Poets, Yiddish
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Ben Glass with H. Leivick, Yiddish Poet, 1933
Item
Identifier: B063.05.0005.00005
Abstract
Portrait of Ben Glass (at left) and H. Leivick (the pen name of Leyṿiḳ Halpern or Leivick Halper), Yiddish poet. Both men were patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Ben Glass was a printer at the JCRS bindery from 1928 to 1978 when it closed. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish working men along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West...
Dates:
1933
Solomon (Yehoash) Bloomgarden, 1927
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Identifier: B111.01.0001.0013
Abstract
Solomon (Yehoash) Bloomgarden (1870-1927) was a translator of the Bible, a scholar, and a Yiddish poet. He lived in Denver from 1896 to 1909, during which time he was deeply involved with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Bloomgarden was the first chairman of the Press and Propaganda Committee of the JCRS, and sat on the Board of Trustees until his death.
Dates:
1927