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Alan Saliman Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: B399
Abstract
The history of the Saliman family in the Denver area dates to the immigration of the family patriarch Paul Michael Saliman (known as Michael.) As did most Jewish families, Michael and his wife Bessie Radetsky Saliman settled on the west side near Sloan's Lake in 1886. Paul Michael pushed a cart through the alleys of Denver collecting rags and junk to re-sell, finally developing a business of collecting, cleaning and recycling milk bottles for local dairies. Michael Saliman was a leader of...
Dates:
Other: 1874-2000
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Bess Laderman Papers
Collection
Identifier: B430
Abstract
Bess Malin Laderman was born April 2, 1911 in a small village near Kiev, Ukraine. Bess Malin moved to Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 12 and attended public schools and college in Kansas City. She married Rabbi Manuel Laderman in 1933 and the couple moved to Denver, where Rabbi Laderman became the first rabbi of the Hebrew Educational Alliance in 1932. Bess Laderman served in many organizations and was active in the Hebrew Educational Alliance. She was program chair of the Hebrew...
Dates:
1932-2019
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Beth David Sisterhood Articles of Incorporation
Collection
Identifier: B280
Abstract
In 1926, Beth David Sisterhood was founded in an effort to create a new Hebrew school and Jewish social center for the West Colfax area of Denver, Colorado. The Beth David Hebrew School and Center met at the home of the Reverend and Mrs. Jacob Gordon at 1490 Julian Street. In November 1928, Beth David Sisterhood formed an alliance with Beth David Brotherhood and the Denver Hebrew Institute, and this group became known as the Hebrew Educational Alliance in 1929. The collection consists of...
Dates:
1930
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Beth haMedrosh Hagodol Congregation (BMH) Records
Collection
Identifier: B125
Abstract
Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol Congregation (BMH-the Great House of Study) was establsihed in 1892 in a group of rented rooms above co-founder Henry Plonsky's shoe and boot store on Larimer Street in Denver, Colorado. It officially incorporated in 1897 and grew to become Denver's largest modern Orthodox Jewish congregation. The congregation was first housed at 24th and Curtis Streets and then erected a new building at 16th and Gaylord. In 1969 BMH moved to its present location at 560 S. Monaco...
Dates:
1897-1983
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Congregation Shearith Israel (Tenth Street Shul) Records
Collection
Identifier: B139
Abstract
Congregation Shearith Israel (Remnant of Israel), or the Tenth Street Shul as it was also known, was founded in 1899 as a Jewish orthodox synagogue. The young congregation bought a small stone church in Denver at the Tenth Street site in 1903 and remodeled the building to suit its needs as a synagogue. The last of the operating synagogues in the "Old Colfax" area of Denver, Shearith Israel closed its doors in 1958, having been largely used by Jewish businessmen working in the...
Dates:
1900-1979
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Congregation Zera Israel Records and Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: B298
Abstract
Congregation Zera Israel (the Descendants of Israel) was organized on May 1, 1921 in a storefront, as a Lithuanian Orthodox synagogue. It was one of the Orthodox synagogues of West Denver. Rabbi Arthur L. Fine became the leader in 1979 and Morris B. Sapper and Julius Berger were presidents of the congregation. The collection contains Articles of Incorporation, Scrapbooks and Photographs, Events and Memorials.
Dates:
1921-1996
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Hebrew Educational Alliance Records
Collection
Identifier: B159
Abstract
The Hebrew Educational Alliance was formed in 1928 through a merging of the Beth David Sisterhood and Denver Hebrew Institute. Four years were spent raising money to build a synagogue, and in 1932, that was accomplished at Meade Street and West Colfax Avenue (3636 W Colfax Ave.). The combined synagogue and hebrew school followed orthodox minhag and halachah. On October 25, 1932, Rabbi Manuel Laderman arrived in Denver to serve as the first Rabbi of the Hebrew Educational Alliance. In...
Dates:
1940-2007
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Hillel Academy (Denver, Colo.) Records
Collection
Identifier: B165
Abstract
Hillel Academy of Denver is an Orthodox Jewish day school (yeshiva ketana) in which religious and secular instruction takes place for preschool through 8th-grade students. It was begun in 1953 and is part of a network of Orthodox day schools in the United States. The collection contains meeting minutes, administrative notes, scrapbooks, Annual Dinner programs, and appointment calendars of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of Hillel Academy of Denver, Colorado, from 1963 through 1990.
Dates:
1950-2010
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Jack Greenwald Papers
Collection
Identifier: B344
Abstract
Jack Greenwald was born June 14, 1928 in Columbus, Ohio, the youngest son of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Greenwald (1888 - 1954). Rabbi Greenwald Rabbi Greenwald only knew German and had to learn Yiddish before he became rabbi of the Beth-Jacob Shul in Columbus, Ohio, a Yiddi. Jack Greenwald came to Denver, Colorado in 1946 and received his Bachelor of Science of Law, 1950, and his Juris Doctorate, 1952, both degrees from the University of Denver. Professionally, he specialized in the area of...
Dates:
1949 - 2012
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Jacob Gorden Papers
Collection
Identifier: B281
Abstract
Jacob Gorden who was a Schohet, Talmudic scholar, and later a mohel, emigrated to Denver in 1914 from Kolki,Russia to join his uncle, Velvel Heller. Soon Jacob had saved enough to bring his wife Charlotte and daughter Bess over, and the family settled on the Denver's west side. Two more daughters and a son were born in the family. Collection contains papers and notes related to Jacob Gorden from 1920, documents, and digitized photographs from circa 1900 to 1969.
Dates:
circa 1900-1977
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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