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Ben Glass with H. Leivick, Yiddish Poet, 1933
Item
Identifier: B063.05.0005.00005
Abstract
Portrait of Ben Glass (at left) and H. Leivick (the pen name of Leyṿiḳ Halpern or Leivick Halper), Yiddish poet. Both men were patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Ben Glass was a printer at the JCRS bindery from 1928 to 1978 when it closed. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish working men along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West...
Dates:
1933
Bennett M. Wayne, 1935-1986
File
Identifier: B111.10.0010.0001
Scope and Contents
Folder contains hand-written story from 1935 written for a job which he did not get because he was Jewish. Tom Noel suggested he donate a copy.
Dates:
1935-1986
David Rafflelock, 1926-1977
File
Identifier: B111.08.0008.0007
Abstract
Editor of The Echo Publishing Company, which published "The Echo: Colorado's Magazine of Comment and Art" and founder of the Natinal Writers Club which gave help and advice to unknown writers, Rafflelock also founded one of the first writers' colonies in the U.S. He was inducted into the Literary Hall of Fame.
Dates:
1926-1977
Max P. Cowan, 1978
File
Identifier: B111.02.0002.0018
Abstract
Max P. Cowan (1907-1978) was born in in Poland and brought to Denver by his parents when he was one year old. Cowan attended the University of Denver and the Colorado School of Mines. After moving to Salt Lake City, Utah, Cowan married Sara Lee Guss in 1931. Cowan was a cattleman, and a charter member of the National Cattleman Association. He was a prominent member of the Rocky Mountain Jewish community, and served on a number of organizations, including the United Jewish Council. Cowan was...
Dates:
1978
Samuel J. Kline , 1924
File
Identifier: B111.06.0006.0005
Abstract
Born in Kansas in 1859, Kline journeyed to Denver with his family in 1862 behind a mule team. In his memoir he recalls the Cherry Creek flood of 1864, Lincoln's assassination, and living on the outskirts of Denver.
Dates:
1924
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