Wooster Street, Hartford, CT

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Subjects covered during interview include: Wooster Street, Brown School, Education, classmates, University of Vermont, medical degree work in hospital, first jobs, office, military commission, return to practice, medical cases, Mount Sinai, Jewish doctors, changes, welfare, private patients, retirement

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...