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Interview with Blanche Halpern Goldberg
Goldberg, Blanche Halpern
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Blanche Halpern Goldberg was born in Minneapolis in about 1906. Her family had come from Politork, Romania, in 1900. In 1910 they moved to Hebron, North Dakota, returning to Minneapolis in 1921. She is one of twelve Halpern children. She attended West…
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Interview with Ernie Fliegel
Fliegel, Ernie
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Ernie Fliegel was born in Barlad, Romania, in 1904 and came to the United States in 1910 with his grandmother, mother, brother and sister. (His father was also in this country but had little contact with the family). His mother worked in a New York…
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Interview with Lillian Besler Cohn
Cohn, Lillian Bessler
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Lillian Besler Cohn was born in Minneapolis in 1895 of immigrant parents (from Niomsk, Romania). Her father had been a miller. In this country he worked on a farm in New York and at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. In Minneapolis he worked as a miller with…
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Interview with Nathan M. Shapiro
Shapiro, Nathan M.
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Nathan M. (Nate) Shapiro was born in Minneapolis in May of 1911. His father had come to Milwaukee several years earlier and then moved to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, to work as a coppersmith for Leinenkugel Breweries. Next his father moved to Minneapolis,…
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Interview with Edward P. Schwartz
Schwartz, Edward P.
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Edward P. Schwartz was born in Minneapolis in 1903. He was a newspaper reporter, weekly newspaper publisher and publicist, particularly for show business. He inherited and expanded his father's business (Schwartz Printing and Ad Art Advertising). …
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Interview with Florence Karp Kunian Schoff
Schoff, Florence Karp Kunian
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
In 1904 Florence Karp's parents came to the United States from Russia, where her father was a university student, and Karp was born in New York City on May 28, 1906. After two years in New York, the family moved to South Dakota to raise sheep. Five years…
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Interview with Maurice Schanfield
Schanfield, Maurice
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Maurice Schanfield's father came to Canada from Romania in 1883, landing in Montreal and working on the Canadian Pacific Railroad until reaching Winnipeg - from there the family hitchhiked to Minneapolis. Schanfield was born in 1904 in Minneapolis. His…
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Interview with Ida Levitan Sanders
Sanders, Ida Levitan
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Ida Levitan Sanders was born in Russia in 1900 and arrived in Minneapolis in 1905. She married Max Sanders - they had two children, David and Mrs. Deera Tychman. She is an active member of Talmud Torah Auxiliary and Alumni and is a founder of Young…
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Interview with Esther Schanfield Rosenbloom
Rosenbloom, Esther Schanfield
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Esther Schanfield's family came to Minneapolis in the early 1900s, prospered and became community leaders. She studied music at the University of Minnesota and the Julliard School of Music in Boston. She married Eli Rosenbloom in 1924, and they had two…
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Interview with Shepsel (S.R.) Roberts
Roberts, Shepsel R.
Jews -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Shepsel Roberts was born in Russia in 1914 and came to Minneapolis in 1921 with his parents and older brother and sister. He was educated at Yeshiva (Jewish school) in Chicago, married his wife Tibey at age 21 and has four children. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED:…
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