Businesses & Professions -- Insurance
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:
Burness,Leon_1987/03/05,Oral History, March 5, 1987
Item — Box 23, Box: 404
Identifier: 404
Scope and Contents
No digital recording. Observation of topics is based on abstract from his Individual folder
Dates:
March 5, 1987
Businesses/Insurance, 1984-2016
File — Box 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection consists of newspaper clippings, advertisements, and memorabilia documenting the activities of Jewish business people and Jewish professionals (physicians, attorneys, artists, musicians, etc.) throughout the Hartford area.
Dates:
1984-2016
Clare, Gertrude, March 6, 1983
File — Flat_file_folder 1
Interview
Much about life in Palestine, Family went to Palestine in 1925 came back to New Britain in 1927 when she was still in school, Returned in 1932 because of Depression (at risk of losing their land if they didn’t return) and stayed for about 8 years until 1939 on cusp of World War II, knew Itmar Ben-Avi (son of Eliezer Ben-Yehudah, father of modern Hewbrew), participated in the Royal Army Service co. as a civilian and in the Haganah, patrolled the shoreline and sometimes helped illegal...
Dates:
March 6, 1983
Clare, Gertrude_1983, Oral History, March 6, 1983
Item — Box 17, Box: 304
Identifier: 303
Scope and Contents
A hard copy transcript exists but is in poor conditionEdit: New typed transcription attached. Interview Much about life in Palestine, Family went to Palestine in 1925 came back to New Britain in 1927 when she was still in school, Returned in 1932 because of Depression (at risk of losing their land if they didn’t return) and stayed for about 8 years until 1939 on cusp of World War II, knew Itmar Ben-Avi (son of Eliezer...
Dates:
March 6, 1983
Fishman, Robert, January 11, 2000
File — Box 1
Interview
[Possibly a handwritten abstract but handwriting is messy and often difficult to read]Activism on behalf of Soviet Jews in Maryland and Hartford, helped get Hartford into this activism and interested in helping resettle Soviet refugees in Hartford. Tricky dynamics between some activists and the early immigrants-some activists only wanted them to go to Israel/didn’t like that they would not demonstrate, but they were afraid for their families. Trip to USR to meet refuseniks....
Dates:
January 11, 2000
Fishman, Robert_2000, Oral History, January 11, 2000
File — Box 31, Box: 671
Identifier: 0014 001 001671
Interview
[Written abstract in the folder but handwriting is messy and often difficult to read.]Activism on behalf of Soviet Jews in Maryland and Hartford, helped get Hartford into this activism and interested in helping resettle Soviet refugees in Hartford. Tricky dynamics between some activists and the early immigrants-some activists only wanted them to go to Israel/didn’t like that they would not demonstrate, but they were afraid for their families. Trip to USR to meet refuseniks....
Dates:
January 11, 2000
Freedman, Philip E., 1954 - 2009
File — Flat_file_folder 2
Scope and Contents
Army papers are very difficult to read Korean War Veteran who served in the Counterintelligence Corps
Dates:
1954 - 2009