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Milstein, Shul Baer, d. 1915

 Person

Biography

Milstein, who immigrated from Russia, was an early leader in Denver's westside Orthodox Jewish community, and previously a patriarch of the Cotopaxi Colony, an agricultural community established in 1882 that failed in 1884. Ran a kosher meat market. Later owned cattle, a stock yard and packing plant.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Drawing of Shul Baer Milstein, 1959 November

 File
Identifier: B371.01.0003.00002
Abstract Drawing of a rabbi sitting at a table smoking a pipe and turning the pages of a book. Drawing is mosly black and grey with some yellow and red in the background. Some Hebrew text and Judaic symbols in background. Framed pastel drawing done by Jean-Jacque "Jaq" Mesterton Radinsky of Rabbi S. B. Milstein, the artist's grandfather. Written at the bottom of the page "Color as I remember of the hanging in his study, S. B. Milstein, my grandfather. Done from a 3 1/2 x 5 inch Black and White photo....
Dates: 1959 November

Establishing Jewish Life, Panel 2, 2001

 Item — Object B297.02.01.00031: Series B297.02 [Barcode: U186023282582]
Identifier: B297.02.01.00031
Abstract

One of 12 exhibit display panels from the exhibit "Blazing the Trail: Denver's Jewish Pioneers." Panel titled "Establishing Jewish Life" and includes Congregation Zera Abraham, Talmud Torah, Shul Baer Milstein, Oheb Zadek Congregation, Tenth Street Shul, and Rabbis Manuel Laderman and Elias Hillkowitz.

Dates: 2001

From Cotopaxi to Denver: Immigrant Jewish Farmers Become American Urban Community Leaders, 2010

 Item
Identifier: B230.03.0023.00009
Abstract

History of the ill-fated Cotopaxi Colony of Jewish immigrants in Colorado. Brief biographies of the families involved and their contribution to Denver and Colorado after they left the colony.

Dates: 2010