Vincenza Pusateri was born in Termini Imerese, Italy in 1888. In 1910 she married Nicola Bondi, an Italian emigrant in the United States, and she moved with him to Indianapolis. She and her husband sold produce and had four children. Vincenza died of tuberculosis in 1921.
Creator:
Indiana State Museum
Created:
1905-07-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Part of a series of interviews with drug addicts conducted by Ralph Tefferteller, associate director of the Henry Street Settlement in New York. Selections from the interviews were published in 1965 as The Addict in the Street, edited by Jeremy Larner. The name used in the title is a pseudonym created by Ralph Tefferteller. Identifying informati...
Creator:
Abruzzi, Dom
Contributor:
Tefferteller, Ralph (Interviewer)
Created:
1961-01-16; 1963-01-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
One of a series of interviews with drug addicts conducted by Ralph Tefferteller, associate director of the Henry Street Settlement in New York. Selections from the interviews were published in 1965 as The Addict in the Street, edited by Jeremy Larner. The names used in the title are pseudonyms created by Ralph Tefferteller. Identifying informati...
Creator:
Mueller, Henry; Kean, Philip
Contributor:
Tefferteller, Ralph (Interviewer)
Created:
1961-05-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
One of a series of interviews with drug addicts conducted by Ralph Tefferteller, associate director of the Henry Street Settlement in New York. Selections from the interviews were published in 1965 as The Addict in the Street, edited by Jeremy Larner. The name used in the title is a pseudonym created by Ralph Tefferteller. Identifying informatio...
Creator:
Greenburg, Larry
Contributor:
Tefferteller, Ralph (Interviewer)
Created:
1963-03-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
One of a series of interviews with drug addicts conducted by Ralph Tefferteller, associate director of the Henry Street Settlement in New York. Selections from the interviews were published in 1965 as The Addict in the Street, edited by Jeremy Larner. The name used in the title is a pseudonym created by Ralph Tefferteller. Identifying informatio...
Creator:
Garcia, Ricky
Contributor:
Tefferteller, Ralph (Interviewer)
Created:
1963-02-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Dog barking at the beginning. Dr. Roucek begins his interview by talking about his early work experiences, including holding a position at New York University. He talks about Louis Adamic and the subject of cultural pluralism. Dr. Roucek touches on his teaching experiences, both as a lecturer and a writer, then later teaching extension courses a...
Creator:
Roucek, Joseph
Created:
1970-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Ms. Ephraim begins by going over a bit of background history about herself and her involvement in education and, more specifically, Jewish education. She talks about her position at the Central Jewish Institute where she was the director of extension education. She engaged in this education through various forms of art such as music, providing a...
Creator:
Ephraim, Miriam
Created:
1975-07-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Leibman's account of his journey to the United states and experiences entering the country, traveling by train to St Paul to join his brother, his first home on the Lower West Side and a detailed description of the neighborhood. A PDF version of the transcript available at http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/pdf-assets/jhs-leibman.pdf
Creator:
Leibman, Joseph
Contributor:
Culben, Clifford (Interviewer)
Created:
1976-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mildred Magaret (Friedeborg) Anderson, former editor of Common Ground. Remarks concerning authors associated with Common Ground. Comments in response to a letter from William Beyer, then a graduate student, University of Minnesota
Creator:
Anderson, Mildred Margaret
Created:
1976-06-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Mildred Magaret (Friedeborg) Anderson, former editor of Common Ground. Autobiographical remarks. Comments in response to a letter from William Beyer, then a graduate student, University of Minnesota
Creator:
Anderson, Mildred Margaret
Created:
1976-06-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Carey McWilliams, regular contributor to Common Ground 1941-1950, interviewed by William Beyer, 24 June 1977 at McWilliams'. Mr. Beyer is interviewing Mr. McWilliams about an editorial magazine named Common Ground. He inquires about how Common Ground was an institution to help publish new authors, mainly immigrant and ethnic authors who otherwis...
Creator:
McWilliams, Carey
Contributor:
Beyer, William (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
In this interview, Harry Rosenthal (1897 - ), leader in the St. Paul, Minnesota Jewish community gives an account of his community involvement over a near sixty year period. Rosenthal recounts his early interest in Zionism and the beginnings of his involvement in Jewish communal affairs after World War I. He describes encounters with numerous in...
Creator:
Rosenthal, Harry, 1897 -
Contributor:
Lapidos, Morris (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-03-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Audio file of an interview with Lena Senensky conducted by Lois Devitt. The interview includes: family history in Russia and immigration to the United States; daily life on St Paul's Lower West Side; creation and early years of the Jewish Home for the Aged.
