Barnard-Brown Schools

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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...

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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.

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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.