New York

Scope and Contents Folder 1 contains: news clipping of Melrose becoming new Weaver principal; plastic sleeve containing invitation to interview at JHSGH, news clippings, handwritten note, photographs of Melrose an company; yellow sheets of handwritten notes; plastic sleeve containing news clippings; Merit award for work at Jewish Family Service; plastic sleeve containing news clippings and envelope; plastic sleeve containing news clipping, typed material, small WWII photograph, State of New Mexico driver's...

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Folder contains: Family history, handwritten for Emanuel Religious High School and typed later.

Scope and Contents Subjects of interview include: early life in Russia; process of immigration out of Haburg; education in New York City; work as a pharmacist in Hartford; over-the-counter medicines of the early 1900s; other small businesses in Hartford; qualifications to become a phramacist in Connecticut in the early 1900s; early telephones and their opreators; interest in music; attendance of theater; rise of anti-semitism in the United States; photography; the disintegration of parental authority over...

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Subjects of interview include: Holocaust, immigration, migration from new York to Alabama, Reform Judaism, migration to Connecticut, Ohio, and Daytona, jewish identity, education, family and lack thereof, adapting to America

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Oral History transcript from interview on August 15, 1977 of Ellie Goldstein by Emma Cohen. Also contains note about spelling errors

Ellie Golstein offers insight into the life of his parents, primarily his father, and also recalls his own childhood.

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Subjects covered during interview include: Family history, immigration, immigrants, Growing up Jewish, Jewish Education, Pogroms, family death Medicine, New York, blouse shop, husband, Cultural Club, helping the workers, chicken farming, family, choir, Jewish Fraternal Organization, family, picture of choir,

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This oral history details Rachel Himmelstein's experience growing up on a farm in Lebanon, CT, as well as teaching in a one room schoolhouse in that town and in Colchester.

This file also contains a color photograph labled "Opening night Colchester play, Marsha (Lotstein), Susan (Wasserman), and Chris (Bailey), "Mrs. Meil and the Chicken Hawk."

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Most of the material in this collection was generated as a result of a survey of Jewish farms in Connecticut jointly undertaken in 1995-1998 by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford and the Connecticut Historical Commission. Other material related to Jewish farms in Connecticut has been added since that time. The collection includes photographs of individual farms, farmers, and farm buildings, oral histories, and newspaper articles regarding local farm families and businesses....