Businesses & Professions -- Baker

This file contains a newspaper article on the Hoffman family's aliyah to Israel in the 1970s, a breif biographical sketch, and an oral history transcript detailing Robert and Lorraine Hoffman's time in the Hartford area where they grew up as well as their lives in Israel.

Biographical sketch on three Jewish War Veterans from Hartford (Samuel Kalechman, Mitchell Lassoff, Tommy Socket) as compiled by Robert H. Kalechman on December 6, 2003. Focus is on the various wartime accomplishments of the three men, as well as what they did upon returning home.

Folder includes: News clippings relating opening of new S. Kinder Bagel Baker Restaurant in Corbin's Corner; news clipping about closing of S. Kinder's; correspondence; invitations to opening of restaurant; letters of apology for being unable to seat as many people as purchased a ticket to opening; business cards for S. Kinder and Tatzin Associates stapled to cardboard; news clipping about Lender attempts to raise 1.3 billion dollars to resettled 210K Soviet Jews in Israel.

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.