Great Depression

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Subjects covered during interview include: Family history, Orthodox, Growing up Jewish in Hartford, jewish neighborhood Family, politics, jewish community members, Great Depression, Board of Education North End, synagogues, school buildings, wife

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...

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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

*UConn Ethnic Heritage Project

Subjects covered in interview include: (M) Growing up Jewish in Russia, War, Coming to Hartford (M) Education, Work, Marriage (H) Work, Great Depression, Jewish Community (M) Judaism, Politics, Jewish Organizations

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This oral history details Rachel Himmelstein's experience growing up on a farm in Lebanon, CT, as well as teaching in a one room schoolhouse in that town and in Colchester.

This file also contains a color photograph labled "Opening night Colchester play, Marsha (Lotstein), Susan (Wasserman), and Chris (Bailey), "Mrs. Meil and the Chicken Hawk."