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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

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Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

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

Staff Banquet, 1927

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Identifier: B063.03.0036.00055
Abstract

Several men in tuxedos sit around a u-shaped table at a JCRS staff banquet in honor of Dr. Isidore Bronfin. Dr. Philip Hillkowitz, Dr. Charles Spivak, and Dr. Isador Bronfin sit center. 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: 1927

World War I Portrait of Dr. Charles Spivak, between 1914-1925

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Identifier: B063.03.0036.00018
Abstract

Dr. Charles D. Spivak in his military uniform. Dr. Spivak took a leave of absence from the JCRS to serve as a special U.S. medical commissioner in war-torn Europe. He was officially a representative of the Jewish Distribution Committee to provide relief to Jewish refugees.

Dates: between 1914-1925