Jews in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Angelo Cohn

Titles: Jews in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Angelo Cohn (Supplied title)

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.

Dates

• 05/05/1976 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Cohn, Angelo
• interviewer: Lewin, Rhoda G.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 131.4
• Accession Number: AV1979.142.1

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Jews in Minnesota Oral History Project' <OH 131>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 15 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:01:54 running time

Subjects

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