Businesses -- Fishmarket
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Subject Source: Local sources
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Handler, Morris [Maurice]_1990, Oral History
Digital Record
Identifier: handler, morris [maurice]_1990
Handler, Morris [Maurice]_1990, Oral History, March 14, 1990
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Scope and Contents
Interview covers prohibition/prostitution in Jewish Hartford, discussion of various businesses including I. Finklestein's (Cheap John) clothing store, and a walking tour with reflections of what used to be in the area/his childhood.
Dates:
March 14, 1990
Lassow, Louis and Fannie (Karp), undated
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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
Lazowski, Rabbi Philip, undated
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Scope and Contents
Folder contains: Oral history transcript relating details of Lazowski's escape from the Holocaust; news clippings from the Hartford Jewish Ledger relating work of Lazowski; typed piography of Lazowski's membershps and occupations with news clipping attached; photocopies of news clippings; flyer announcing April 13 1977 meeting of Jewish Historical Society, with nes clipping attached. Interview subjects Interview subjects include: Lazowski's...
Dates:
undated