| Title: |
Interview of Blanche Eskolsky Rothstein by Paul E. Sigrist, Jr., August 20, 1991
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Paid Only
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| Repository: |
Alexander Street Press
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| Collection: |
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (Subscription only)
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| URL: |
http://www.alexanderstreet4.com/cgi-bin/asp/imld/documentidx.pl?docid=S11702-D001
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1991 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Rothstein, Blanche Eskolsky, 1915-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
25-Dec-1915
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Minsk, Minsk, Belarus; Minsk, Belarus; Belarus; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Tradesman
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| Age at speaking: |
76
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| Document date: |
20-Aug-1991
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| Interviewer: |
Sigrist, Paul E., Jr., fl. 1993
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| Historical events discussed: |
Great Depression, 1929-1941; Russian Revolution, 1917-1921
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| Locations discussed: |
Asia; Belarus; Ellis Island, NJ; Europe; Latvia; Minsk, Belarus; Minsk, Minsk, Belarus; Moscow, Moskovskaya oblast, Russia; Moskovskaya oblast, Russia; New Jersey; New York; New York, NY; North America; Riga, Latvia; Russia; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Asia; Belarus; Boardinghouses; Ellis Island, NJ; English language; Europe; Great Depression, 1929-1941; Jews; Latvia; Minsk, Belarus; Minsk, Minsk, Belarus; Moscow, Moskovskaya oblast, Russia; Moskovskaya oblast, Russia; New Jersey; New York; New York, NY; North America; Riga, Latvia; Russia; Russian Revolution, 1917-1921; United States
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Apartments; Bakeries; Boats and ships; Citizenship; Communities; Crossing borders; Customs; Customs services; Domestic life; Economic depressions; Economics; Education; Entertainment and recreation; Environment; Ethnic groups; Fathers; Health; Hotels and inns; Identification documents; Immigrants and emigrants; Intellectual life; Mothers; Motion sickness; Ocean voyages; Politics; Poverty; Private tutors; Relationships; Religion; Religious beliefs; Religious practices; Reunions; Revolutions; Schools; Sociology; Storms; Synagogues; Towns; Toys; Trains; Transportation; Travel; Travel preparations; Uncles; Water supply
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0027474-29607
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