Published on September 7th, 2016 | by LedgerOnline By Cindy Mindell WEST HARTFORD – More than 100 years ago, German-Jewish philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch set up a charitable enterprise that would save thousands of co-religionists from the scourge of pogroms in 19th-century Russia and, after his death, from the ravages of the Holocaust. His … Continue reading Conversation with Sam Gejdenson: A former U.S. congressman talks about growing up Jewish on a Connecticut farm