Rabbi Stanley M. Wagner Papers

Stanley M. Wagner was born in 1932 in Brooklyn, New York and ordained at Yeshiva University. He was the spiritual leader of BMH-BJ from 1972-1997. He received 6 post graduate degrees, founded the University of Denver's Center for Judaic Studies in 1975, and co-founded the Mizel Museum of Judaica in 1982. 1970-1972, he was the executive vice-president of the religeous zionest (mizrachi). He was directory of the Center for Judaic Studies from 1975 until he retired in 2006. As part of the Center for Judaic Studies, he founded Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society and Beck Archives, and the Holocaust Awareness Institute. He died in Jerusalem in February 23, 2013. Collection contains correspondence, audiovisual programs, scrapbooks and publications related to Rabbi Stanley M. Wagner from 1950 through 1998.