Albany Avenue, Hartford, CT
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Kalmis, Jack, undated
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
undated
Kalmis, Jack_1987,Oral History, July 18, 1987
Item — Box 23, Box: 409
Identifier: 409
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
July 18, 1987
Klau, Joseph_1974/4/17, Oral History, April 17, 1974
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 70
Scope and Contents
Subjects of interview include:
Tape One: Growing up Jewish in Hartford, Jewish political involvement, attending law school
Tape Two: Wife, Sadie Caulton Klau, Hartford Jewish Community
Judge Joseph Klau reflects on his childhood growing up in Hartford, the fact that twins run in his family (his mother, his sisters, his daughters, grandchildren), involvement in a protest while at Hartford High when the administration wanted to extend the school day an hour (and thus cutting into...
Dates:
April 17, 1974
Klau, Judge Joseph, April 17, 1974
File — Flat_file_folder 4
Scope and Contents
Judge Joseph Klau reflects on his childhood growing up in Hartford, the fact that twins run in his family (his mother, his sisters, his daughters, grandchildren), involvement in a protest while at Hartford High when the administration wanted to extend the school day an hour (and thus cutting into the time students could work after school), debating club, going to Harvard for college and law school, meeting/marrying his wife Sadie and starting their family, early career as a lawyer, politics...
Dates:
April 17, 1974
Kleinman, Harry, Oral History Transcripts, 1973 - 1977
File — Flat_file_folder 4
Interview 1977
Interview 1973
Subjects covered in interview include: Family coming to America, education, learning about Judaism Lawyer, Practicing Judaism, Jewish Community, Zionism Jewish Organizations, Politics, Hartford Community, wife, children Judge, about family, personal philosophies
Interview 1973
Subjects of interview include: Growing up in Hartford, Family Life, zionism, creation of Israel, Jewish education, Jewish community.
Dates:
1973 - 1977
Kleinman, Harry_1973, Oral History, May 20, 1973
Item — Box OHC-3, Box: 6, Box: 1
Identifier: 62b
Scope and Contents
Subjects of interview include: Growing up in Hartford, Family Life, zionism, creation of Israel, Jewish education, Jewish community.
Dates:
May 20, 1973
Kopmar, January 18, 1979
File — Flat_file_folder 4
Newspaper clippings
Exhibit information "A Look Back - Albany Avenue in the 1920's" held at United Synagogue of Greater Hartford. The display included the Ark saved from the old Garden Street Synagogue - the Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol. The opening states Irving Kopmar of Hartford to perform Yiddish selections. One of the clipping describes the east end of Hartford - where Constitution Plaza now stands as populated by Jews who later moved and relocated towards the northwest. Anartivl dated 1979 describes Cantor...
Dates:
January 18, 1979