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Interview with Maurice and Anna Lee Wolff
Wolff, Maurice
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Anna Lee (Mrs. Maurice) Wolff was born in Minneapolis in 1886. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1908 and married Maurice Wolff in 1909. In 1914 she was the first president of the Women's Auxiliary of the Temple of Aaron. In 1918 she was a founder…
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Interview with Albert G. Minda
Minda, Albert Greenberg
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Albert G. Minda was born July 30, 1895, in Holton, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1918, did postgraduate work at the Universities of Chicago, Columbia and Minnesota, and was ordained rabbi at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati…
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Interview with Moses Barron
Barron, Moses
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Moses Barron was born in Russia in 1883, son of a Hebrew scholar. He came to the United States in 1888 and lived on a farm in Stevens County. Barron attended elementary school in Fargo, North Dakota, and in 1911 he graduated from the University of…
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Interview with Rabbi David Aronson
Aronson, Rabbi David
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Rabbi David Aronson's father was from White Russia, and his mother was from Latvia. Aronson was born in White Russia and came to the United States with his family at age eleven. The family lived on New York's East Side. Aronson went to day school for one…
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Interview with Slovie Kissen-Marver
Kissen-Marver, Slovie
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Slovie Kissen was born April 23, 1905, in St. Paul. Her father was Rabbi Wolfe Kissin, who came to St. Paul from London via Kansas City, Missouri, to open a private Hebrew school, Rev. Kissin's Parochial School. Later he became principal of the newly…
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Interview with Gladys Jacobs Field
Field, Gladys Jacobs
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Gladys Jacobs was born in 1903 and raised in Minneapolis. Her father operated Jacobs Jewelry in Minneapolis, and her mother's family was involved in the G. Pflaum and Sons cigar factory in St. Anthony. Jacobs married Harold Finkelstein (of the Finkelstein…
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Interview with Charles Goldfus
Goldfus, Charles
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Charles Goldfus was born Oct. 1, 1897, in north Minneapolis. Both parents were from Lithuania. In 1929 he married Sylvia Jacobs of St. Paul. Goldfus opened a liquor store in downtown Minneapolis in 1934, and in the 1940s he became a partner in the Dorset…
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Interview with Amos Deinard
Deinard, Amos
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Amos Deinard was raised near Lake Minnetonka and later resided in Minneapolis. He was a prominent Jewish figure in Minnesota. In 1933 he married his sister's close friend. Together they raised their son and daughter. Among the many positions he served he…
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Interview with Ben Brochin
Brochin, Ben
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Ben Brochin was born in Minneapolis on Sept. 2, 1909, to Solomon Brochin (1878-1958) and Anna Levinson Brochin (1883-1947), who came to Minneapolis from Lithuania in 1906. Solomon Brochin ran a grocery store (later a delicatessen) in North Minneapolis.…
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Interview with William Mayberg
Mayberg, William
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
William Mayberg was born in Russia in 1887. He married in 1911, came to the United States in 1913, and had two sons. He was self-educated but was a teacher most of his life. He also operated small grocery stores in Minneapolis and St. Paul. He died in…
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