Oral history interviews of the Jews in Minnesota Oral History Project. 1967-1986.

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Oral history interviews of the Jews in Minnesota Oral History Project., 1967-1986.

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Oral history interviews of the Jews in Minnesota Oral History Project. 1967-1986.

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In 1872 the Minneapolis Federation of Jewish Service gave the Minnesota Historical Society four oral history interviews that were conducted as a part of a project to document the history of the Jewish community in Minneapolis. In 1979 Rhoda Lewin donated seventeen interviews she conducted in researching her doctoral dissertation. Lewin later conducted and donated four additional interviews. Many of the people interviewed belonged to the second wave of Jewish immigrants who arrived after 1880 from Eastern Europe and settled on the North Side of Minneapolis, creating a distinctive Jewish community of eight thousand people by 1900. Others are first-generation Americans who vividly contrast their parents' lives with their own. This collection of memories reveals the growth, change, and diversity of the community. Interviewed by Rhoda Lewin, Guida Gordan, Mrs. V. R. Gould, Joan Sharp, and June Stern.

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eng,

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Minnesota Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6648303

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Gordon, Guida, interviewer.

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Lewin, Rhoda, interviewer.

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Schoff, Florence Karp Kunian, interviewee.

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Sharp, Joan, interviewer.

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Rosenbloom, Esther Schanfield, interviewee.

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Goldfus, Charles, interviewee.

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Barron, Moses, 1883-,

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Moses Barron, M.D. (1911) University of Minnesota. Clinical professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota; published landmark articles that lead to the isolation of insulin. Moses Barron was born in 1884 in Russia and emigrated to Minnesota in 1889. He attended the University of Minnesota, receiving his medical degree in 1911. He practiced medicine and served as a clinical professor of medicine at the University until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1952. During World War I, he jo...