| Description |
157 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Establishing th emodern Jewish Connecticut -- The people of central Connecticut -- From the Revolutionary War to Jewish renewal: Western Connecticut -- A uniquely changing community: Waterbury -- New Haven: Yiddish and Yale -- Town and country: eastern Connecticut -- Connecticut's connection to the holocaust. |
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Civil rights of Jews in Connecticut / Judge Henry S. Cohn -- Historical and architectural survey of historic Connecticut synagogues / David F. Ranson -- Credit with a little schnapps / Shelly Berman -- Mount Sinai : Connecticut's only Jewish hospital / Leon Chameides -- Honesty, courtesy and service : the G. Fox family / Cynthia Harbeson -- From the Civil War to Ados Israel : the Holtz family / Leonard Holtz -- Annie Fisher : educator, administrator, and social activist / Betty N. Hoffman -- Craftsman extraordinaire : Nathan Margolis and his furniture / Eileen Pollack -- Kid Kaplan : the Meriden buzz saw / David Kluczwski -- Marlow's for everything : George Markow and his store / Bruce A. Marlow -- Abraham Ribicoff : Connecticut's only Jewish governor, an autobiographical sketch -- Middletown's hidden treasure : the Shapiro family museum / Stephen P. Shapiro -- "We fell in love with this country" / Nadia Rivkin, as told to Betty N. Hoffman -- Jewish Fairfield County : the early years / Linda Baulsir, with Irwin and Vivian Miller -- Yes, there are Jews in Torrington / Joyce Peck -- Healer and humanitarian / Jacob Nemoitin, MD, as told to Ronald Marcus -- What we did for fun : a conversation about Bridgeport / as told to Betty N. Hoffman and Diane K. Cohen -- The Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center / Avital Rech and Barbara Starr -- Danbury's Lake Waubeeka / Cindy Mindell -- They found their war : generations of Jewish life in Waterbury / Mattatuck Museum -- Transition : revitalizing the community / Rabbi Judah Harris, as told to Adam M. Sherry -- Yeshiva Ateres Shmuel of Waterbury / Rabbi Aaron Sapirman, as told to Betty N. Hoffman -- Town and gown connections / Dr. Barry E. Herman -- Selma B. Rosenthal's midwife's ledger / Dr. Barry E. Herman -- Bagelizing America : the Lender family / Andrew Horowitz -- Kruger's juvenile furniture / Harry Kruger -- New London and Norwich / Jerry Fischer -- Connecticut's Jewish farmers / Mary M. Donohue and Briann G. Greenfield -- "But singing, he comes home" / Rabbi Debra S. Cantor -- Chesterfield : a shtetl in America / Micki Savin -- Between Marjorie Morningstar and dirty dancing : Grand Lake Lodge / Marcia E. Tannenbaum -- From Nazi Germany to Hartford : one family's journey / Shira Springer -- Hiram Bingham IV : defied his government to save lives / Robert Kim Bingham, Sr. -- A new life in New Haven / Sally Horwitz. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-154) and index. |
| Subject |
Jews -- Connecticut -- History.
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Jews -- Connecticut -- Social conditions.
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Connecticut -- Ethnic relations.
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| Added Author |
Hoffman, Betty N.
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| ISBN |
9781596299870 |
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1596299878 |
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