Goldberg, Miriam Harris, 1916-2017
Person
Biography
Miriam Harris Goldberg (1916-2017) was born May 18, 1916, in Chicago to Harry and Minnie Harris. Harry Harris was the postmaster in Cripple Creek, Colorado in the 1890s. The couple later moved to Denver where Harry Harris operated a coal company. Miriam graduated from East High school in Denver. On Feb. 12, 1936, Miriam Harris married Max Goldberg in Denver at the BMH Synagouge. Max Goldberg purchased the Intermountain Jewish News in 1943. He also wrote a weekly column, "Side Street," for The Denver Post in the 1950s and 1960s. Max Goldberg died in 1972 and Miriam Goldberg succeeded her late husband at the helm of the IJN. Miriam Goldberg died Sunday, January 8th in 2017 in Denver at the age of 100 and is interred in Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Oral History Interview with Miriam Goldberg, 1982 July 15
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0004.00096
Abstract
"Miriam Goldberg (née Harris) details the history of her family, beginning with her maternal great-grandparents, Louis and Bertha (née Joseph) Cohn, German immigrants in the late 1840s. Specifics of her grandmother's family, and mother and father's family, are also included, as well as a discussion of her four children. She recounts growing up in Denver, Colo. in a Jewish family, and comments on the division between Denver's East Side and West Side Jewish communities. She talks about Temple...
Dates:
1982 July 15