Winograd Judd Family Papers

Abraham Winograd immigrated to the United State in 1909. He had been born in Biala, Poland in 1889 and died in Denver in 1971. His future wife, Matilda Pinsky had come earlier with her parents and brother from Lithuania. The couple had two children, Eleanor, born in Denver in 1916 and died in Greeley in 2007, and Harold Winograd, born in Denver in 1921 and died in Greeley in 1971. Eleanor Winograd married Morris Judd, who was born in Denver in 1916 and died in Boulder in 2008. Morris was a philosophy adjunct professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder until he was unjustly fired during the McCarthy era. The Judd family moved to Greeley, Colorado and Morris Judd entered business with his father-in-law Abe Winograd. Their daughter Nina Judd moved back to Boulder after growing up in Greeley. Abe Winograd began a junk yard business in Greeley. The business grew to a large corporation the included a supermarket and steel and supply company. The Windograds were very active in Beth Israel Congregation in Greeley and Abe Winograd was a founder of the Hebrew Educational Alliance in Denver.hgyyt6 Collection contains correspondence in Yiddish to and from Abe Winograd, Greely Tribune newsclippings, journals, affidavits, receipts, photographs, cassettes, and oral histories related to the Winograd and Judd familes from 1870 through 2013. It also includes recollections of Eleanor Winograd on her trip to Russia and Poland in 1936.