From Cotopaxi to Denver: Immigrant Jewish Farmers Become American Urban Community Leaders, 2010
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
Digital Repository
From Cotopaxi to Denver: Immigrant Jewish Farmers Become American Urban Community Leaders
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Extent
1 Items (videodisc)
Scope and Contents
Contains DVDs created by Dr. Jeanne Abrams: A Grocery Store on Every Corner: Early Colorado Jewish Grocers; And Justice You Shall Pursue: Early Colorado Jewish Lawyers; A Legacy of Caring: Early Colorado Jewish Women 1860-1930 (2 copies); From Peddlers to Merchant Princes: Early Colorado Jewish Entrepreneurs; Blazing the Trail: An Early History of Denver's Jewish Community; Growing Up in Early Denver: The Lives of Jewish Children 1860-1940; At Home on the Range: Colorado Jewish Cowboys, Cattlemen and Poultry Growers (2). Also, PBS Colorado Experience: Jewish Pioneers.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
DVD 32 minutes, 50 seconds color with black & white sequences
General
Title from title screen. ||This program was produced through the generous support of: Evi and Evan Makovsky, Mizel Global Cultural Fund, and The Faye and Charles Schayer Endowment Fund.
Inscription and Marks
4 3/4 inches
- Abrams, Jeanne E., 1951- (Contributor)
- Altman, Moses Joseph
- Altman, Yente (Annie)
- Beth Israel Home for the Aged (Denver, Colo.)
- Colorado
- Congregation Zera Abraham (Denver, Colo.)
- Cotopaxi (Colo.)
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)
- Denver (Colo.)
- Englard, Frieda Shames Makovsky
- Grimes, Ed
- Hart, E. S.
- Helprin, Michael
- Immigrants
- Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)
- Jewish men
- Jewish women
- Kiesler, Adolph, 1880-1967
- Kiesler, Sarah Bessie, 1880-1928
- Lauterstein, Kayla Nudelman
- Lawyers
- Merchants
- Milstein, Nettie
- Milstein, Shul Baer, d. 1915
- Muhlstein, Jacob
- Nudelman, Joseph
- Oswald, Nancy
- Pettit, Steven (Contributor)
- Prezant, Charles
- Prezant, Clara
- Quiat Family
- Quiat, Gerald
- Quiat, Simon, 1887-1981
- Quiatkowsky, Hannah Shames
- Quiatkowsky, Philip
- Rabbis
- Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society (Contributor)
- Saltiel (Colo.)
- Saltiel, Emmanuel
- Saltiel, Miles
- Schradsky Family
- Schradsky, Max
- Schwarz, Julius
- Shames, Frieda Reizel, 1856-
- Shames, Isaac Leib Milstein
- Shames, Jacob (Yankel), 1885-1950
- Shames, Michael (Michel), 1856-
- Shuteran family
- Singer, Henry
- Singer, Ruchel Shames
- Starwest Productions (Contributor)
- University of Denver (Contributor)
- University of Denver. Center for Judaic Studies. Ira M. Beck Memorial Collection of Rocky Mountain Jewish History (Contributor)
- University of Denver. Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies (Contributor)
- West Colfax (Denver, Colo.)
Creator
- From the File: Abrams, Jeanne E., 1951- (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository