Baskin, Bernard

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Members of the Baskin family sit around May and Samuel Baskin as they celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary. Kneeling at left is Tobias Baskin; seated left to right Leonard Baskin, Pearl Rabinowitz, May Baskin, Samuel Baskin, Susan Baskin, and Bernard Baskin; and standing left to right Lisa Baskin holding baby Hosea, Judett Baskin, Marjorie Baskin, David Baskin, Joe Rabinowitz, and Norman Rabinowitz.

Abstract Rabbi Samuel Baskin served in pulpits in Denver, Salt Lake City, and Brooklyn. His son, Rabbi Bernard Baskin, temporarily replaced Rabbi Herbert Friedman at Temple Emanuel when the latter became a wartime chaplain from 1944 to 1947. He retired after 40 years at a liberal synagogue in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Bernard's wife was Marjorie Schatz, known and admired for her expertise in metallurgy, health care, social service, and Jewish community affairs. Elfrieda Erlich was Marjorie Shatz's...

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Box contains administrative and personal files for rabbis including high holy days, board appointments and resignations, by-laws, member resignations, rabbi and assistant rabbi files, and a 1946 petition from the congregation regarding conservativism and political Zionism.

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Rabbi Baskin was born in New Jersey, not sure why the family came to Denver but thinks his father may have had some tuberculosis. Interview split between talking about his father Rabbi Sam Baskin and his own life.

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Studio portrait of Rabbi Bernard Baskin seated in chair wearing a suit and tie.

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Studio portrait of a young Rabbi Bernard Baskin wearing a suit and tie.