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Israel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File

Found in 128 Collections and/or Records:

Denver Chapter of Hadassah Records

 Collection
Identifier: B157
Abstract

The Denver Chapter of Hadassah was organized in 1915. Hadassah is a Zionist organization that combine the Jewish emphasis on social welfare with the ideology of Zionism. The Denver Chapter continues to support Israel and to promote health awareness, education, and Zionist youth programs. The minutes, programs, publications, and scrapbooks and scrapbooks reflect the history of a Jewish women's organization with programs in Israel and Denver.

Dates: 1916-2015

Denver Council of Pioneer Women Records

 Collection
Identifier: B142
Abstract Pioneer Women, the Zionist, labor women's organization in the United States was founded in 1925. The group sought to elevate the public profile of the Zionist Pioneer Women's cooperatives in Palestine. The Pioneer Women supported women workers' organizations through American-based philanthropic efforts. The Pioneer Women also emphasized the importance of women in the American Zionist movement and helped the Jewish working-class immigrant, who believed the aims and ideals of socialist...
Dates: Other: 1928-1973

Dr. Allan Hurst, 1951

 File
Identifier: B111.05.0005.0015
Abstract

Dr. Hurst specialized in tuberculosis at National Jewish Hospital in Denver. In 1950, he was invited by the Workers' Sick Fund (Histadrut) to spend four weeks in Israel studying the problem of tuberculosis. He visited hospitals and clinics throughout the country, studied the immigrant problem, and conferred with groups handling tuberculosis patients.

Dates: 1951

Editorials, Letters to the Editor, 1970-2010

 File
Identifier: B344.02.0001.0003
Abstract

Folder contains correspondence, editorials and letters to the editor written by Jack Greenwald.

Dates: 1970-2010

Embassy of Israel - Public Materials, 1968-1978

 File
Identifier: B093.01.0002.0010
Abstract

Public materials related to the Embassy of Israel.

Dates: 1968-1978

Erna Witsches Schmidmayer: A Holocaust Story from Kindertransport to Pioneer in Israel, 2016-09-16

 Item
Identifier: B452.01.0001.0003
Abstract

Oral history interview with Erna Witsches Schmidmayer.

Erna, born in Odessa, Ukraine, discusses her childhood in Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland); escaping Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport to London, England in 1939; and her immigration to Palestine in 1946.

Dates: 2016-09-16

Feldman Documents, from folder labeled ''Israel - Misc.'', 1964-1972

 File
Identifier: M145.04.0010.0010
Abstract

This folder contains files from a collection of documents that Burton Feldman entitled ''Israel - Misc''. It consists of some correspondence in Hebrew, and a newspaper clipping.

Dates: 1964-1972

Feldman Documents, Gershom Scholem, 1974-1976

 File
Identifier: M145.04.0010.0020
Abstract

This folder contains files pertaining to Burton Feldman's efforts to publish a translation of Gershom Scholem's essay entitled ''Walter Benjamin and his Angel.'' The translation was done by Werner Dannhauser, and the folder also contains his correspondence and a full copy of his translation of the work.

Dates: 1974-1976

Focus on Soviet Jewry, 1968-1978

 File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0003
Abstract

Materials related to the newsletter "Focus in Soviet Jewry," published by the International League for the Repatriation of Russian Jews in London. The League assisted Russian Jews to emigrate to Israel.

Dates: 1968-1978

Giselle Heimann Ratain Family Holocaust Videos

 Collection
Identifier: B452
Abstract This collection details the Grünfeld Heimann family Holocaust stories. Kurt Heimann and Lotte Grünfeld Heimann married in 1938 and took a train with family to Shanghai in 1940 to escape Nazi violence. They survived in the Shanghai Ghetto alongside thousands of other European Jewish refugees until they were able to relocate in 1948. Kurt, Lotte, and their young son relocated to the United States and settled in Denver, Colorado where their second child, Giselle, was born, and where they...
Dates: 1984-2021