Workmen's Circle

Folder includes: 5x7 black and white photograph; 10x5 black and white photograph; Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary BUlletin; clipping of polio report from JWV bulletin; Convention materials such as ribbons, pins, and bades; Yearbook of Hartford Yeshiva 1951; Certificate of merit from Veteran's Affairs for work in Veterans Administration Voluntary Service; program of Workmen's Circle meeting 1938.

Subjects of interview include: immigration from Kovnia Gabernia; family life in hartford; working for uncle's tailoring business; loss of the old places of Hartford; areas of Jewish life; various congregations; Jewish education; Labor organization; Charity; decline of Workmen's Circle; Abature Farband.

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.

Subjects covered during interview include: Family, Education (Religious), Youth Organizations, Jewish Organizations Working in Business, Wife, Children, WWI, Immigrants, Workman's Circle, Teddy Roosevelt Father as tailor

Folder 2 contains:Photocopy of "Four To Remember" biography compilation; currency from the Theresienstadt/Terezin Ghetto printed in 1943; program for Victor Chenkin's performance at the Bushnell 3/16/1930; memo to Tager from Hartford Jewish Federation; news clipping imploring Tager's radio program to come back; postcard with a picture of Akatui prison; clipping of Hartford Courant title line

Subjects covered in interview include: Tape One: Jewish Communities in Russia, pogrom, Education America, Working, Zionism, Unions, Workmens Circle Tape Two: Continuation of previous tape; Starts with the Theater Working, Unions, Children

Much of the material in this collection pertains to the national organization. Of the Hartford-related material, most of the records focus on Branch 15.