Music-Choir/Chorus/Singing

Scope and Contents This interview discusses Jack Kalmis' life growing up in Ukraine until the Russian Revolution, which led him to leave with his sister to Poland and later to America where they had some family. Kalmis started in the delicatessen business in New York, where he also met his wife Fannie. They moved to Hartford around 1944/45 when Kalmis became part owner of Platt's Delicatessen on Albany Ave.. After retirement, Kalmis wrote poetry on a variety of topics, ranging from violence in Israel and the...

Scope and Contents This interview discusses Jack Kalmis' life growing up in Ukraine until the Russian Revolution, which led him to leave with his sister to Poland and later to America where they had some family. Kalmis started in the delicatessen business in New York, where he also met his wife Fannie. They moved to Hartford around 1944/45 when Kalmis became part owner of Platt's Delicatessen on Albany Ave.. After retirement, Kalmis wrote poetry on a variety of topics, ranging from violence in Israel and the...

Scope and Contents This file contains two seperate oral history interviews, both conducted on the same day. One is with Abraham Katz, the other is with his wife Ida.Topics covered in Abraham Katz's interview: Growing up (Orthodox) Jewish in Hartford, regular and Jewish education, keeping kosher, time at Hartford Public High, going to Yale when very few Jews could (some undergrad, special degree to Law school), helped getting Jews into the YMCA, changing Hartford after war/people moving out,...

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This biographical sketch covers a variety of topics including immigration from feudal Russia, farming and peddling in Hartford area, as well as information about Agudas Achim and Greenberg's time as a cantor there.

Abstract GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONTape No.: 77 No. of Tapes: Name of Interviewee: Ida Katz (Mrs. Abraham) Date of Interview: August 16, 1974 Occupation: Homemaker Date of Birth: circa 1894 Place of Birth: Hartford, CT Transcript (yes/no): yes No. of Pages: 15Abstract: Mrs. Katz lived first on Morgan Street and then on Pleasant Street and her neighbors and friends were the Dr. Winick family and Abe and Bessie Bordon. She went...

Interview Subjects of interview include: Musical influences, mother, wife, children, Cantors and their later careers, choirs, records, festivals, radio, cantorate of Greater Hartford and rise to prominence in early 1950s, rabbinate of Greater Hartford. Scope and Contents Materials include flyers advertising JHS meeting 6/13/1973; Newspaper clippings of eulogies; Copy of newspaper clipping about honoring UofH veterans; Mylar folder of mixed materials...

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Subjects of interview include: early life in Hartford; father's carpentry business; immigration of parents from Russia; ethnic makeup of Hartford's North End prior to it becoming a predominantly Jewish area; Influx of Jews into north end; work as salesman and Hartford Board of Ed member; local politics; soliciting help from the WPA; acting as Director of Plant Operations for board of ed; wife's teaching career.