Civil Rights -- United States

Interview [Possibly a handwritten abstract but handwriting is messy and often difficult to read]Activism on behalf of Soviet Jews in Maryland and Hartford, helped get Hartford into this activism and interested in helping resettle Soviet refugees in Hartford. Tricky dynamics between some activists and the early immigrants-some activists only wanted them to go to Israel/didn’t like that they would not demonstrate, but they were afraid for their families. Trip to USR to meet refuseniks....

Interview [Written abstract in the folder but handwriting is messy and often difficult to read.]Activism on behalf of Soviet Jews in Maryland and Hartford, helped get Hartford into this activism and interested in helping resettle Soviet refugees in Hartford. Tricky dynamics between some activists and the early immigrants-some activists only wanted them to go to Israel/didn’t like that they would not demonstrate, but they were afraid for their families. Trip to USR to meet refuseniks....

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There are two transcripts in this file. First, there is an interview of Arnold Greenberg from 2006 as noted in biographical/historical note. Second, there is a transcript of a program at the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford featuring Arnold and Leonard Greenberg discussing their father Maurice Greenberg as well as their life growing up and their experience with Coleco/Connecticut Leather Company in 1981.

Interview Subjects of the interview include: The immigrant parents of both subjects; their early lives; their school careers; ther political careers; the cynical and amoral nature of legislative bodies; crime; civil rights; the death penalty; outward signs of fascism in early 1990s America; anti-semitism or lack thereof; various politicians involved with the lives of the Koskoffs; the nature of being a plaintiff's attorney; prisons and the rights of mentally ill prisoners; Religion....

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Interview subjects include: Hall high School; teaching; guidance counseling; work as a principal; Barnard-Brown school; bilingual education; Temple Beth Israel; Jewish Family Services; something that looks like "gray lodge".