Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1946 - 2013
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Kiesler and Rifkin Families Papers
Collection
Identifier: B190
Abstract
East European Jewish immigrant, Adolph Kiesler, became a noted Colorado philanthropist. Born in Rumania in 1880, Kiesler settled in Denver's West Colfax Jewish neighborhood at the turn of the century, when he began as a peddler. He later recalled "I worked for fifteen cents a day at odd jobs, and then I got a job carring coal for seventy-five cents a ton." Like so many immigrants, he scrimped and saved and after fifteen years and a variety of jobs, he had saved enough money to launch the...
Dates:
1930-1990