Jewish families

This interview covers the following topics: Growing up Jewish in Hartford, secular and religious education, growing up in an orthodox family, family history including father’s occupation as a whip maker who later started a hardware store on Maple Street, her involvement in the American Jewish Congress particularly fundraising efforts, and life in retirement (including advice about what to do in a potential mugging situation).

Subjects covered during interview include: "Lecture and Slideshow on the Margolis Family of Craftsmen", Family history of work Immigration, Woodwork, other furniture makers, artistic nature, change, out of business Museums, design, Q&A, pieces at museums, antiques (partly interview on NBC)

Subjects covered during event include: History of Sephardic Congregation of Greater Hartford, Life of Henry Levy, European origins, move to America, anti-semitism, language, synagogues and congregations in Hartford, Torah, (notable) Spanish Jews, Settlement House on Pequot Street, Jewish Funerals, Greece, Holocaust as a child, family, religious literature of Spanish Jews,

This oral history details Rachel Himmelstein's experience growing up on a farm in Lebanon, CT, as well as teaching in a one room schoolhouse in that town and in Colchester.

This file also contains a color photograph labled "Opening night Colchester play, Marsha (Lotstein), Susan (Wasserman), and Chris (Bailey), "Mrs. Meil and the Chicken Hawk."