz, Joseph, 1955 - 2008
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
The 2004 interview focuses on Hurwitz's time in the Korean War as well as his involvement in the Hartford Jewish community and the Federation. The additional materials in the file speak to these topics and well.The topics covered in the 2006 interview include: Family history/his children. His childhood growing up Jewish in Hartford. His grandfather Rabbi Isaac Hurwitz (Hurewitz). his Bar Mitzvah at the Emanuel in Hartford. Zionism in Connecticut. Emanuel renting out space in...
Dates:
1955 - 2008
Hyman, Louis, October, 1968
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
This interview covers Hyman's life as a weaver in Shisluwitz(?) and Bialystock, his immigration to join his parents in North Daktota, and his move to Hartford to join his wife's family who settled there. He also discusses his involvement in peddling and wholesaling, as well as his participation in the Jewish community at the Garden Street Synogogue and through oxies. His parents made Aliyah sometime before 1914, fulfilling the dream they had when Hyman's father initially left Europe....
Dates:
October, 1968
Hyman, Louis_1968, Oral History, October, 1968
Item — Box OHC-1, Box: 12, Box: 1-2
Identifier: 19
Scope and Contents
This interview covers Hyman's life as a weaver in Shisluwitz(?) and Bialystock, his immigration to join his parents in North Daktota, and his move to Hartford to join his wife's family who settled there. He also discusses his involvement in peddling and wholesaling, as well as his participation in the Jewish community at the Garden Street Synogogue and through oxies. His parents made Aliyah sometime before 1914, fulfilling the dream they had when Hyman's father initially left Europe....
Dates:
October, 1968
Jewish Community in Lebanon, CT_1974/5/27, Oral Event History
Digital Record
Identifier: geitheim, m_1974
Jewish Community in Lebanon, CT_1974/5/27, Oral Event History, 1974 - 1974
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 88
Scope and Contents
Subjects: Jewish Community in Lebanon, Connecticut (specifics)
From Eastern Europe/ poor experience in New York City
Started 1885, joined 1988, 1900 had 12 families
Farmers; Livestock and Agriculture
Speakers: Max Geitham
Dates:
1974 - 1974
Jewish Farmers, Ethnic Identity, and Institutional Americanization in Turn-of-the-Century- Connecticut by Richard Moss, undated
File — Box 8
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:
undated
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: M 5
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, Lebanon, July, 2003
File — Box 7
Scope and Contents
One 3.5x4.5 color photograph of Sol Kiotic around the time of his oral history interview, died January 2004. July 2003.
Obituary.
Biographical sheet for Leo Novarr (In wrong place-Need to move)
Dates:
July, 2003