Farming
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:
Eisenberg, Morris
File — Flat_file_folder 2
Scope and Contents
Contents of folder include: photocopy of release form; sample questions for family history; oral history interview transcript; "Through the Window Pane" autobiography
Dates:
1960s-2020s
Agriculture & Farming
Collection
Identifier: 0007-003-004
Abstract
With deteriorating conditions in Eastern Europe, many Jews came to the United States with the dream of becoming farmers. Various charities, especially the Baron de Hirsch Fund provided guidance and support and Jewish farming communities appear throughout Connecticut. Many small farms eventually developed into hotels and resorts. This collection documents the Jewish farming community in the Greater Hartford area through family and oral histories, records, newspaper articles, and...
Dates:
1890 - 2006
Frankel, Carl_1980/11/23, Oral History, November 23, 1980
Item — Box 13, Box: 228
Identifier: 228
Scope and Contents note
Subjects covered during interview include: Family, farming, growing up Jewish, livestock, Hebron CT, family, chicken business, synagogue, retirement, children, Workmen's Circle, UConn, politics, Jewish farmers, Anti-Semitism, neighborhood, Hadassah, volunteer, Lion's Club, business
Dates:
November 23, 1980
Goldman, Robert, 1944 - 2013
File — Flat_file_folder 2
Interview
Family history in Europe and in New York/CT (father from Brest-Litovsk in Poland and mother from Baranovitch, Lithuania)
Father’s family had farm in Hebron from 1910-17, father moved to NY after there was a fire, though Robert’s Grandfather and uncle remained. In the late 1920s, his father (along with him and his mother) returned to the Hebron farm and later moved to Woodstock.
Life on the farm.
Dealing with anti-Semitism/KKK/living in a town with a small Jewish population in...
Dates:
1944 - 2013
Goldman, Robert_1985,Oral History, December 4, 1985
Item — Box 21, Box: 378
Identifier: 378
Interview
Family history in Europe and in New York/CT (father from Brest-Litovsk in Poland and mother from Baranovitch, Lithuania)
Father’s family had farm in Hebron from 1910-17, father moved to NY after there was a fire, though Robert’s Grandfather and uncle remained. In the late 1920s, his father (along with him and his mother) returned to the Hebron farm and later moved to Woodstock.
Life on the farm.
Dealing with anti-Semitism/KKK/living in a town with a small Jewish population in...
Dates:
December 4, 1985
Greene, Julie Novick, undated
File — Flat_file_folder 2
Scope and Contents
This folder contains a paper redirecting to the other files indicated in the Related Archival Material note.
Dates:
undated