Music -- Synagogues

This box contains various information about the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies.

The collection contains miscellaneous records relating to the synagogue prior to its merge with Tikvoh Chadoshoh. The bulk of the collection is composed of newsletters covering the 1960s to the early 2000s. There is also a significant amount of material relating to the B'nai Sholom sisterhood, including several scrapbooks and a minute book that contains notes of the sisterhood's first meeting.

Subjects covered during this interview include: Family History, Immigration, Yiddish, Growing up in Philadelphia, Growing up Jewish, Music education, Music exposure, moving to Hartford, Maxwell's Drugstore, Jewish Life in Hartford, Emanuel Synagogue, fundraising, Beth Shalom Sisterhood and Synagogue, family, marriage, AZO, Zionism, Israel, Israel Synagogues. Continued on 1/26/1981

Subjects covered during interview include: Samuel and Rebecca Sless (parents), family history, immigration, growing up Jewish in Philadelphia, Hartford, Sless Pharmacy, Emanuel Synagogue, wife, Rabbi Silverman, daughters, grandchildren, music, AZO song, Beth Shalom, Emanuel synagogues, fundraising for Beth Shalom, Jewish Youth, Zionism, Beth Hillel, European Synagogues and Jewish Communities

Subjects: "The Beauty of Holiness" Art and Architecture of Synagogues, reflection of Jewish experience Music, European synagogues, Jewish life in Europe, history