Businesses -- Department Stores

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Subjects of interview include: growing up in Hartford; father's fruit business; Orthodox observance at home; work as salesgirl at Fox's; life in new Britain; work as president of sisterhood in B'nai Israel synagogue; work with Women's League; the old Litvishe Shul; memory of Teddy Roosevelt's campaign; travels including Israel, Switzerland, Germany, Russia; Husband's publishing business.

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Subjects of interview include: early life and education in Hartford ca. 1913; immigrant status of family; location of Jewish neighborhoods in Hartford; forced moving of Market Street synagogue; establishment of new synagogue; Aid to Jewish immigrants; establishment of Hebrew burial society that became Hebrew Funeral Home.

Scope and Contents

Folder contains: oral history transcript.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of this collection focuses on Jewish War Veterans Hartford Laurel Post #45 and Ladies’ Auxiliary. Materials related to the national Jewish War Veterans of the United States organization, as well as the Jewish War Veterans Harry Berson Post #56 and Eddy Glover Post #6, are also documented. A large portion of this collection also documents the activities of other organizations, including the Jewish Welfare Board and the USO in the Greater Hartford area. In addition to...