Cohen family papers, 1896-1998.

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Cohen family papers, 1896-1998.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58525096

The collection includes papers, family histories, photographs, and home movies relating to the Cohen, Tooter (also spelled Tudor), Dimand, and Freedman families, chiefly of Blytheville, Ark.; New London, Conn.; New York, N.Y.; and Minsk and Odessa, Russia. Papers document military service with the Seabees, a Naval construction regiment, during World War II; the S.J. Cohen Company; elementary education in Russia; civil engineering education in the United States; immigration; and ethnic cooking. Materials include personal and business correspondence, immigration and citizenship papers, military papers, school materials, recipes, newspaper clippings, postcards, and financial materials. Some of the school materials are in Russian (translations included). Family history materials include oral history interviews and transcripts, recorded by Marcie Cohen Ferris, that document emigration of Russian Jews and their adjustment to life in the United States in the 1910s. Family photographs document children and adults at play and family gatherings from the early 1900s to the 1960s, Russian military dress in the 1910s, a United States military base in the Pacific during World War II, and construction sites related to work done by the S.J. Cohen Company. Other photographs document African American sharecroppers, cotton farming, and a hunting camp. Home movies, filmed by Jerry Cohen, record the history of significant construction and engineering projects of S.J. Cohen Company. The films also record daily life in the Cohen family, including Temple Israel and the Jewish community of Blytheville, as well as family vacations and visits to Huddy Howoritz Cohen's home and family in New London. Slides are chiefly of family vacations and S.J. Cohen Company engineering projects.

ca. 4500 items (10.0 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7765953

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Tooter family.

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Cohen, Jerome, 1922-

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Cohen, Samuel J., 1897-1954.

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Cohen, Luba Tooter, 1897-1985.

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Cohen family.

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Samuel J. Cohen (Jimmy) and Luba Tooter Cohen, both immigrants from Russia, were married in New York, N.Y., in 1920. They moved to Blytheville, Ark., where Jimmy worked in construction, evenutally opening his own business, S.J. Cohen Company. Their son Jerome Cohen (1922- ) later joined the family business. Both Jimmy and Jerry served in World War II. From the description of Cohen family papers, 1896-1998. WorldCat record id: 58525096 ...

United States. Navy. Seabees

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Ferris, Marcie Cohen

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Marcie Cohen Ferris (1957- ) was born in Blytheville, Ark., to Jerome and Hudda Cohen. Ferris received her B.A. from Brown University in 1981, her M.A. from the College of William and Mary in 1985, and her Ph.D. from George Washington University in 2003. In 2004, she joined the American Studies faculty at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she regularly teaches seminars exploring the history of the Jewish experience in the American South, American Jewish women, and the meanin...

S.J. Cohen Company.

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Friedman family.

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Diamond family.

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