Congregation Tikvoh Chadoshoh

Scope and Contents This folder documents the civic life of Lillian and Victor Harris. Additionaly, there are many articles discussing their daughter-in-law Merle Harris's career in higher education, as well as some information on various other family members. A main feature of Victor's life was the Greater Hartford/World Bible Society.Victor Harris served as the state secretary of the Socialist Party in Connecticut in the 1930s.Article of note: Jonathan Harris's bar mitzvah was held at...

Interview This interview covers Truda Kaschmann's life growing up in Germany, her family's departure upon the Nazi rise to power, and settling into America in both Boston and Hartford. In Hartford, she taught dance to support her family (including her parents and in-laws who came from Germany in 1936). She taught at the Hartford Conservatory starting in 1935 and at the Hartford School for Women starting in 1940. As of the 1982 interview, she was still teaching. Was on many school's dance faculty (Miss...

Scope and Contents This interview covers Truda Kaschmann's life growing up in Germany, her family's departure upon the Nazi rise to power, and settling into America in both Boston and Hartford. In Hartford, she taught dance to support her family (including her parents and in-laws who came from Germany in 1936). She taught at the Hartford Conservatory starting in 1935 and at the Hartford School for Women starting in 1940. As of the 1982 interview, she was still teaching. Was on many school's dance faculty (Miss...

Conservtive Movement Event Subject: History of Conservative Judaism/Synagogues in Greater Hartford **Three Part Synagogue SeriesSpeaker: Rabbi Stanley KesslerKessler gives an overview of the conservative movement in the Greater Hartford area, giving brief histories of various congregations and general conservative movement (idea of “Positive-Historical” and “Catholic Israel”, that is, universal Israel). Great deal of focus the Emanuel. Discusses changes over the years (and congregational...

Scope and Contents Folder contains: 8x10 photograph pf persons seated in formal wear at ballroom dining table, including Milton Nahum, "Photo by John Vignoli AD 3-7705 West Hartford, Conn"; photocopy of photograph "Silverman col. 1976, New Synagogue Building, EMANUEL -- Mohegan Drive -- Groundbreaking, 1970, l-r: A Rothstein, Rabbi M. Silverman, L. Nassau, I Grody, Milton Nahum, xerox c - orig. 7x9 only (used in :LEDGER obit, MILTON NAHUM, 11/27/80"; newspaper clippings about Nahum's death; newspaper clippings...

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File contains information on Larry Kaplan's arrival at Congregation Tikvoh Chadoshoh in 1991 and sheds some light on some of his ways of thinking.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This is a small collection consisting of minutes from the 1960s through 1980s, scrapbooks and a handful of other materials. Several scrapbooks, compiled and donated by Gloria Bein are included. Due to serious deterioration, these scrapbooks have been photocopied onto plain paper.Box 1: A-RAnniversaries/20th, 1961Anniversaries/25th, 1966Anniversaries/35th, 1977Anniversaries/40th, 1981Anniversaries/45th, 1987...