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Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt 50th Wedding Anniversary, circa 1948
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Identifier: B315.01.00003
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Isadore (Shea) and Yetta Prezant Levitt are standing inside the Congregation Zera Abraham synagogue in a full-length portrait. Yetta Levitt is wearing a dress with a corsage and Isadore Levitt is wearing a suit and hat with a boutonnière. They came from Russia in the early 1900s and settled in the Eastern European Jewish neighborhood around West Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado. The Zera Abraham synagogue, at 1560 Julian street, was founded in 1887 by former colonists in Cotopaxi,...
Dates:
circa 1948
Oral History Interview with Louis Siegel, 1979 March 13
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Identifier: B098.01.0003.00063
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Talks about life on Denver's west side, fathers experience with the carrier’s union, pulling a wagon of fruit or ice, doing other manual labor jobs.
Dates:
1979 March 13
Oral History Interview with Rose Stuhlbarg, 1978 August 6
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Identifier: B098.01.0002.00039
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Rose Stuhlbarg details Jewish life on the West Side of Denver, Colo. She also talks about her parents who emigrated from Russia. Her father practiced folk-medicine and her mother was a midwife. She mentions the Yiddish theater in Denver. She discusses her life after her first husband died, and the Depression years in Denver. Her first husband was murdered while on the Denver Police Force in 1919.
Dates:
1978 August 6
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