Korngold, Shana

Abstract Future Israeli prime minister Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch Meyerson) resided in Denver from 1913 to 1914 as a high school student. After an argument with her parents, she ran away from Milwaukee to join her sister Shayna Mabovitch Korngold and her husband Sam in Denver. Shayna was one of the many east European Jews who flocked to Colorado to "chase the cure" for tuberculosis. Shana was a patient at both the National Jewish Hospital (NJH) and later at the Jewish Consumptives'...

Abstract Golda Mabovitz Meir lived with her sister Shayna, brother-in-law Sam Kornfeld, and niece Judith Korngold Bauman in 1913-1914. The Korngolds lived in a brick duplex at 1606-08 Julian Street. In 1987, the home was in danger of being demolished in 1987, but was restored and moved to Auraria campus in 1988. The file contains articles, a proposal for redevelopment of the home from the City and County of Denver, newspaper articles, notes, correspondence, a budget, and a scrap of paper found in the...