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Farming

 Subject

Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:

Rosenbaum, Goldey_1980/10/17, Oral History, October 17, 1980

 Item — Box 12, Box: 221
Identifier: 221
Scope and Contents note

Subjects covered during interview include: Growing up Jewish in Russia, parents, immigrant, immigration, Ellis Island, farming, education, children, family name, family, orthodoxy, Hebrew, Israel, E. Cohen commentary.

Dates: October 17, 1980

Rytman, Julius

 Digital Record
Identifier: rytman, julius
Dates: 1950s-1970s

Schatz, Elizabeth_1976/8/25, Oral History

 Digital Record
Identifier: schatz, e_1976

Schatz, Elizabeth_1976/8/25, Oral History, 1976 - 1976

 Item — Box 8, Box: unknown container
Identifier: 132
Scope and Contents

Subjects covered in interview include: Family beginnings in Europe. Coming to Hartford Education, Zionism, Family, Marriage, Women's Suffrage Politics, Family farm, Children, Intermarriage,

Dates: 1976 - 1976

Sosland, Bessie_1980/12/9, Oral History

 Digital Record
Identifier: sosland, bessie_1980

Sosland, Bessie_1980/12/9, Oral History, December 9, 1980

 Item — Box 13, Box: 230
Identifier: 230
Scope and Contents note

Subjects covered during interview include: Family history, immigration, immigrants, Growing up Jewish, Jewish Education, Pogroms, family death Medicine, New York, blouse shop, husband, Cultural Club, helping the workers, chicken farming, family, choir, Jewish Fraternal Organization, family, picture of choir,

Dates: December 9, 1980

Towns/Colchester/Oral History/Himmelstein, Rachel, 1986, 1986-1986

 File — Box
Scope and Contents

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."

Dates: 1986-1986

Towns/Eastern Connecticut/Research Papers/Gordon, Morton L. The History of the Jewish farmer in Eastern Connecticut. Yeshiva University, 1975. Includes Ellington, Rockville, Willimantic, Colombia, Chestnut Hill, Hebron, Lebanon, Amston, Colchester, Moodus, chesterfield, Woodstock, Putnam, Pomfret, Abington, Killingly, Danielson, Brooklyn, Moosup, Plainfield, Jewett City, Norwich, New London, Madison, Guildford, New Haven, and Hartford. 2 copies., 1975-1975

 File — Box 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Most of the material in this collection was generated as a result of a survey of Jewish farms in Connecticut jointly undertaken in 1995-1998 by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford and the Connecticut Historical Commission. Other material related to Jewish farms in Connecticut has been added since that time. The collection includes photographs of individual farms, farmers, and farm buildings, oral histories, and newspaper articles regarding local farm families and businesses....
Dates: 1975-1975

Towns/Farmington/Farmers/Greenberg, Abraham Leon (1847-1907), 1847-1907

 File — Box 1
Scope and Contents

All photos are of the same picture: Portrait of Abraham Leon Greenberg in cantor outfit, n.d.

Appears to be part of the photo cited in Hariette Katz's research of Abraham and wife Flora, though Flora seems to be cropped out.

The larger photo appears to be a copy of the negative.

Dates: 1847-1907

Towns/Farmington/Farmers/Greenberg family farm, undated

 File — Box 1
Scope and Contents

One negative and Two 5x7 black and white photos of the farm, n.d., captioned "The Old Cadwell Homestead-Res. Abraham L. Greenberg".

5x7 black and white portrait of Abraham and Flora (Avrom and Chia) Greenberg.

Mounted Print same picture as the 5x7 of the farm.

Dates: undated