Meetings and Programs/1976 May 12/Sadie Klau interview
Dates
- Creation: May 12, 1976
Creator
- Cohen, Emma Perlstein (Hartford, CT) (Interviewer, Person)
Interview
Sadie Klau was interviewed by Emma Cohen on May 12, 1976 at a regular meeting of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford at the Hartford Jewish Community Center. The interview was continued on July 6, 1976 at Klau Home, Bloomfield, CT.
Language of Materials
English
General Note
Sadie Klau reflects on her childhood and young adult years growing up in Hartford. She talks about her parents and family’s life in Russia before they immigrated to Hartford when she was an infant. She also speaks about the roll of Yiddish in the immigration/assimilation process, how her grandmother was much more observant than the rest of her family, shared memories with Emma Cohen about their school days, meeting her husband Judge Joseph Klau, her time at Connecticut State Agricultural College, life in Hartford during the Depression and her participation in a successful milk station for malnourished children, her involvement in politics, move to Washington D.C. during the 1930s for her husband’s job as an attorney for the Public Works Department, birth of her children, returning to Connecticut in 1935, becoming Justice of the Peace, stepping out of politics to not affect her husband’s career as a judge, creation of the Women’s Division of the American Jewish Congress, work as a substitute teacher, her children and grandchildren, visiting Israel, and her mother and her mother’s family.
Missing section of interview
A section of the interview was not transcribed because it was incomprehensible. From the little that was recorded in the transcript, it looked like it was about Agudas Achim and Black-Jewish relations in Hartford.
Subject
- Hurewitz, Isaac S. , 1868-1935 (Rabbi) (Person)
- Wise, Stephen S. , Rabbi (Person)
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, First Lady (New York, NY) (Person)
Genre / Form
- Education
- Family History
- Genocide
- Great Depression
- Immigration
- Jewish Education
- Music
- Politics
- Theatre, Yiddish
- Yiddish
- oral histories (literary works)
Geographic
- Front Street, Hartford, CT
- Governer Street, Hartford, CT
- Hartford, CT
- Israel
- Keney Park (Hartford, Conn.)
- Market Street, Hartford, CT
- Russia
- Windsor Street, Hartford, CT
- Wooster Street, Hartford, CT
Occupation
- Businesses & Professions -- Builders
- Businesses & Professions -- Judge, Legal
- Businesses & Professions -- Teaching
Topical
- American Jewish Congress
- Barnard-Brown Schools
- Bellevue Street, Hartford, CT
- Beth Hamedrash Hagodol (Garden Street Synagogue)
- Beth Hamedrash Hagodol (Garden Street Synagogue)
- Connecticut State Agricultural College
- Depression Era
- Family
- Family Life
- Family Life in Hartford
- Growing up Jewish
- Growing up Jewish in Hartford
- Growing up in Hartford
- Hartford Public High School
- Hartford Public Schools
- Hartford Seminary
- Hebrew Ladies' Old People's Association
- Immigrant(s)
- Jewish Community
- Jewish Daily Forward [Forverts]
- Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford
- Jewish families
- Jews, Russian
- Keeping Kosher/Kashrut
- Life in Russia
- Northeast School
- Pleasant Street, Hartford, CT
- Religious Life
- Russian Revolution
- Six Day War, 1967
- Socialism
- United Jewish Charities of Hartford
- Weaver High School
- Women's Auxiliary
- Zionism
- Zionist Organization of America
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository