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Dr. Louis Levinson interview Item #135

Dr. Louis Levinson was a veterinarian, politician, and WWI army veteran from Middletown, Delaware. He grew up on a farm in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, where he acquired his love of caring for animals, and went on to study veterinary medicine at the…

Tags: Activist, Agriculture, Early Life/Childhood, Family Life, Immigration, Jewish Federation of Delaware, Jewish Life, Langhorne Pennsylvania Jewish Community, Mayor, Middletown Delaware Jewish Community, Racism, School Life, Veteran, Veterinarian, World War One

Dora Markowitz interview Item #134

Dora Markowitz was a Polish immigrant who moved to the U.S. in her late teens. Though she originally worked as a milliner in New York City, she became a homemaker and a farmer after she and her husband purchased farmland in Kent County, Delaware.…

Tags: Agriculture, Childhood/Early Life, Family Life, Farmer, Great Depression, Homemaker, Immigration, Jewish Agricultural Society, Jewish Life, Milliner, Southern Delaware, Southern Delawarean Jewish Community

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