Kalmis, Jack
Dates
- Creation: undated
Interview
Jack Kalmis was interviewed by Charlotte Berman, July 18, 1987 in his Bloomfield home. His wife, Fannie Kalmis, appears in the transcript from time to time.
General Note
This interview discusses Jack Kalmis' life growing up in Ukraine until the Russian Revolution, which led him to leave with his sister to Poland and later to America where they had some family. Kalmis started in the delicatessen business in New York, where he also met his wife Fannie. They moved to Hartford around 1944/45 when Kalmis became part owner of Platt's Delicatessen on Albany Ave.. After retirement, Kalmis wrote poetry on a variety of topics, ranging from violence in Israel and the threats of nuclear warfare to comical poems.
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Albany Avenue, Hartford, CT
- Bloomfield, CT
- East Hartford, CT
- Israel
- Lower East Side
- New York
- Palestine
- Russia
Topical
- Businesses -- Clothing/Tailors
- Businesses -- Delicatessen
- Businesses -- Manufacturing
- Eastern European Jews
- Emanuel Synagogue
- Growing up Jewish in Russia
- Growing up in Russia
- Immigrant(s)
- Jewish Community
- Jewish Community Center
- Jews, Russian
- Life in Europe
- Life in Russia
- Music -- Synagogues
- Music-Choir/Chorus/Singing
- Platt's Delicatessen
- Poetry
- Pogroms
- Russian Revolution
- United Synagogues of Greater Hartford
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945
- Zionism
- pre-Nazi Europe
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository