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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:
Hurwitz, Joe_2006, Oral History, December 4, 2006
File — Box 41, Box: 1008
Identifier: 0014 001 0011008
Interview
Topics covered include: Family history/his children. His childhood growing up Jewish in Hartford. His grandfather Rabbi Isaac Hurwitz (Hurewitz). his Bar Mitzvah at the Emanuel in Hartford. Zionism in Connecticut. Emanuel renting out space in Weaver for services/Jewish students at Weaver. Jewish life/his parents' lives in Europe (including Pogroms). How his parents met. Baron de Hirsch and Jewish Farmers. Family life. Supporting/participation in/giving money to the Greater Hartford Jewish...
Dates:
December 4, 2006
Hurwitz, Joseph, 1955 - 2008
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
The 2004 interview focuses on Hurwitz's time in the Korean War as well as his involvement in the Hartford Jewish community and the Federation. The additional materials in the file speak to these topics and well.The topics covered in the 2006 interview include: Family history/his children. His childhood growing up Jewish in Hartford. His grandfather Rabbi Isaac Hurwitz (Hurewitz). his Bar Mitzvah at the Emanuel in Hartford. Zionism in Connecticut. Emanuel renting out space in...
Dates:
1955 - 2008
Jacobs, Ron and Ruth, November 5, 2007
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
This interview discusses the involvement of Ruth and Ron Jacobs in the Jewish community.
Dates:
November 5, 2007
Jacobs, Ron and Ruth_2007, Oral History, November 5, 2007
File — Box 42, Box: 1002
Identifier: 0014 001 0011002
Scope and Contents
This interview discusses the involvement of Ruth and Ron Jacobs in the Jewish community.
Dates:
November 5, 2007
JCRC/Soviet Jewry/Dodd, Susan, 1980s, 1980-1989
File — Box 34
Scope and Contents
A trip with her husband to the Soviet Union inspired a new passion for helping Soviet Jews and learning about the Jewish religion and culture.
Dates:
1980-1989
Joseph, Irving “Chick”, 1918 - 1998
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
Thsi file contains information concerning Irving "Chick" Joseph's time as a student track athlete at Hartford Public High and in college at Syracuse University, for which he was posthumously honored by the JHSGH's Sports hall of fame. This file also touches on his career as a lawyer and judge in Hartford and Bristol, CT. Much of this material comes from what appear to be photographed pages from a scrapbook with many newspaper clippings. Joseph died in 1951The file also contains...
Dates:
1918 - 1998
Kagan, Marcia_1990, Oral History, October 14, 1990
Item — Box 26, Box: 486
Identifier: 486
Interview
Life in Hartford, Jewish life in Hartford, family history.
Pessin’s Deli on Windsor Street owned by her father and his brother.
A brother died in World War II
Career as a social worker
Religious life and education
Grandparents switched from Ados Israel to Agudas Achim.
This interview does NOT talk about Marcia's experience during WWII.
Dates:
October 14, 1990