Wagner, Stanley M.

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Brief biographies of Jewish pioneers and histories of Jewish influence in Colorado. Contains historical photographs and interviews with descendents of Jewish pioneers.

Abstract Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol Congregation (BMH-the Great House of Study) was establsihed in 1892 in a group of rented rooms above co-founder Henry Plonsky's shoe and boot store on Larimer Street in Denver, Colorado. It officially incorporated in 1897 and grew to become Denver's largest modern Orthodox Jewish congregation. The congregation was first housed at 24th and Curtis Streets and then erected a new building at 16th and Gaylord. In 1969 BMH moved to its present location at 560 S. Monaco...

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Contains correspondence of Raphael Jospe, Belle Marcus, Stanley Wagner, and Uri Neil of the Center for Judaic Studies from 1975-1985. Also, introductory speech by Miriam Gottesfeld at Center for Judaic Studies' Bar Mitzvah in 1988.

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The Center was founded by Rabbi C. E. Kauvar and Rabbi Stanley Wagner at the University of Denver. Collection contains correspondence and administrative records from the Center of Judaic Studies from 1975-1988.

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The Martin M. Weitz Papers contain material related to the Congress on Science and Ethics held at the University of Denver in 1977. Included are biographical material on the participants and papers presented at the Congress.

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The Martin M. Weitz Papers contain material related to the Congress on Science and Ethics held at the University of Denver in 1977. Included are biographical material on the participants and papers presented at the Congress.

Abstract Some of the Jewish congregations in Denver were members of the Denver Rabbinical Council. In 1978, a Rabbinic Conversion Board was established consisting of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Rabbis. The communal conversion board stressed education and the sincerity of the conversion applicant. The Rabbinical Council of America strongly opposed the inclusion of Conservative and Reform rabbis and by 1984, the Denver Conversion Program was dissolved. The file contains proposals,...

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Left to right Rabbi Stanley Wagner, Mrs. Renee Rabinowitz, and two unidentified men at the head table at the Elie Wiesel Tribute Dinner hosted by the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver.

Abstract Stanley M. Wagner was born in 1932 in Brooklyn, New York and received his rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University. He was the spiritual leader of BMH-BJ from 1972-1997. He received 6 post graduate degrees, founded the University of Denver's Center for Judaic Studies in 1975, and co-founded the Mizel Museum of Judaica in 1982. From 1970-1972, he was the executive vice-president of the Religious Zionists of America - Mizrachi. He was director of the Center for Judaic Studies from 1975...