Insurance

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Brief biographical sketch of Theodore Kaplan and his various work and community activities. Almost nothing on his wife.

Scope and Contents Interview subjects include: Jewish family life on Connecticut farm; dairy and egg production; poverty; family influence in Colchester; family selling farm and moving to Hartford in 1928; clothing store; insurance business; being restricted from hotels; Mildred's career as teacher; teaching jobs excluded from jews in Hartford; teaching jobs excluded from Catholics in Hartford; father's early death; marriage to Maurice Levin; Mildred's sons; Zionism; Mother active in Hadassah; Mildred active...

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Contents of folder include: correspondence regarding induction into Jewish Athlete hall of Fame; flyers advertising induction; 3 drafts of induction speech; handwriten notes; photocopies of handwritten notes; data sheet; typed data sheets; news clippings.

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Press release not used

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Subjects of interview include: Music career; insurance career; early life in Jewish neighborhood in Hartford; anti-semitism from Italian children; later participation in National Guard.

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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.

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Subjects of interview include: early life in Hartford; father's shoe business; Jewish education; fundraising for Jewish Federation; Trinity Hillel house

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Subjects of interview include: Hartford history circa 1900; family life in Hartford; father's immigration from Austria; father's business as cattle dealer and butcher; early Jewish education and inability to go to college; husband's music career