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Immigration

 Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 457 Collections and/or Records:

Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies/Lecture Series/1996, 1997, 1998, 1996-1998

 File — Box 1
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents From the Box:

This box contains various information about the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies.

Dates: 1996-1998

Mayer, Nathan, undated

 File — Flat_file_folder 5
Scope and Contents Folder contains: Small envelope containing newspaper clippings detailing Mayer's work to save life of girl with Diptheria; photocopies of clippings; photocopy of book page "Four to Remember" (See copy in Annie Fisher/Abe Goldstein); photocopy of newspaper article "the history of the Jews in Hartford"; Short biography of Nathan Mayer; Invitation to research study presentation at JHSGH; 2 copies of Mayer's poetry; 2 copies of mayer's Address to Ararat Lodge; 3 photocopies of newspaper article...
Dates: undated

Meetings and Programs/1976 May 12/Sadie Klau interview

 Digital Record
Identifier: sadie klau interview
Dates: May 12, 1976

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

Meetings and Programs/1977 January 12/Judge Harry H. Kleinman interview, January 12, 1977

 File — Box
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: January 12, 1977

Meetings and Programs/1979 April 4/Holocaust Commemoration/Peter Korduner interview, 1979

 File — Box
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains the records, correspondence, newsletters, photographs, and other materials which document the functions and activities of the Jewish Historical Society. The bulk of the collection covers the 1990s to the present. Much of the collection relates JHSGH's programs, exhibits, tours, and other projects.

Dates: 1979

Meetings and Programs/1985 April 25/An Interview with Simon Konover, April 25, 1985

 File — Box
Scope and Contents Topics covered in this interview include: Growing up in Poland, his father’s occupation driving buses before the war, escaping a labor camp to Lumza, Russia where he joined the army driving trucks, experience during the war, being sent to Siberia, experience after the end of the war returning to Poland, immigration to America via Cuba to join brother David, last name change, information about his surviving brothers David and Harold, working in New York, moving to Hartford and working at...
Dates: April 25, 1985

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

Mileikowski, Alice Marder, undated

 File — Flat_file_folder 5
Scope and Contents

Subjects of interview include: Growing up in Hartford; growing up in Israel; moving to Israel and back to the US; early education; father's work as a vending-machine maker; sending money to family in Israel; Service as medical nurse in American military; service in Israeli military. Israeli military services outlined in introduction but transcript ends before subjects can be detailed.

Dates: undated

National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Hartford section records

 File
Identifier: M 15
Scope and Contents Note

The National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Hartford section records (8.5 c.f.; 1910-2012) consists of official publications, correspondence, flyers, newspaper clippings and other material. Of particular interest are a long run of minutes and a sampling of newsletters through many decades that provide a continuous narrative of the group for much of its history.

Dates: 1910 - 2012