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Yiddish

 Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 144 Collections and/or Records:

Meetings and Programs/1976 May 12/Sadie Klau interview, May 12, 1976

 File — Box 20
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: May 12, 1976

Neiditz, Tillie

 File — Flat_file_folder 5
Scope and Contents

Subjects of interview include: Life in New Jersey; family life in Hartford; Jewish education; Yiddish as a language spoken at home; Hartford history.

Dates: 1960s-2020s

Neiditz,Tillie_1983/01/26,Oral History

 Digital Record
Identifier: neiditz, tillie_1983/01/26

Okolica, Rabbi Henry, undated

 File — Flat_file_folder 5
Scope and Contents

Subjects of interview include: Holocaust, immigration, migration from new York to Alabama, Reform Judaism, migration to Connecticut, Ohio, and Daytona, jewish identity, education, family and lack thereof, adapting to America



Dates: undated

Oral History Tape Transcript, 1973

 Item — Folder Zeldis, Louis
Scope and Contents

Subjects of interview include: Shtetl life in Russia before and during World War 1; immigration to Hartford; Russian antisemitism under Czarist Russia; Synagogues in Hartford; membership in Beth David; Zionism and support of Israel; poetry.

Dates: 1973

Oral History Tape Transcript/interview of Goldstein's son Ellie -- tapes 163, 164, undated

 File — Box 2: Series 2
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents

Oral History transcript from interview on August 15, 1977 of Ellie Goldstein by Emma Cohen. Also contains note about spelling errors

Ellie Golstein offers insight into the life of his parents, primarily his father, and also recalls his own childhood.

Dates: undated

Palten, Sylvia

 Digital Record
Identifier: palten, sylvia_1968.pdf

Palten, Sylvia, undated

 File — Flat_file_folder 5
Scope and Contents

Subjects of Interview include: Growing up Jewish in Russia before World War I; experience with a Pogrom related to the unrest of 1905; immigration to Hartford; Hartford jewish culture

Dates: undated

Pessin, Celia

 Digital Record
Identifier: pessin, celia_1968.pdf

Pessin, Celia, undated

 File — Flat_file_folder 5
Scope and Contents

Celie discusses with Emma Cohen growing up in Hartford, organizations (such as Hadassah), the Jewish Community, Working with Mother with the Sick Education, Nursing children, and Family. She also talks about her Son fighting in WWII. The start of the interview includes Cohen listing off Pessin's Honors.



Dates: undated