Businesses & Professions -- Physician

1993 Interview The topics covered in this interview are: Childhood/growing up Jewish in Hartford, being raised by grandparents after the death of his mother, founding of Emanuel and discussion of some of the spiritual leaders, served in Navy in WWII and was unofficial Jewish chaplain, medical residency/medical school, meeting his wife Joan, talks about his two children David and Louise, opening practice in Hartford as thoracic surgeon, work in various area hospitals, bias against Jewish doctors at Hartford...

Interview The topics covered in this interview are: Childhood/growing up Jewish in Hartford, being raised by grandparents after the death of his mother, founding of Emanuel and discussion of some of the spiritual leaders, served in Navy in WWII and was unofficial Jewish chaplain, medical residency/medical school, meeting his wife Joan, talks about his two children David and Louise, opening practice in Hartford as thoracic surgeon, work in various area hospitals, bias against Jewish doctors at Hartford...

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This file contains a letter written to Barbara Kessel by Herman Weinstein acknowledging the donation of two oil paintings by her and Leizor. It also contains obituaries for both Leizor and Barbara, which gives a bit more information about their careers and their lives. Both were Holocaust survivors who came to the United States in the mid-1950s.

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Subjects covered during interview include: Wooster Street, Brown School, Education, classmates, University of Vermont, medical degree work in hospital, first jobs, office, military commission, return to practice, medical cases, Mount Sinai, Jewish doctors, changes, welfare, private patients, retirement

Scope and Contents Folder contains: Small envelope containing newspaper clippings detailing Mayer's work to save life of girl with Diptheria; photocopies of clippings; photocopy of book page "Four to Remember" (See copy in Annie Fisher/Abe Goldstein); photocopy of newspaper article "the history of the Jews in Hartford"; Short biography of Nathan Mayer; Invitation to research study presentation at JHSGH; 2 copies of Mayer's poetry; 2 copies of mayer's Address to Ararat Lodge; 3 photocopies of newspaper article...

Scope and Contents Subjects of interview include: early life in Russia; process of immigration out of Haburg; education in New York City; work as a pharmacist in Hartford; over-the-counter medicines of the early 1900s; other small businesses in Hartford; qualifications to become a phramacist in Connecticut in the early 1900s; early telephones and their opreators; interest in music; attendance of theater; rise of anti-semitism in the United States; photography; the disintegration of parental authority over...

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Folder contains: Handwritten biography of Max Nordeau (1848-1923), including subjects of Nordeau's education, life in Budapest, travels in Europe, work as a physician, military service, and writer.

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Subjects of interview include: Music career; experience at UCONN; involvement with advertising; family success with patents, Initial Public Offerings, and stock market; career of children; recommendation not to get into the business of professional music playing; activity with Rotary Club and Shriners.