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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:

Group at the National Conference of Jewish Social Services, circa 1925

 Item
Identifier: B063.03.0035.00042
Abstract A group of people at the National Conference of Jewish Social Services. Dr. Hillkowitz (standing center), Dr. Bronfin (4th from left squatting), and Dr. Charles Spivak (squatting center) are pictured in the photograph. Dr. Spivak was a founder of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver,...
Dates: circa 1925

JCRS Doctor administers cancer treatment, after 1955

 Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0171.00012
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

Dates: after 1955

JCRS Doctor examines patient's eye using an Ophthalmoscope, after 1955

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Identifier: B002.04.0215.0171.00011
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

Dates: after 1955

Oral History Interview with Ben Blumberg, 1977 November 18

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Identifier: B098.05.0008.00003
Abstract

Topics covered: Family history, life in Denver, working for the Rocky Mountain News and starting the West End Press; B'nai B'rith and several other organizations: JCC, JCRS, Rose Medical Center, Allied Jewish Federation. Index in file B098.18.0022.0008.

Dates: 1977 November 18

Portrait of Dr. Charles Spivak, between 1915-1928

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Identifier: B063.03.0036.00032
Abstract

Dr. Charles Spivak. Dr. Spivak was a founder of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

Dates: between 1915-1928

Portrait of Dr. Charles Spivak, 1926 September 10

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Identifier: B063.03.0019.00084
Abstract Portrait of Denver physician Dr. Charles Spivak, who served as executive secretary of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) from 1904 until his death in 1929. Dr. Spivak, a Jewish immigrant who had fled Russia in 1881 because of his revolutionary socialist activities, received his medical degree from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1890. He and his family moved to Denver in 1896. Know as the ''guiding genius'' of the JCRS, he was referred to affectionately as ''Papa...
Dates: 1926 September 10

Portrait of Dr. Charles Spivak, 1926 September 10

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Identifier: B063.03.0003.00006
Abstract

Formal head and shoulders portrait of Denver physician Dr. Charles Spivak, who served as executive secretary of the Jewish Consumptives Relief Society from 1904 until his death in 1927.

Dates: 1926 September 10

Scrapbook Page from Edward Bronfin, between 1911-1940

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Identifier: B063.03.0036.00053
Abstract

Scrapbook page from Edward Bronfin containing six photographs relating to the family of Dr. Isidore Bronfin, superintendent at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and National Jewish Hospital. circa 1920-1940.

Dates: between 1911-1940

Scrapbook Page from Edward Bronfin, between 1911-1940

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Identifier: B063.03.0036.00054
Abstract

Scrapbook page from Edward Bonfin containing six photographs relating to the family of Dr. Isidore Bronfin, superintendent at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and National Jewish Hospital. circa 1920-1940.

Dates: between 1911-1940

Solomon Herbert Bassow, 1894-circa 1980

 File
Identifier: B111.01.0001.0021
Abstract

Born in Russia, Bassow emigrated to New York in 1906, eventually moving to Wyoming where his family briefly were homesteaders and he taught in a one-room schoolhouse. Later he graduated from the University of Colorado Medical School.

Dates: 1894-circa 1980