- Title Information
- Title
- Cecile L. Kantrowitz, class of 1930
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Cecile L. Kantrowitz, class of 1930
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Kantrowitz, Cecile L.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Friedland, Susan J.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1990-06
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- Cecile begins her interview by explaining her Russian heritage and Jewish
upbringing, her father's career as a Hebrew teacher and cantor and tracing her roots to Baal
Shem Tov. She discusses her education at Classical High School; her mother's liberated
beliefs; and why she chose Pembroke. Regarding her education at Pembroke, Cecile describes her
first days; joining Phi Beta Kappa; being a student of languages. She discusses founding the
Debating Club and going against the grain by not doing homework and by rejecting certain dress
codes. Cecile closes by sharing her failed elopement with her husband; using the Brown
library; and looking up to the Pembroke deans as role models.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1930
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Cecile Lena Kantowitz
Israel was born in 1910 in New Jersey, but spent her adolescence and young adulthood in
Providence, Rhode Island. Educated at Classical High School, she attended Pembroke College in
the late 1920s. Cecile showed an interest in languages, becoming fluent in French and German,
as well as the Yiddish she spoke growing up. She was a founder and board member of the
Pembroke-Brown Debating Club and received a number of scholastic accolades. After graduation,
Cecile conducted oral language examinations for the Civil Service and was involved with the
NAACP. She married her husband, Fred Israel, in 1930.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1930s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Clothing and Fashion
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dating
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Family
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Race Relations
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Religion
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Sexism
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Social Life
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Student Activities
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)