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Field name | Value |
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Title | Interview with Irving Helpern [Part 1] |
Date | 4 Feb 1989 |
Document Type | Oral History (Audio) |
Name | Helpern, Irving |
Interviewer | Jacobson Jr, Robert |
Date of Recording | 4 Feb 1989 |
Duration | 00:14:14 |
Library / Archive | Tenement Museum, New York |
Description | Irving remembers growing up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the apartment block they lived in during the early 1900s and their life as children in New York. He touches on how his parents were strictly Orthodox Jewish and how this affected their cooking habits. |
Theme(s) | Permanent Settlement and Successive Generations; Religion, Ethnic Identity and Community Relations |
Ports | New York City, United States |
Nationality | Russian |
People | Helpern, Irving |
Keywords | children, poverty, finance, family, education, employment, business, clothing, morality, entertainment, food, music, religion, Jewish |
Language | English |
Document(s) linked to |
Interview with Irving Helpern [Part 2] |
Copyright | Tenement Museum, New York |