Bloomfield Avenue, Hartford, CT
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Hebrew Home and Hospital -- Hebrew HealthCare
Collection
Identifier: Institution-0008-002-004a
Scope and Contents
This collection is strongest in recent materials; it contains relatively little early material. One very interesting component of this collection is the material relating to Sophie Tucker whose mother, Jennie Abusa, and friends in Hartford supported the Home and arranged for her to do benefit shows here. Another useful component is the photos and printed material that show the Home residents during the early 20th century, giving a sense of some of the religious observance that obtained...
Dates:
1898 - 2012
Hoffenberg, Samuel, 1968 - 1978
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
These interviews cover much of the same material, focusing on Hartford's Jewish community in the early 1900s.
Dates:
1968 - 1978
Hoffenberg, Samuel_1972, Oral History, December 13, 1972
Item — Box OHC-2, Box: 13, Box: 1-2
Identifier: 43
Abstract
JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREATER HARTFORD
ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONTape No.: 179
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Name of Interviewee: Samuel Hoffenberg
Date of Interview:
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Date of Birth:
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Transcript (yes/no): Yes
No. of Pages: 26Abstract:
This interview is designed to bring up to date information obtained in a previous interview of 9/9/68.
Mr. Hoffenberg stated that Chesed Emes, now known as the Hebrew Funeral Home, had existed in the early 1900s. A...
Dates:
December 13, 1972