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Interview with Sylvia Greenfelt duration 33 minutes 42 seconds Interview with Sylvia Greenfelt Interview with Sylvia Greenfelt	Interview with Sylvia Greenfelt Sylvia Greenfelt (89) and daughter Sharon Kersten (59) talk about Sylvia’s life growing up in Harlem, New York, and Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of Jewish immigrants. war stories great depression stories immigration stories family naming and nicknames family favorite songs and poems family traditions family expressions family trips and excursions ethnicity workday life job satisfaction first impression of america marriage first meetings anecdotes (humorous but true stories) personal experiences historical events/people memories of growing up school day memories religious beliefs and practices social beliefs and practices economic beliefs and practices town life neighborhood life urban life community businesses community organizations community history schools spouse children extended family parents grandparents siblings great depression education world war ii blind hospital volunteer jewish ukraine polish poland argentina yiddish hebrew “there’s no free lunch” the golden rule paint house wallpaper paper-hanger entrepreneur pushcart peddler english integrate god religion kindness donation volunteerism new york guild for the blind american women’s hospital reserve corps military rmd jewish national fund harlem new york washington heights george washington high school reeman lechter From - UM Libraries 0 likes 0 plays 0 Access Restrictions Access to this content is limited to computers in the Richter Library on the University of Miami campus. Please visit the library to view this content. Visitors not affiliated with the University of Miami should consult the library’s patron access policy. Digital Collections Link University of Miami Digital Collections Creator Greenfelt, Sylvia Kersten, Sharon Genre Oral histories Language English Creation Date January 29, 2010 Creation Place Miami (Fla.) Contributing Unit University of Miami Libraries Repository Cuban Heritage Collection Rights Statement Courtesy of StoryCorps, a national nonprofit dedicated to recording and collecting stories of everyday people. www.storycorps.org. Any other uses of this material--for commercial or non-commercial distribution, editing, exhibition, publishing, publicly performing, publicly displaying, reproducing on a website, or quotation beyond "fair use"--requires the permission of StoryCorps. For clearance, please contact StoryCorps at http://storycorps.org/about/inquiries/. Content Type Sound Local Identifier chc52460001290001001

duration 33 minutes 42 seconds

Interview with Sylvia Greenfelt

Sylvia Greenfelt (89) and daughter Sharon Kersten (59) talk about Sylvia’s life growing up in Harlem, New York, and Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of Jewish immigrants.

war stories

great depression stories

immigration stories

family naming and nicknames

family favorite songs and poems

family traditions

family expressions

family trips and excursions

ethnicity

workday life

job satisfaction

first impression of america

marriage

first meetings

anecdotes (humorous but true stories)

personal experiences

historical events/people

memories of growing up

school day memories

religious beliefs and practices

social beliefs and practices

economic beliefs and practices

community organizations

“there’s no free lunch”

new york guild for the blind

american women’s hospital reserve corps

george washington high school

reeman

lechter

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Access Restrictions

Access to this content is limited to computers in the Richter Library on the University of Miami campus. Please visit the library to view this content. Visitors not affiliated with the University of Miami should consult the library’s patron access policy.

Digital Collections Link

University of Miami Digital Collections

Creator

Greenfelt, Sylvia

Kersten, Sharon

Genre

Oral histories

Language

English

Creation Date

January 29, 2010

Creation Place

Miami (Fla.)

Contributing Unit

University of Miami Libraries

Repository

Cuban Heritage Collection

Rights Statement

Courtesy of StoryCorps, a national nonprofit dedicated to recording and collecting stories of everyday people. www.storycorps.org. Any other uses of this material--for commercial or non-commercial distribution, editing, exhibition, publishing, publicly performing, publicly displaying, reproducing on a website, or quotation beyond "fair use"--requires the permission of StoryCorps. For clearance, please contact StoryCorps at http://storycorps.org/about/inquiries/.

Content Type

Sound

Local Identifier

chc52460001290001001