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Jews in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Angelo Cohn
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| Description | BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Angelo Cohn was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1914, and in 1920 he immigrated with his parents and two brothers to the United States, where they joined an extended family of cousins in Minneapolis. Both his parents were professionally trained, his mother as a language teacher and his father as a lawyer. Angelo Cohn graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1936 with a degree in journalism and worked as a reporter on the Minneapolis Star. He married in 1948 and has three children. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Immigration of his extended family; early life in the Minneapolis immigrant community, including geographical locations of community institutions and synagogues; education and recreation; the Depression; religious institutions; bootlegging; anti-Semitism; and the Teamsters strike in 1934. |
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| Quantity | 1 hour sound cassette 15 pages transcript |
| Format | Content Category: sound recordings Content Category: text |
| Measurements | 01:01:54 running time |
| Creation | Narrator: Cohn, Angelo Interviewer: Lewin, Rhoda Greene |
| Subjects |
Jews |
| Dates | Creation: 05/05/1976 |
| Holding Type | Oral History - Interview |
| ID Number | OH 131 |
| Accession Number | AV1979.142.1 |
| Related Collections | Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Jews in Minnesota Oral History Project' |