| Title |
Mr. Max Cowan, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Ralph DeRose and Hynda Rudd, August 18, 1972 |
| Alternative Title |
Max Cowan |
| Creator |
Cowan, Max, 1907-1978 |
| Contributor |
DeRose, Ralph; Rudd, Hynda |
| Date |
1972-08-18 |
| Date Digital |
4/29/2016 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Access Rights |
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| Subject |
Cowan, Max, 1907-1978--Interviews; Jews--Utah--Interviews; Judaism--Utah; Utah--Ethnic relations; Immigrants--Utah |
| Description |
Transcript (42 pages) of an interview by Ralph DeRose and Hynda Rudd with Max Cowan on August 18, 1972. From tape number H-6 in the Jewish Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Mr. Cowan (b. 1907) discusses his birth in the Ukraine, the move to Denver and Salt Lake City, the Jewish community in Salt Lake City, the livestock industry in Europe and the U.S., anti-Semnitism, Victor Kratke, and life for the Jewish settlers in Utah. |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
42 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6sx8ksb |
| Topic |
Jews--Interviews; Judaism; Ethnic relations; Immigrants |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Setname |
uum_johp |
| ID |
918720 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sx8ksb |
| Title |
Page 9 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_johp |
| ID |
918681 |
| OCR Text |
Show MAX COWAN AUGUST 18, 1972 RD: I see. What b r ought h im to Salt La ke? MC: Oh, he never did get here . I migrate d f r om Denver t o Salt Lake in 1930. RD: Oh, 1930. What sort of work did you do? MC: Well, originally when I came to Salt Lake, I was in the jewelry business. I worked for a jewelry store here, Anderson. Remember Anderson Jewelry? HR: Yes. MC: I worked for them because I had been in the jewelry business in Denver. That is, I was a jewelry clerk. I only worked for them a year. Then I went into the livestock business myself. That was a family business that I inherited. RD: I see. Is that the work you did throughout your life? MC: Well, that is what I done all my life here, all except one year. HR: When you came here how did you find the Jewish community? MC: Well, I think in numbers, they had as many Jews then as they have here now. In fact, they had the two Synagogues and the Temple. The Shaare Tzedek was still operating at that time. Remember? HR: We have discussed this. RD: We were talking about Shaare Tzedek congregation. How long was it in existence? MC: Well, it was in existence when I got here, so it must 3 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sx8ksb/918681 |
