Vine Street, Hartford, CT

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This file contains a newspaper article on the Hoffman family's aliyah to Israel in the 1970s, a breif biographical sketch, and an oral history transcript detailing Robert and Lorraine Hoffman's time in the Hartford area where they grew up as well as their lives in Israel.

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This collection contains records of the JFS, newsletters, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs. The collection covers topics including foster care, domestic violence, senior adults, and the resettlement of Soviety Jewry.

Scope and Contents Related to Rome Family on mother's side.The interview covers Renee's time spent in Connecticut and Hartford, though originally from Baltimore, MD, where she returned after her husband Gilbert's death. Particular emphasis on role in the Yeshiva of Hartford, as well as other community members involved in the Yeshiva. Also participated in musical activities, composing cantatas for Emanuel Choaraleers. Sister in law to Irene Kahn Berkman of the Hartt School.Came to...

Scope and Contents Folder 1 contains: 2 photcopies of 7.5x10 black and white photo "Sept. 1951 -- Judges for Queen of Tobacco Harvest"; 2 photocopies of newspaper article about Gerber's invention and sale of Variable Scale; 2 photocopies of newspaper clipping "Jewish Congress postponed"; 2 photocopies of newspaper clipping "Scholarship won by Jacob Neusner"; 4 photocopies of newspaper photograph "new gate for cemetery"; 2 photocopies of post card picture; 2 photocopies of article from Endowment Fund of Greater...