[T1S1] description of the Hill District of Pittsburgh in the 1920s and 1930s; names of Jewish merchants in business there at that time; father a shoemaker from Lithuania; lifestyle there during prohibition; art classes at the Irene Kaufmann Settlement; brother Charles Gordon, founder of "Doc Gordon Club" for boys; studying dentistry at the University of Pittsburgh; opens an office with his brother Charles, a dentist also; retirement at age seventy-seven; resumes interest in art after fifty years; prizes for art and exhibitions in early life; his siblings and their lives; changes in Pittsburgh since his childhood.
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.171_t1s1
Relation
ais196440.171
"Gordon, Herman - 1989" Metadata
Metadata Details
Title
Gordon, Herman - 1989
Creator
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pittsburgh Section
Description
Herman Gordon, a dentist for fifty-six years in Pittsburgh and the son of Benjamin Gordon of Gordon's Shoes; birth date, March 26, 1912.
Contributor
Gordon, Herman (interviewee), Graff, Doris;Gordon, Debra (interviewer), University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1989
Type
oral histories (literary genre), Sound
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.171
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