Farming: Livestock-Chicken

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Program has an extensive biographical sketch detailing his time in the Navy in World War II, working at Sears Roebuck, selling insurance, working on the egg farm "Sue Ellen" in Bloomfield, and his role as president and educator at Beth Hillel in Bloomfield. Also some family information.

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Subjects covered during interview include: Family, farming, growing up Jewish, livestock, Hebron CT, family, chicken business, synagogue, retirement, children, Workmen's Circle, UConn, politics, Jewish farmers, Anti-Semitism, neighborhood, Hadassah, volunteer, Lion's Club, business

Interview Family history in Europe and in New York/CT (father from Brest-Litovsk in Poland and mother from Baranovitch, Lithuania) Father’s family had farm in Hebron from 1910-17, father moved to NY after there was a fire, though Robert’s Grandfather and uncle remained. In the late 1920s, his father (along with him and his mother) returned to the Hebron farm and later moved to Woodstock. Life on the farm. Dealing with anti-Semitism/KKK/living in a town with a small Jewish population in...

Interview Family history in Europe and in New York/CT (father from Brest-Litovsk in Poland and mother from Baranovitch, Lithuania) Father’s family had farm in Hebron from 1910-17, father moved to NY after there was a fire, though Robert’s Grandfather and uncle remained. In the late 1920s, his father (along with him and his mother) returned to the Hebron farm and later moved to Woodstock. Life on the farm. Dealing with anti-Semitism/KKK/living in a town with a small Jewish population in...

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Photocopy of book "I'll Give you a Nickled if You'll Listen to Me: The Gordon Family History" compiled and Edited by Zelda Gordon Schuman.

Book contains transcripts of various interviews of Charles Gordon, Zelda's father.

Scope and Contents This folder contains a partial oral history transcript outlining the life of Morgan Himmelstein, who grew up on a farm in Lebanon and who later became a teacher in Hartford. Other materials on file detail the history of the Himmelstein family, including a 1977 reflection by Morgan Himmelstein on his life, an article on the relfections of Morgan's aunt Rachel Himmelstein, as well as immigration lists of various Himmelsteins coming through Ellis Island.The file also has several...