Creator:
Lena Senensky, 1893-1984
Contributor:
Devitt, Lois (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-07-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Lerman Family history; Lerman's work in the US Post Office and the railroads; getting into law school at the University of Minnesota and his many years of legal practice as a labor lawyer. Lerman was also involved with the St. Paul Workman's Circle, and discusses labor-related activities in the St. Paul Jewish community, including Labor-Zionism....
Creator:
Lerman, Louis, 1894-1978
Contributor:
Tselos, Gretchen (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-07-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mildred Margaret (Friedeborg) Anderson, former editor of Common Ground interview by William Beyer, 2 July 1977 at her home on Lighthouse Point, Mayville, New York. The theme at the beginning of this interview between Margaret Anderson and William Beyer was that of Common Ground, a literary magazine that Ms. Anderson was editor of for a number of...
Creator:
Anderson, Mildred Margaret
Contributor:
Beyer, William (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-07-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Mildred Margaret (Friedeborg) Anderson, former editor of Common Ground interview by William Beyer, 2 July 1977 at her home on Lighthouse Point, Mayville, New York
Creator:
Anderson, Mildred Margaret
Contributor:
Beyer, William (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-07-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Read Lewis, former executive director of the Common Council for American Unity 1940-1959 interviewed by William Beyer, 28 June 1977 at ACNS offices, New York. The interview begins by Mr. Lewis talking about the formation of Common Ground and the influences that it drew from to help it begin. He then elaborates more by citing an editorial called ...
Creator:
Lewis, Read
Contributor:
Beyer, William (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
In this interview, Adeline Fremland (Tendser) gives an account of her early life as a Jewish Minnesotan. She was born in Mankato, Minnesota to Maurice Tendser and Fanny Silverman, who were Russian immigrants. She discusses how they came through Canada in the late 1800s, living at first in a log cabin, and describes how Maurice peddled merchandis...
Creator:
Fremland, Adeline
Contributor:
Lipschultz, Ellen (Interviewer)
Created:
1978-04-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Audio file of an interview with Irwin Epstein conducted by Laia Berstein. The interview includes: Epstein's experiences growing up in St. Paul; schooling; religious education; and medical school.
Creator:
Epstein, Irwin, 1900-1986
Contributor:
Bernstein, Laia (Interviewer)
Created:
1978-04-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Edith Milavitz gives an account of her early life as a Jewish Minnesotan. She was born in 1907 in St. Paul of Russian immigrant parents. Milavitz speaks about how her father was a junk peddler and how her mother and family sold chickens from the front yard of their St. Paul home on the West Side. The majority of this interview...
Creator:
Milavitz, Edith, 1907-?
Contributor:
Aronson, Judy (Interviewer)
Created:
1978-03-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Audio file of an interview with Esther Sirott and Ethel Levy conducted by Steve Foldes and Shirley Milgren. Esther Sirott was born in Lithuania and settled with her father and brothers on lower West Side of St. Paul. Ethel Levy was born in Iowa and lived briefly on the West Side of St Paul before moving with her family to a dairy farm where her ...
Creator:
Sirott, Esther, 1908-1993; Levy, Ethel, 1904-1982
Contributor:
Foldes, Steve (Interviewer); Milgren, Shirley (Interviewer)
Created:
1978-05-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Irving Nathanson gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan. He explains how he was born around the turn of the 20th century to Morris and Jenny Nathanson, who left Chicago for Eveleth, Minnesota to be merchants. Nathanson continues, telling the story of how the family moved to St. Paul in the 1920s so that Irving cou...
Creator:
Nathanson, Irving, circa 1900-?
Contributor:
Gellman, Andy (Interviewer)
Created:
1978-04-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Ms. Friedl begins the interview by touching on her family background and her coming to America. She then talks about her experiences receiving an education at the Schauffer College of Missionary and Social Work. Ms. Friedl talks about briefly returning to Czechoslovakia, her home country, then returning for a second time to the US. She explains ...
Creator:
Freidl, Mana Kejval
Created:
1978-06-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Ms. Pavel begins by talking about her upbringings in a small town in Romania and covers basic information of her early life, including her family. She touches on the troubles of being Hungarian and Romanian; Hungarian being the official language of Romania at the time. She mentions going back to Romania and visiting her sister who she had not se...
