Klau, Joseph_1974/4/17, Oral History, April 17, 1974
Scope and Contents
Subjects of interview include:
Tape One: Growing up Jewish in Hartford, Jewish political involvement, attending law school
Tape Two: Wife, Sadie Caulton Klau, Hartford Jewish Community
Judge Joseph Klau reflects on his childhood growing up in Hartford, the fact that twins run in his family (his mother, his sisters, his daughters, grandchildren), involvement in a protest while at Hartford High when the administration wanted to extend the school day an hour (and thus cutting into the time students could work after school), debating club, going to Harvard for college and law school, meeting/marrying his wife Sadie and starting their family, early career as a lawyer, politics in Hartford, going to Washington to work as a bond attorney for the Public Works Administration during the depression, moving back to Connecticut, Zionist activities, and his early career as a Judge.
Dates
- Creation: April 17, 1974
Language of Materials
There is some Yiddish written in transliteration and it is translated.
Interview
Judge Joseph E. Klau was interviewed by Attorney Joseph D. Hurwitz at a Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Program at the Hartford Jewish Community Center on April 17, 1974.
Full Extent
2 Cassettes (2 cassettes, one recorded side 1-2, continues on side 1 only of second tape. Both tapes labeled #70.)
Container Summary
Box 3: cassette tape #70 tape one, side one, two-
w/ written Transcript
tape two, side one- no Transcript
Genre / Form
- Education
- Family History
- Great Depression
- Jewish Education
- Law
- Politics
- oral histories (literary works)
Geographic
- Albany Avenue, Hartford, CT
- Barbour Street, Hartford, CT
- Earle Street, Hartford, CT
- Front Street, Hartford, CT
- Hartford, CT
- North End -- Hartford, CT
- Windsor Street, Hartford, CT
Occupation
Topical
- American Jewish Congress
- Arsenal School
- Balfour Declaration of 1917
- Bellevue Street, Hartford, CT
- Bulkeley Bridge
- Businesses & Professions -- Lawyer
- Civil War (United States)
- Depression Era
- Emanuel Synagogue
- Family Life in Hartford
- Growing up Jewish in Hartford
- Growing up in Hartford
- Hartford Public High School
- Hartford Public Schools
- Harvard University
- Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford
- Labor Zionism
- Philanthropy
- Red Scare
- Religious Life
- South End Talmud Torah
- War Veterans
- Young Judaea of Connecticut
- Zionism
- Zionist Organization of America
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository