Hinda Miller €“05 December 2006 €“ To Life! A Celebration of Vermont Jewish Women

About this film

Ann Zinn Buffum and Sandra Stillman Gartner, project directors, interviewed Hinda Miller on December 5 2006 in Burlington, Vermont as part of DAVAR's oral history project. Hinda Miller was born in Montreal, Canada 1950. Her grandfather had come to Canada in 1919 to close a failing Montreal furniture business owned by his uncle. Growing up in Montreal was a great experience for Hinda. The family was part of a large Jewish community and belonged to a Conservative Synagogue called Shaar Hashomayim. In the early 1960âs few young women were Bat Mitzvahed or confirmed but she did attend Hebrew school. In a nod to her motherâs upbringing, Hinda was educated at an Anglican girls' school. She recalls singing hymns in the morning and Jewish chants in the afternoon, until, in her teens, some subtle anti-semitic remarks at a school dance led her to ask to attend public school. After graduating from Westmount High School at age 17, she went to Parsons School of Design in New York City and settled permanently in the United States. She spent a year doing window displays for a store on West 57th and then enrolled at New York University as a theater major in costume design. In the late 1970's she m…

Directors & creators

Producer: DAVAR: The Vermont Jewish Women's History Project

Subjects

Vermont; Champlain Shakespeare Festival

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