Anti-Semitism

Folder contains: outline of transcript; draft of transcript introduction attached to short bio; photocopy of news article about celebrating Women of Valor; assorted materials paperclipped together including song lyrics, photocopies pf photographs, photocopies of news articles, program for Sisterhood induction cermony; correspondence from representative Barbara Kennely.

Mutiple newspaper clippings related to anti-Nazi protests during the early 1940s, and other community happenings in and around Hartford during the early WWII period. Contents include an original telegraph bulletin related to the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto (1943) and a booklet from the New Republic entitled, "The Jews of Europe": How to Help Them", (1943). Also, mutiple photocopies of newspaper clippings.

Subjects of interview include: Shtetl life in Russia before and during World War 1; immigration to Hartford; Russian antisemitism under Czarist Russia; Synagogues in Hartford; membership in Beth David; Zionism and support of Israel; poetry.

Subjects of interview include: Hartford history circa 1900; family life in Hartford; father's immigration from Austria; father's business as cattle dealer and butcher; early Jewish education and inability to go to college; husband's music career

Berlin pamphlet from 1933 called, "So geht's nicht weiter!" Traslated: "It Dosn't go on like this!" This pamphlet is by Johannes Martin. Another part of a pamphlet called, "Forderung der Stunde: Juden Raus!" Traslated: "Request of the Hour: Jews Out!" Also, more toren pieces of paper maybe to the pamphlets.

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.