Jews in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Shepsel (S.R.) Roberts

Titles: Jews in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Shepsel (S.R.) Roberts (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Shepsel Roberts was born in Russia in 1914 and came to Minneapolis in 1921 with his parents and older brother and sister. He was educated at Yeshiva (Jewish school) in Chicago, married his wife Tibey at age 21 and has four children. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Immigration and poverty; his family's chicken business; selling newspapers as a boy; peddling; the Depression; his work as a shochet (ritual butcher) and mohel (ritual circumciser); and the role of religion in his life.

Dates

• 03/05/1976 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Roberts, Shepsel R.
• interviewer: Lewin, Rhoda G.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 131.18
• Accession Number: AV1979.142.10

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 6 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:26:33 running time

Subjects

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