New Haven, CT

Interview

Life in Hartford, Jewish life in Hartford, family history. Pessin’s Deli on Windsor Street owned by her father and his brother. A brother died in World War II Career as a social worker Religious life and education Grandparents switched from Ados Israel to Agudas Achim.

This interview does NOT talk about Marcia's experience during WWII.

Interview Subjects of interview include: Immigrant, growing up Jewish in Hartford, synagogues, Jewish community, organizations, dedication of the Ados Israel Synagogue, assignation of President McKinley, father was the Cantor. Scope and Contents General notes on immigration and living in New Haven including occupations and activities. Paper includes a geneology tree begining with Bernard and Ruth Lander.Joseph was active and State...

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....

Scope and Contents Folder 1 contains: 2 photcopies of 7.5x10 black and white photo "Sept. 1951 -- Judges for Queen of Tobacco Harvest"; 2 photocopies of newspaper article about Gerber's invention and sale of Variable Scale; 2 photocopies of newspaper clipping "Jewish Congress postponed"; 2 photocopies of newspaper clipping "Scholarship won by Jacob Neusner"; 4 photocopies of newspaper photograph "new gate for cemetery"; 2 photocopies of post card picture; 2 photocopies of article from Endowment Fund of Greater...

Scope and Contents note

Subjects covered during interview include: Parents, New Haven, (Jewish) education, Zionism, sports, Sunday school, balls, Silvermans, Emanuel, Sunday School, Hadassah