Depression Era
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:
Meetings and Programs/1976 May 12/Sadie Klau interview
Digital Record
Identifier: sadie klau interview
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
Towns/Colchester/Oral History/Himmelstein, Rachel, 1986, 1986-1986
File — Box
Scope and Contents
This oral history details Rachel Himmelstein's experience growing up on a farm in Lebanon, CT, as well as teaching in a one room schoolhouse in that town and in Colchester.
This file also contains a color photograph labled "Opening night Colchester play, Marsha (Lotstein), Susan (Wasserman), and Chris (Bailey), "Mrs. Meil and the Chicken Hawk."
Dates:
1986-1986
Towns/Eastern Connecticut/Research Papers/Gordon, Morton L. The History of the Jewish farmer in Eastern Connecticut. Yeshiva University, 1975. Includes Ellington, Rockville, Willimantic, Colombia, Chestnut Hill, Hebron, Lebanon, Amston, Colchester, Moodus, chesterfield, Woodstock, Putnam, Pomfret, Abington, Killingly, Danielson, Brooklyn, Moosup, Plainfield, Jewett City, Norwich, New London, Madison, Guildford, New Haven, and Hartford. 2 copies., 1975-1975
File — Box 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Most of the material in this collection was generated as a result of a survey of Jewish farms in Connecticut jointly undertaken in 1995-1998 by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford and the Connecticut Historical Commission. Other material related to Jewish farms in Connecticut has been added since that time. The collection includes photographs of individual farms, farmers, and farm buildings, oral histories, and newspaper articles regarding local farm families and businesses....
Dates:
1975-1975