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Allied Jewish Community Council of Denver

 Organization

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Allied Jewish Community Council of Denver Records

 Collection
Identifier: B102
Abstract

The Allied Jewish Community Council of Denver was established in 1949 with goals to unite the Jewish community of Denver and work to coordinate charitable activities and the advancement of the Jewish community in Denver. Collection contains administrative papers, surveys, pamphlets and brochures relating to the Allied Jewish Community Council of Denver.

Dates: Other: 1950-1980

Box 1, 1950-1980

 File — Box B102.01.0001: Series B102.01 [Barcode: U186020743026]
Identifier: B102.01.0001
Abstract

(3) file folders include: Administrative papers; Allied Recreation Survey (1955); A Study of Denver Jewish Youth (1971). Assorted pamphlets and brochures c. 1960.

Dates: 1950-1980

Certificates and memorial book, Elizabeth Bronfin, 1946 - 1963

 File
Identifier: B174.02.0002.0004
Abstract

File Folder four: certificate of citizenship, service certificate from the Denver United Service Organization men's center, service award from the Allied Jewish Community Council of Denver, and memorial book from Elizabeth Bronfin's service.

Dates: 1946 - 1963

Fund raising Affair of Allied Jewish Campaign, 1948

 Item
Identifier: B063.04.0004.00102
Abstract

Fund raising dinner for the Allied Jewish campaign. Seated at the head table left to right are an unidentified woman, Tillye Levy, Alyce Lemle, Ida Mintz Cohen, Fanny Grimes, and Rabbi Herbert Friedman.

Dates: 1948

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

Mary Jacobs Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B200
Abstract

Mary Jacobs (1902-1994) grew up in Denver and was involved extensively with social service organizations in Denver including the National Council of Jewish Women, which she was President of Council 1954-55, Jewish Family and Children's Services and the Allied Jewish Community Council. The Mary Jacobs Papers contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, programs, by-laws, speeches, notes, board meeting agenda, newsletters and notebooks related to Mary Jacobs from 1950 through 1988.

Dates: 1950-1986

Rabbi Herbert Friedman, 1946

 File
Identifier: B111.03.0003.0023
Abstract In 1946, Rabbi Herbert Friedman worked with the Allied Jewish Council and the United Jewish Appeal in a campaign to father relief funds for displaced Jews in central and eastern Europe. Friedman traveled to the region in July 1946, and found a mass exodus of Jews headed towards the U.S.-controlled portion of Germany to escape the horrible conditions in Poland. He used the stories of distress from his time in Poland in the Allied Jewish Council's campaign for relief funds. (See Lavender Hill...
Dates: 1946

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Denver (Colo.) 4
Charity organization 3
Jews -- Charities 2
Rabbis 2
Administration 1