Fraternal Organizations/Masons/Knights of Pythias

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Subjects covered during interview include: Family history in Lituania, Work, Marriage (Ethel), theater (some topics not found in incomplete transcript).

Family history in Hartford/Mass area, Sophie Tucker, his time as an entertainer at various society functions in CT and up and down te eastern seaboard.

Katz family all related-at times unclear how. See Katz Family Tree for more information.

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Subjects covered during interview include: Continuation, about entertainment side career as well as some of his other jobs, Katz Family, Involvement in Organizations/Jewish Community.

Explains some of the material found in the Louis Y. Katz people file.

Scope and Contents Topics included in this interview: Family history/death of his father/location of various relatives, growing up as a Jewish boy in Romania, immigration to Hartford to join brother Jack Kaufman, learning English and education in Hartford, working as a child, path towards career in pharmacies/drug stores including education and following in his brothers' (Jack and Irving) footsteps, membership at The Emanuel and religious life, active in Masonic Lodge Number 88 (Fifty-Fifty club-half Jewish,...

Scope and Contents Topics included in this interview: Family history/death of his father/location of various relatives, growing up as a Jewish boy in Romania, immigration to Hartford to join brother Jack Kaufman, learning English and education in Hartford, working as a child, path towards career in pharmacies/drug stores including education and following in his brothers' (Jack and Irving) footsteps, membership at The Emanuel and religious life, active in Masonic Lodge Number 88 (Fifty-Fifty club-half Jewish,...

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File contains information on the life and war service of Stanley Kaufman (son of George and Ida Kaufman), who was in the signal corps in the Pacific Campaign in World War II. He served as a radio and radar repair technician during the saipan and Iwo Jima campaigns.

Color photocopied photograph of Stanley Kaufman, n.d. (ca. 1942-46).

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Contents of folder include: correspondence regarding induction into Jewish Athlete hall of Fame; flyers advertising induction; 3 drafts of induction speech; handwriten notes; photocopies of handwritten notes; data sheet; typed data sheets; news clippings.

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Folder contains: certificates related to Felix Lyons' service as 3rd sergeant in the Putnam Phalanx; certificates related to Minnie Stern's graduation from Formal School and to service as a teacher; certificate of participation in Free Masons.