Jews in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Vera Nissenson Lyons

Titles: Jews in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Vera Nissenson Lyons (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Vera Nissenson Lyons was born in 1912 and came to Minneapolis in 1924 from Privarog, Russia, with her mother and father, an Orthodox rabbi. She married Arnold Labowitz (Lyons) in 1935. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in social work and worked during the first years of her marriage. She has been a local and regional officer of Hadassah, a women's Zionist organization, and served as a resource person for Judaism and Jewish holidays for the Minneapolis public schools. She also teaches kosher cooking. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Anti-Semitism in Russia, including a graphic description of a pogrom; flight from Russia to Minneapolis; life as an immigrant child; the 1930s Depression; working her way through college; the Jewish community in Minneapolis; and Jewish cooking.

Dates

• 02/11/1976 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Lyons, Vera Nissenson
• interviewer: Lewin, Rhoda G.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 131.15
• Accession Number: AV1979.142.8

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 14 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:58:11 running time

Subjects

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