Ida (Farber) Katz
Dates
- Creation: August 26, 1974
Interview
Sylvia Sheketoff interviewed Ida and Abraham Katz at their home at 5 Highland Stree, West Hartford on August 26, 1974.
Language of Materials
English
General Note
This file contains two seperate oral history interviews, both conducted on the same day. One is with Abraham Katz, the other is with his wife Ida.
Topics covered in Abraham Katz's interview:
Growing up (Orthodox) Jewish in Hartford, regular and Jewish education, keeping kosher, time at Hartford Public High, going to Yale when very few Jews could (some undergrad, special degree to Law school), helped getting Jews into the YMCA, changing Hartford after war/people moving out, meeting and marrying wife, various fraternal organizations (including one of the few Jews admitted to the Elks, son Morton first Jew elected head of Elks ca. 1970), connections in the Hartford Jewish community, participation in Hartford government.
Topics covered in Ida Katz's interview:
Growing up as an (Orthodox) Jewish girl in Hartford, Father’s mattress business, Summers spent at Woodmont and Savin Rock (Charles Abuza had a hotel at the later), Learning to drive when most women didn’t/her father’s crank start car, Her young married life, (Sort of) keeping kosher (Yes as child, partially as an adult with her own home), Start of The Emanuel, Raising money for Emanuel synagogue organ.
Genre / Form
- Education
- Family History
- Immigration
- Jewish Education
- Jewish War Veterans
- Music
- Orthodox Judaism
- Politics
- oral histories (literary works)
Geographic
Occupation
Topical
- Aaron Lodge
- Ados Israel (Market St. Shul, moved to Pearl St.)
- Agudas Achim (Rumanishe Shul)
- B'nai B'rith
- Barnard-Brown Schools
- Bushnell Memorial Hall
- Businesses & Professions -- Lawyer
- Child Labor
- Children
- Community Chest
- Emanuel Synagogue
- Flood of 1936
- Floods
- Fraternal Organizations
- Fraternal Organizations/Masons/Knights of Pythias
- G. Fox & Co.
- Growing up Jewish
- Growing up Jewish in Hartford
- Growing up in Hartford
- Hartford Board of Education
- Hartford Public High School
- Hartford Public Schools
- Hartford Theatre
- Hartford history
- Hartt School
- Hebrew Congregation of Woodmont
- Honiss Oyster House
- Immigrant(s)
- Jewish Organizations
- Jews, Russian
- Keeping Kosher/Kashrut
- Knights of Pythias
- Kosher Products
- Morgan Street
- Music -- Synagogues
- Music-Choir/Chorus/Singing
- Opera
- Pleasant Street, Hartford, CT
- Religious Education
- Religious Life
- Sports -- Dancing
- Talmud Torah
- Temple Beth Israel
- Trolley cars
- War Veterans
- YMHA
- Yale University
- Yeshiva of Hartford
- Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA)
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository