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Congregation Shearith Israel (Denver, Colo.)

 Organization

Biography

Congregation Shearith Israel was organized in 1887 and met for services at 14th and Blake, Denver, Colorado. In 1903, Shearith Israel moved to 10th and Lawrence into a building built in 1876 and consecrated as Emmanuel Episcopalian Chapel in September 1877. Shearith Israel was informally known as the Tenth Street Shul. Congregation Shearith Israel disbanded in 1958. __ __ __Shearith Israel (Jeanne E. Abrams, Images of America: Jewish Denver, 1859-1940 (Charleston: Arcadia, 2007), 69.) Phil Goodstein, Exploring Jewish Colorado (Denver: Rocky Mountain Jewish historical Society, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver, 1992), 15-16. Emmanuel Gallery. ''History of the Gallery.'' Last modified August 26, 2009. http://www.emmanuelgallery.org/history.htm. Emmanual Shearith Israel Chapel (History Colorado. ''Denver City & County (D-E).'' http://www.historycolorado.org/oahp/denver-city-county-d-e.) Emmanual Shearith Israel Chapel (National Register of Historic Places. ''Colorado - Denver County.'' http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/co/Denver/state3.html.) Jeanne E. Abrams, Historic Jewish Denver (Denver: Rocky Mountain Jewish historical Society, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver, 1982), 8.

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

Art, 1979

 File
Identifier: B173.03.0003.0002
Abstract

Newspaper Articles on Irene Stein's art and invitation to the art show held at Emanuel Gallery (formerly Shearith Israel), and copies of drawing of Shearith Israel Temple by Irene Stein.

Dates: 1979

Box 1, 1900-1930

 File — Box B139.01.0001: Series B139.01; Series B139.02 [Barcode: U186020736388]
Identifier: B139.01.0001
Abstract

6 material culture objects--3 tefillin for the hand, 1 by-law, 1 framed drawing of Congregration Shearith Israel, 1 bound ledger of cash records

Dates: 1900-1930

Box 1, 1950-1970

 File — Box B139.01.0001: Series B139.01; Series B139.02 [Barcode: U186020736388]
Identifier: B139.02.0001
Abstract

3 file folders, photographs, certificates, newsclippings, 1 slide film, 1 negative of slide film

Dates: 1950-1970

Box 2, 1940-1970

 File — Box B139.01.0002: Series B139.01 [Barcode: U186020736396]
Identifier: B139.01.0002
Abstract

3 pairs of tefillin used in synagogue; torah cover used in synagogue

Dates: 1940-1970

Congregation Shearith Israel (Tenth Street Shul) Records

 Collection
Identifier: B139
Abstract Congregation Shearith Israel (Remnant of Israel), or the Tenth Street Shul as it was also known, was founded in 1899 as a Jewish orthodox synagogue. The young congregation bought a small stone church in Denver at the Tenth Street site in 1903 and remodeled the building to suit its needs as a synagogue. The last of the operating synagogues in the "Old Colfax" area of Denver, Shearith Israel closed its doors in 1958, having been largely used by Jewish businessmen working in the...
Dates: 1900-1979

Container 4: Congregation Shearith Israel (10th Street Shul) Memorial Poster, 1900

 File — Drawer B139.02.0004: Series B139.02 [Barcode: U186023281120]
Identifier: B139.02.0004
Abstract

A Poster with all the men from the (Chevera Kidishas) Burial Society names written in Hebrew.

Dates: 1900

Establishing Jewish Life, Panel 2, 2001

 Item — Object B297.02.01.00031: Series B297.02 [Barcode: U186023282582]
Identifier: B297.02.01.00031
Abstract

One of 12 exhibit display panels from the exhibit "Blazing the Trail: Denver's Jewish Pioneers." Panel titled "Establishing Jewish Life" and includes Congregation Zera Abraham, Talmud Torah, Shul Baer Milstein, Oheb Zadek Congregation, Tenth Street Shul, and Rabbis Manuel Laderman and Elias Hillkowitz.

Dates: 2001

Exterior of Congregation Shearith Israel, circa 1959

 Item
Identifier: B063.06.0014.00006
Abstract Exterior of Congregation Shearith Israel. The building is located at 10th and Lawrence Streets on the Auraria Campus in downtown Denver, Colorado. Since the 1970s it has been used as an art gallery by the Auraria Higher Education Center. The building served as the synagogue for the Jewish orthodox congregation Shearith Israel from 1903 to 1958. This building, part of the Auraria Higher Education Center in downtown Denver since 1973, is the oldest surviving religious structure in Denver. It...
Dates: circa 1959

Exterior of Congregation Shearith Israel, circa 1959

 Item
Identifier: B063.06.0006.00005
Abstract Exterior of Congregation Shearith Israel. The building is located at 10th and Lawrence Streets on the Auraria Campus in downtown Denver, Colorado. Since the 1970s it has been used as an art gallery by the Auraria Higher Education Center. The building served as the synagogue for the Jewish orthodox congregation Shearith Israel from 1903 to 1958. This building, part of the Auraria Higher Education Center in downtown Denver since 1973, is the oldest surviving religious structure in Denver. It...
Dates: circa 1959

Exterior of Congregation Shearith Israel, circa 1959

 Item
Identifier: B063.06.0006.00006
Abstract Exterior of Congregation Shearith Israel. The building is located at 10th and Lawrence Streets on the Auraria Campus in downtown Denver, Colorado. Since the 1970s it has been used as an art gallery by the Auraria Higher Education Center. The building served as the synagogue for the Jewish orthodox congregation Shearith Israel from 1903 to 1958. This building, part of the Auraria Higher Education Center in downtown Denver since 1973, is the oldest surviving religious structure in Denver. It...
Dates: circa 1959

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Denver (Colo.) 46
Exhibitions 30
Photographs 18
Art 14
Synagogues 14