Radio

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One 3x5 black and white photograph of Alexander "Al" Cohen at right working on the radio WTHT. Became a marketing person for ads for radio stations in Hartford. Very active in radio history in Hartford.

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Folder contains a biographical sketch written by Cohen documenting his childhood growing up in Glastonbury and Hartford and his work in radio and advertising in the Hartford area. There also is a newspaper article covering his career and a photocopy of a photo which is filed with the photographs.

The folder also contains two obituaries, one for Alexander's brother Edward Cohen and one for Alexander.

Scope and Contents This file has a variety of items, from newspaper articles to passports to oral histories of the Hurwitz Family. Note that it seems like there may be two different Hurwitz families, one connected to Rabbi Isaac Hurewitz/Hurwitz and another consisting or Morris and Raymond and their families. Most of the information is connected to Isaac Hurewitz/Hurwitz's family. This Hurwitz family has several family trees that map out the generations.The oral history focuses on life in the home...

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Subjects: Speaking on other cantors, Jewish Community Members, Music, Synagogues, Performances, Rabbis School of Sacred Music, Teaching, Radio, ends abruptly

Speaker: Arthur Koret

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This file contains information on various individuals, primarily in the form of articles.

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File contains information on the life and war service of Stanley Kaufman (son of George and Ida Kaufman), who was in the signal corps in the Pacific Campaign in World War II. He served as a radio and radar repair technician during the saipan and Iwo Jima campaigns.

Color photocopied photograph of Stanley Kaufman, n.d. (ca. 1942-46).

Interview Subjects of interview include: Musical influences, mother, wife, children, Cantors and their later careers, choirs, records, festivals, radio, cantorate of Greater Hartford and rise to prominence in early 1950s, rabbinate of Greater Hartford. Scope and Contents Materials include flyers advertising JHS meeting 6/13/1973; Newspaper clippings of eulogies; Copy of newspaper clipping about honoring UofH veterans; Mylar folder of mixed materials...