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Arts & Entertainment

Book Party

The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford

Invites the Entire Community

To a Book Party at 7 PM

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on Tuesday, December 14

Chase Gallery, Mandell Jewish Community Center

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335 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford

 

A History of Jewish Connecticut:

Mensches, Migrants and Mitzvahs

Edited by Betty N. Hoffman 

During the Revolutionary War, Sephardic Jews fled British-occupied New York to become the first Jewish families in Connecticut. This long Jewish history is explored in a collection of essays by historians and community members across the state, from colonial times and the role Jews played in the Civil War to memories of summer nights at Lebanon's Grand Lake Lodge and Danbury's Lake Waubeeka. Join Editor Betty N. Hoffman and company as they recount tales of Kid Kaplan, the Meriden Buzz Saw, who became boxing's 1925 Featherweight Champion of the World; the Lender family, who "bagelized America"; and the graceful personal service of Marlow's Department Store in Manchester to reveal a fascinating and intimate portrait of Jewish Connecticut.

For further information: 860-727-6171: http://www.jhsgh.org/

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