Businesses & Professions -- Salesman

Scope and Contents Folder 1 contains: 2 photcopies of 7.5x10 black and white photo "Sept. 1951 -- Judges for Queen of Tobacco Harvest"; 2 photocopies of newspaper article about Gerber's invention and sale of Variable Scale; 2 photocopies of newspaper clipping "Jewish Congress postponed"; 2 photocopies of newspaper clipping "Scholarship won by Jacob Neusner"; 4 photocopies of newspaper photograph "new gate for cemetery"; 2 photocopies of post card picture; 2 photocopies of article from Endowment Fund of Greater...

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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 Bnai Israel synagogue; work with Women's League; the old Litvishe Shul; memory of Teddy Roosevelt's campaign; travels including Israel, Switzerland, Germany, Russia; Husban'ds publing business.

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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 in Hartford; father's carpentry business; immigration of parents from Russia; ethnic makeup of Hartford's North End prior to it becoming a predominantly Jewish area; Influx of Jews into north end; work as salesman and Hartford Board of Ed member; local politics; soliciting help from the WPA; acting as Director of Plant Operations for board of ed; wife's teaching career.

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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Subjects of interview include: Nursing education and career; Military service: personal experience with anti-semitism and racism in US military; Re-enlistemtnt for Korean war; Moving from Brighton MA to Hartford.