Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol (Denver, Colo.)
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Jennie Goldberg, 1982 March 10
Major subjects covered in the interview include family immigrating to Denver form Poland, fathers’ grocery business, growing up in a Jewish family, schooling, charity work and religious life. Also talks about Rabbi Kauvar.
Oral History Interview with Leah Silverberg Eisen, 1982 April 30
Major subjects cover the familiy's immigration to Denver, her parents and siblings, Jewish religious education
Oral History Interview with Peryle Hayutin Beck, 1989 February 5
Oral History Interview with Tillie Flaks, 1978 July 25
Portrait of Henry Plonsky, between 1920-1930
Henry Plonsky sits, wearing a suit and holding a document in his hand. Polish-born Plonsky arrived in Denver in 1877. He helped form an Orthodox minyan above his store on Larimer Street. He became a successful shoe and boot merchant in partnership with Leopold Mayer and was instrumental in the establishment of the Orthodox Jewish congregation Ahavey Emunah in 1880 and later the Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol Synagogue and the Beth Joseph congregation.
Portrait of Peryle Hayutin on Her Sixteenth Birthday, 1931 June 15
Peryle Hayutin (Beck) with her hair in long curls stands in front of a piano that has vases of flowers on it. This portrait was taken for her sixteenth birthday. She was also confirmed at Beth Ha-Medrosh Hagodol Synagogue (BMH) on that date. She wears a white dress with a sheer full length overdress.
Rabbi Charles E. H. Kauvar, 1954
Portrait of Rabbi Charles Kauvar sitting in front of a bookshelf and holding a book.
Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society's Historic Jewish Denver Tour, 1982 June 27
Several men and women sit in the BMH Chapel listening to a speaker during the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society's Historic Jewish Denver Tour. Dr. Jeanne Abrams' sons sit in the front row.
Stained Glass Window at Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol, circa 1978
Stained glass window in Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol viewed from inside the church. The window depicts a sword and book with the inscription ''Choose ye the Sword and it is a symbol of war and death a world of chaos. Choose ye the Book and life abundant and blessed will be yours.''
Stained Glass Window at Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol, circa 1978
Stained glass window in Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol viewed from inside the church. The window depicts two Stars of David and the Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol seal above an outdoor scene. At the bottom are the verses, ''And he shall be like a tree planted by streams of water Ps. 1.3.'' and ''And Man shall be as in a hiding-place from the wind and a covert from the Tempest As by the water courses in a dry place as in the shadow of a great rock in a wearing land Is 32.''