Creator:
Pavel, Marie
Created:
1978-06-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Ms. Pavel begins by talking about her upbringings in a small town in Romania and covers basic information of her early life, including her family. She touches on the troubles of being Hungarian and Romanian; Hungarian being the official language of Romania at the time. She mentions going back to Romania and visiting her sister who she had not se...
Creator:
Pavel, Marie
Created:
1978-06-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Ms. Gunkel begins the interview by talking about her family background, including her parent's immigration from England in 1872. She talks about her experiences at the University of Illinois and the influence of Jane Addams on her life. Ms. Gunkel gives reasons why she decided to join the work force as the Girl Reserves Secretary of the Internat...
Creator:
Gunkel, Fern
Created:
1978-06-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Ms. Gunkel begins the interview by talking about her family background, including her parent's immigration from England in 1872. She talks about her experiences at the University of Illinois and the influence of Jane Addams on her life. Ms. Gunkel gives reasons why she decided to join the work force as the Girl Reserves Secretary of the Internat...
Creator:
Gunkel, Fern
Created:
1978-06-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Ms. Mitchell begins by talking about her mother, father, and grandfather and how they have played an influence in her life. She then goes on to explain her educational career, including her particular interest and MA thesis on the topic of Immigrants in St. Louis. Ms. Mitchell touches on her position as the Field Secretary of the WYCA, as well a...
Creator:
Mitchell, Ruth Crawford
Created:
1978-04-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Audio file of an interview with Sylvia Peilen conducted by Ann Greenberg. The interview includes: Peilen family history, including growing up on the East side and moving to the West side of St. Paul; Jewish-gentile relations; Sylvia Peilen's schooling and early employment history. Peilen also recalls her work with several different community ser...
Creator:
Sylvia Peilen, 1896-1986
Contributor:
Greenberg, Ann (Interviewer)
Created:
1978
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Abe Calmenson gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan. He describes involvement in the early Zionist movement around the United States and what was then Palestine. While there Calmenson co-founded the Jerusalem School of Music. Topics associated with Zionism in this interview were the ZLA, Theodore Herzl, and Henri...
Creator:
Calmenson, Abe
Created:
1978 - 1983
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Ethnicity and Children's Literature. This interview, or rather panel discussion, begins by Mr. Novak talking about the subject of subconscious learning in children and how that affects the child's opinions later in life, as well as various patterns and cues that can emerge from this subconscious learning as well. Children develop different types...
Creator:
Novak, Michael
Created:
1979-02-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
In this interview, Esther Brody discusses her early Jewish life in St. Paul and involvement in the Jewish community. She was born in 1906 to Rose and Isaac Weinstein, of Russia in St. Paul, in what is now called Lower Town, where she was raised. Brody recounts decades of work with Junior and Senior Hadassah, B'nai B'rith where she was president ...
Creator:
Brody, Esther, 1906-?
Contributor:
Markowitz, Ruth (Interviewer)
Created:
1982-09-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
This interview investigates the life and activity of Harry Rosenthal (1897 - ), leader in the St. Paul, Minnesota Jewish community over a period of several decades. Rosenthal discusses his immigration story from Eastern Europe to New York City and then St. Paul, military activity in World War I, marriage to Rose Calmenson, his business and inter...
Creator:
Rosenthal, Harry, 1897 -
Contributor:
Lapidos, Morris (Interviewer)
Created:
1982-11-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Irwine Gordon, president of the St. Paul Jewish Community Center in the 1940s, chair of the National Jewish Fund, and board member of the United Jewish fund, gives an account of some of the Jewish community initiatives in the Twin Cities. Additional topics covered in this interview include the Rosenthal family, funding initiat...
Creator:
Gordon, Irwine
Contributor:
Saltzman, Phyllis (Interviewer)
Created:
1982-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Edward Bronstein (1903 - ) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, into a family of recent Jewish settlers from Prussia who were operating a local mattress factory. In this interview, Bronstein recalls the story of his family settling in St. Paul, describes the city with particular attention to different religious groups and their relations, as well as...
Creator:
Bronstein, Edward, 1903 -
Contributor:
Devitt, Lois (Interviewer)
Created:
1982-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Rose Godes gives her account of her involvement in the Jewish community in St. Paul and some of its history. The interview covers the early history of the Daughters of Abraham, which was closely associated with the work of the Jewish Home for the Aged, and financing various initiatives for assisting the aged. This interview wa...
Creator:
Godes, Rose
Contributor:
Mack, Annette (Interviewer)
Created:
1982-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
