Businesses -- Farming
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
Hurwit, Doris_1974, Oral History, October 29, 1974
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 80
Abstract
GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONTape No.: 80
No. of Tapes:
Name of Interviewee: Doris Hurwitz (Mrs. James)
Date of Interview: Oct. 29,1974
Occupation:
Date of Birth: Dec. 13,1902
Place of Birth: Hartford, Ct.
Transcript (yes/no): yes
No. of Pages: 38Abstract:
A native of Hartford, Mrs. Hurwitz has written books about her childhood life in Hartford and is presently writing a book about her parents. Her father, whose original name was...
Dates:
October 29, 1974
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
Jewish Community in Lebanon, CT_1974/5/27, Oral Event History
Digital Record
Identifier: geitheim, m_1974
Jewish Community in Lebanon, CT_1974/5/27, Oral Event History, 1974 - 1974
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 88
Scope and Contents
Subjects: Jewish Community in Lebanon, Connecticut (specifics)
From Eastern Europe/ poor experience in New York City
Started 1885, joined 1988, 1900 had 12 families
Farmers; Livestock and Agriculture
Speakers: Max Geitham
Dates:
1974 - 1974
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: M 5
Levin, Mildred, undated
File — Flat_file_folder 4
Scope and Contents
Interview subjects include: Jewish family life on Connecticut farm; dairy and egg production; poverty; family influence in Colchester; family selling farm and moving to Hartford in 1928; clothing store; insurance business; being restricted from hotels; Mildred's career as teacher; teaching jobs excluded from jews in Hartford; teaching jobs excluded from Catholics in Hartford; father's early death; marriage to Maurice Levin; Mildred's sons; Zionism; Mother active in Hadassah; Mildred active...
Dates:
undated
Marder, Abraham (see also Plen), undated
File — Flat_file_folder 5
Scope and Contents
Folder 1 contains: black and white photocopy of group photograph "Marder family emigrating to Palsetione, Oct. 21, 1933, Vulcania 1933 -- Mrs. Lilian (Eisenberg) Marder and Alice Marder (Mileikowsky) and Sarah Marder (Plen) went to settle in Palestine (Sitting -- bottom row)"; Correspondence from Jewish Historical Society thanking her for donations; Sarah Plen's translation of marriage confirmation; news clippings; handwritten minutes of Zionist meeting; paper in Hebrew; certificate of award...
Dates:
undated