Hans Bodenheimer was born in Bad Nauheim, Germany on January 3, 1913. His father died in World War I, so he was raised by his mother and grandparents. His grandfather, an observant Jew, took him to synagogue often and inspired […]
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Judge Abraham Bordon was born in Russia (now Piater, Ukraine) on October 7, 1891. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in Hartford. He graduated from Hartford Public High School in 1910 and entered a four-year
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David Theodore Chase was born in Kielce, Poland in 1929 to an architect father and mother who worked in a bank. In 1943, he, his parents and younger sister were sent to Auschwitz, where his mother and sister were killed
Born December 28, 1876 in Ukraine, she graduated from the University of Kharkov before coming to the U.S. in 1893, where she studied at the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy and the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. She was one of
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Born in Hartford on July 19, 1908, she was a graduate of the Connecticut College of Creative Arts. Known as an actress, director, producer, and teacher, she established the Randall School of Creative Arts in 1945 by bringing together talented
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Time Line is a short interactive activity designed to designed to show upper elementary or middle school students that it takes many people from different parts of a community to create change, while actively learning about how Jews had to
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Join us for an illustrated Zoom talk with Frank Himmelstein, whose family has been farming in Lebanon for 110 years. Established in 1913, the Himmelstein Homestead Farm is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, Jewish family farm in the
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Opening Reception at the Mandell JCC on Sunday, January 8, 2023, from 1:00 – 2:30 PM. Exhibition runs from January 2 – February 10, 2023. As a single mother and Holocaust survivor, Sidonia Perlstein spent most of her life in
Sidonia’s Thread – From the Holocaust to High Fashion 1.8.23 Learn More »
Religious Freedom for Jews in Connecticut is a primary source-based activity exploring how Jewish immigrants in the 1840s used the right of petition to expand religious freedom in a state that had initially excluded them. It is part of the
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Immigrants Build a Community: Hartford Jews in the Early 20th Century is a primary source-based activity using historical photographs and other documents to explore how immigrants made themselves feel at home in Hartford. It is part of the Teach It:
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