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Field name | Value |
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Title | Interview with Selema Katz [Part 1] |
Date | n.d. |
Document Type | Oral History (Video) |
Name | Katz, Selema |
Date of Recording | n.d. |
Duration | 00:54:12 |
Library / Archive | Tenement Museum, New York |
Description | Selema talks about her life on Orchard Street, where her father’s family came from, the music and songs which were around during her childhood and how much she enjoyed Saturday pictures at the cinema. She also explains about the pushcarts in Orchard Street, how the Depression affected her family, her husband’s work during the Second World War and the flu epidemic of 1918. |
Theme(s) | Arrivals: Ports and Early Experiences; Permanent Settlement and Successive Generations; Religion, Ethnic Identity and Community Relations |
Country (from) | Romania; Austria |
Country (to) | United States of America |
Places | Connecticut, Coney Island, New York, United States |
Ports | New York City, United States |
Nationality | Romanian; Austrian; Italian; Spanish; African-American |
People | Leonard, Benny; Dempsey, Jack |
Keywords | marriage, First World War, munitions, factory, industry, electricity, trade, music, entertainment, education, food, cinema, children, animals, sanitation, religion, Jewish, literature, newspaper, press, crime, Depression, navy, Second World War, epidemic, flu, health and sickness, death, societies, measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis |
Language | English |
Document(s) linked to |
Interview with Selema Katz [Part 2] |
Copyright | Tenement Museum, New York |