Beth Hamedrash Hagodol (Garden Street Synagogue)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
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
Karpman, Unknown
File — Box 2
Scope and Contents
This account details the life of Charles Karpman, starting from his childhood in a shtetl called Narovlya, Russia. He discusses Jewish life as well as daily life of a child in Russia.The family immigrated in 1916(?) when he was five through the east through Japan, then Seattle, then eventually to Hartford where his father and other family members had settled. This route was taken because passage west was blocked due to World War I.The milkman gave the Karpmans English...
Dates:
Unknown
Katz, George (Greenberg Family), 1937 - 1973
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
Many of the documents in this file are military records. There are two Honorable discharges, one being done so that George Katz could re-enlist in 1938.
Mainly katz's responcibilities were as a Finance Clerk.
Dates:
1937 - 1973
Kaufman, Leo, 1930 - 2003
File — Folder 3
People File
This file contains the oral history interview release form from the 2003 interview, signed about a month after it took place. There is also a partial transcript from the 1997 interview (see corresponding Scope & Contents for more information) as well as a photocopied newspaper article about Kaufman's participation in an oratory competition sponsored by the Aleph Zadik Aleph organization. There are also two photocopied photographs of Leo Kaufman in various clubs at Weaver High as listed...
Dates:
1930 - 2003
Kaufman, Leo_1997, Oral History, October 30, 1997
Item — Box 29, Box: 572
Identifier: 572
Scope and Contents
Topics covered in this interview include: Growing up in Springfield, parent's immigration, family, employment in Hartford area, service in World War II and veterans organizations, advertising agency.
Dates:
October 30, 1997