Literature, Jewish

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.

Subjects of interview include: Life as jewish child in Russia; Jewish education; occupation of town by Germans in World War i; immigration to the United States; Zionism; Jewish orphans in the United States being raised non-Jewish; creation of Jewish orphanage, the Children's Orphan Home; teaching orphans; writing career; teaching at the YMHA and YWHA; Hartford Talmud Torah; Jewish literature.

Subjects covered during event include: History of Sephardic Congregation of Greater Hartford, Life of Henry Levy, European origins, move to America, anti-semitism, language, synagogues and congregations in Hartford, Torah, (notable) Spanish Jews, Settlement House on Pequot Street, Jewish Funerals, Greece, Holocaust as a child, family, religious literature of Spanish Jews,