Pogroms
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:
Hurwitz, Joseph, 1955 - 2008
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
The 2004 interview focuses on Hurwitz's time in the Korean War as well as his involvement in the Hartford Jewish community and the Federation. The additional materials in the file speak to these topics and well.The topics covered in the 2006 interview include: Family history/his children. His childhood growing up Jewish in Hartford. His grandfather Rabbi Isaac Hurwitz (Hurewitz). his Bar Mitzvah at the Emanuel in Hartford. Zionism in Connecticut. Emanuel renting out space in...
Dates:
1955 - 2008
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: M 5
Kalmis, Jack, undated
File — Folder 3
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...
Dates:
undated
Kalmis, Jack_1987,Oral History, July 18, 1987
Item — Box 23, Box: 409
Identifier: 409
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...
Dates:
July 18, 1987
Kantrowitz, Gussie, October 1968
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
Gussie Kantrowitz reflects on her connection to Sophie Tucker. Her father went to heder with Sophie Tucker's mother back in Aslev, Russia, and they met the Abuza family (Tucker's family) in Hartford through Anna, Tucker's sister.
Gussie came to Hartford when she married her husband Samuel Kantrowitz in 1912, immigrated to America from Russia with her family at the age of 10.
Dates:
October 1968
Kantrowitz, Gussie_1968, Oral History, October, 1968
Item — Box OHC-1, Box: 3, Box: 1
Identifier: 5
Abstract
GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONTape No.: 5
No. of Tapes:
Name of Interviewee: Gussie Kantrowitz (Mrs. Samuel)
Date of Interview: October, 1968
Occupation: Homemaker
Date of Birth: Circa 1895
Place of Birth: Russia
Transcript (yes/no): yes
No. of Pages: 13Abstract:
Mrs. Kantrowitz came to America at the age of 10 and with her parents settled on a farm in Willimantic, CT. She married at age 17 and moved to Hartford where her...
Dates:
October, 1968