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Allied Jewish Community Council of Denver

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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

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