Jewish musicians
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Jacob Lefkowitz Cantorial Melodies
Collection
Identifier: B177
Abstract
Cantor Jacob Lefkowitz was considered one of the preeminent American-born cantors of the 20th century and composed liturgical music for prayers, psalms, cantatas and recitatives. His first cantorial positon was at Denver's Hebrew Educational Alliance, where he was cantor from 1941-1957. Jacob Lefkowitz was born in 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cantor Jacob Lefkowitz Cantorial Melodies collection contains three 33rpm 12-inch records with "Cantorial Melodies" composed and sung by Cantor Jacob...
Dates:
circa 1950
Morris Chernoff Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: B316
Abstract
Collection contains scrapbook from Morris Chernoff from 1916-1925, and a newspaper clipping from 1938.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1916-1925, 1938
Rosen And Sladek Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: B292
Abstract
Russian Jewish immigrants Samuel Castille and Zelda Goldberg Rosen settled on Denver's west side and raised 13 children. Their daughter Clara Rosen married Joseph Rosen and they had four children including Selma Rosen who married Osi Sladek. Joseph Rosen began selling newspapers in Denver at the age of seven, starting out as a helper for his future brothers-in-law Max and Al Rosen. Hyman Rosen was born in Denver in 1916, the third youngest of the 13 children of Samuel and Zelda Rosen. He...
Dates:
1960-2015
Tucker and Eisenberg Digitized Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: B299
Abstract
Collection contains 2 digitized scrapbooks from Richard B. Tucker (Denver area banker and philanthropist) from 1968 through 2003 and one scrapbook about David E. Eisenberg (violinist) from 1922-1944. Richard B. Tucker's mother, Sylvia Eisenberg Tucker, was David E. Eisenberg’s sister.
Dates:
1922-2003