Interviews with Jews in Utah collection [transcripts]
Scope and Contents
The interviews with Jews in Utah collection [transcripts] (1982-1988) is part of a project funded by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities and undertaken by the Oral History Institute of Salt Lake City, Utah. The goal of the project was to conduct interviews with members of ethnic minorities in Utah and document the degree to which ethnic cultures have been impacted by the greater Utah culture. These interviews were conducted between 1982 and 1986 by Leslie Kelan and Lorraine Ferra. Events recalled by the interviewees span the time period from the 1880s to 1986. Common themes include family life, immigration, relations with the LDS community, religious activity, the unification of the congregations Montefiore and B'nai Israel, Jewish businesses and organizations, and World War II.
Dates
- Creation: 1982-1988
Creator
- University of Utah. Oral History Institute (Issuing body, Organization)
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Extent
5 Linear Feet (6 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The interviews with Jews in Utah collection [transcripts] (1982-1988) is part of a project funded by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities and undertaken by the Oral History Institute of Salt Lake City, Utah. Events recalled by the interviewees span the time period from the 1880s to 1986. Common themes include family life, immigration, relations with the LDS community, religious activity, the unification of the congregations Montefiore and B'nai Israel, Jewish businesses and organizations, and World War II.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from the Oral History Institute in 1988.
Separated Materials
See also the Jewish oral history project audio recordings (A0324) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Processing Information
Processed by Karen Carver in 2005.
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Subject
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 (Person)
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 (Person)
- Temple B'nai Israel (Salt Lake City, Utah) (Organization)
- Congregation Montefiore Synagogue (Salt Lake City, Utah) (Organization)
- Congregation Shaary Tzedek (Salt Lake City, Utah) (Organization)
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Antisemitism
- Children of immigrants -- Utah -- Interviews
- Conservative Judaism
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
- Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Interviews
- Germans -- United States -- Interviews
- Immigrants -- Utah -- Interviews
- Jewish businesspeople -- Utah
- Jewish sects
- Jewish way of life -- 20th century -- Interviews
- Jewish women -- Religious life -- Utah -- Interviews
- Jewish women -- Utah -- Interviews
- Jews -- 20th century -- Cultural assimilation -- Interviews
- Jews -- Dietary laws
- Jews -- Persecutions -- Interviews
- Jews -- Utah -- 20th century -- Interviews
- Jews -- Utah -- Identity -- 20th century -- Interviews
- Jews -- Utah -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Interviews
- Latter Day Saint churches -- Relations -- Judaism
- Polish people -- United States -- Interviews
- Reform Judaism
- Russians -- United States -- Interviews
- Women in Judaism
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945
- Zionism
- Zionism -- Israel
- Title
- Inventory of the interviews with Jews in Utah collection [transcripts]
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Karen Carver.
- Date
- 2005 (last modified: 2019)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu