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Windsor Street, Hartford, CT

 Subject

Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

Lassow, Louis and Fannie (Karp)

 Digital Record
Identifier: lassow, louis and fannie (karp)

Lassow, Louis and Fannie (Karp), undated

 File — Flat_file_folder 4
Transcript subjects Subjects of transcript include: Jewish family life in Hartford in the early 1900s; crowded conditions of living; street markets; children selling newspapers; immigration; work in a department store; Windsor Street as an integrated neighborhood, the "Pot of Gold"; Fish selling and living above a fish market; Rose's father's struggle to make ends meet as a mender and tinker; various building fires close to Rose's home; children playing in the snow; hasty marriage; a wedding; generosity of a...
Dates: undated

Marder, Abraham (see also Plen), undated

 File — Flat_file_folder 5
Scope and Contents Folder 1 contains: black and white photocopy of group photograph "Marder family emigrating to Palsetione, Oct. 21, 1933, Vulcania 1933 -- Mrs. Lilian (Eisenberg) Marder and Alice Marder (Mileikowsky) and Sarah Marder (Plen) went to settle in Palestine (Sitting -- bottom row)"; Correspondence from Jewish Historical Society thanking her for donations; Sarah Plen's translation of marriage confirmation; news clippings; handwritten minutes of Zionist meeting; paper in Hebrew; certificate of award...
Dates: undated

Meetings and Programs/1976 May 12/Sadie Klau interview

 Digital Record
Identifier: sadie klau interview
Dates: May 12, 1976

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

Meister, Meyer, undated

 File — Flat_file_folder 5
Scope and Contents

Subjects of interview include: immigration from Kovnia Gabernia; family life in hartford; working for uncle's tailoring business; loss of the old places of Hartford; areas of Jewish life; various congregations; Jewish education; Labor organization; Charity; decline of Workmen's Circle; Abature Farband.



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

Spodick, Esther (Mrs. Frank), 1973

 File — Flat_file_folder 7
Scope and Content Note From the File:

Vertical reference files for individuals.

Dates: 1973

Tager, Max, 1976-2002

 File — Flat_file_folder 8
Scope and Contents

Folder 2 contains:Photocopy of "Four To Remember" biography compilation; currency from the Theresienstadt/Terezin Ghetto printed in 1943; program for Victor Chenkin's performance at the Bushnell 3/16/1930; memo to Tager from Hartford Jewish Federation; news clipping imploring Tager's radio program to come back; postcard with a picture of Akatui prison; clipping of Hartford Courant title line

Dates: 1976-2002