Judaism
Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:
David Nashelsky Material Culture
Denver Chapter of Hadassah Records
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.
Denver Rabbinical Council and Conversions, 1956-1988
Establishing Jewish Life, Panel 2, 2001
One of 12 exhibit display panels from the exhibit "Blazing the Trail: Denver's Jewish Pioneers." Panel titled "Establishing Jewish Life" and includes Congregation Zera Abraham, Talmud Torah, Shul Baer Milstein, Oheb Zadek Congregation, Tenth Street Shul, and Rabbis Manuel Laderman and Elias Hillkowitz.
Feldman Documents, Notes and Drafts of ''Josephus Play'', between 1950-1960
This folder contains notes and drafts of a play. The piece is called ''Josephus Play,'' and is based loosely on a few historical Judaic figures.
Jewish Activities – Dr. Stanley M. Wagner, Rabbi, 1975-1977
Types of Materials: Correspondence
Jewish Congregations in Colorado, 1918
Article about Congregations, National Jewish Hospital, Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, and B'nai B'rith.
Kaplan Family Religious Objects and Photograph
The Kaplan family came from Memphis, Tennessee to Denver, Colorado. Gerson and his wife Adelle Trauke Kaplan were the parents of Belle N., Dora G., and Sallie Kaplan who were born in Memphis and died in Denver, Colorado. Collection contains a photograph, memorial books and ephemera related to the Kaplan Family from 1880-1981.
Kern Family Tefillin Bag and Wimpel
Sarah Kahn made a traditional wimpel--from the swaddling cloths of Yaakov Ben Naftali Kahn--in Boppard, Germany, in 1899. When the Kahn family came to America in 1938 they changed their name to Kern. In 1940, Charles Kern, Yaakov's brother, married Edith Stern in New York City and the couple moved to Denver, Colorado. Edith Stern was born in Germany in 1914 and emigrated to the United States in 1935. She died in Denver in 2016 at the age of 101.
Kiddush Cup, 1900s
Silver kiddush cup used for wine for the shabbath meals. Bowl of the cup is a heaxagon at the rim with Hebrew script around the outside of the bowl with an acanthus leaf and berry motif below. The base of the cup is round and etched on the bottom reads "remember the holy day of rest."