Growing up Jewish in Hartford
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 202 Collections and/or Records:
Jewish Women in WWII Project/Oral Histories/Katz, Rosalyn Natalie
Digital Record
Identifier: katz, roslyn
Jewish Women in WWII Project/Oral Histories/Novarr, Sylvia Greenbaum
Digital Record
Identifier: novarr, sylvia_1983
Kagan, Marcia_1990, Oral History, October 14, 1990
Item — Box 26, Box: 486
Identifier: 486
Interview
Life in Hartford, Jewish life in Hartford, family history.
Pessin’s Deli on Windsor Street owned by her father and his brother.
A brother died in World War II
Career as a social worker
Religious life and education
Grandparents switched from Ados Israel to Agudas Achim.
This interview does NOT talk about Marcia's experience during WWII.
Dates:
October 14, 1990
Katz, Abraham and Ida (Farber), August 26, 1974
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
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,...
Dates:
August 26, 1974
Katz, Abraham_1974, Oral History, August 26, 1974
Item — Box OHC-4, Box: 8, Box: 1
Identifier: 76
Abstract
GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONTape No.: 76
No. of Tapes:
Name of Interviewee: Katz, Abraham
Date of Interview: August 16, 1974
Occupation: Lawyer
Date of Birth: January 2, 1892
Place of Birth: Hartford, CT
Transcript (yes/no): yes
No. of Pages: 18Abstract: Mr. Katz attended the Brown School through first grade and then transferred to the Second North School. He continued on to Hartford Public High School, graduating in...
Dates:
August 26, 1974
Katz, Captain Roslyn, October 4, 1983
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
Oral history outlines Roslyn Katz's life as told by her sister Gertrude after Roslyn's passing. Covers childhood as well as service in Calcutta, India, as well as her life after the service. Katz earned her degree at UCONN in Home Economics, became a teacher for a short time at the John Fitch High School in Windsor, which she disliked. She then worked in several New York Hospitals and learned to be a dietician. When World War II was gearing up, she signed up to join the WACS, serving as a...
Dates:
October 4, 1983