Family Life in Hartford

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

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford records / Series 20: Historical Highlights - Meetings and Programs (other than annual meetings), 1970s-1980s

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

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford People files / Files: Man - P

oral history transcript, 2004

Item — Folder Zachs Family

Scope and Contents

Subjects of interview include: early life in Hartford; father's shoe business; Jewish education; fundraising for Jewish Federation; Trinity Hillel house

Dates: 2004

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford People files / Files: T - Z / Zachs Family / Zachs, Henry and Louise

Rome, John J.

Digital Record

Identifier: rome, john j_1975

Dates: undated

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford

Rome, John J., undated

File — Flat_file_folder 6

Scope and Contents

Subjects of interview include: operations of the Honis Oyster House; arrival of parents in Hartford during the 1888 blizzard; early life and education in Hartford; family life and community in Hartford; father's founding of a small shul on Market Street; doing the accounting for the Hobis Oyster house.

Dates: undated