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Synagogues -- Colorado -- Denver

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:

Congregation Mogen David Records

 Collection
Identifier: B138
Abstract The large Glazerlach (Goldberg) family from Brest-Liovsk organized their own Chassidic (hasidic) congregation in 1885 in the home of Rabbi David Radinsky. The Congregation Mogen David (Shield of David), better know as the Glazerlach Shul, was housed in a brightly painted frame house on the west bank of the Platte River, next to Radinsky Rag factory. The location was prone to flooding and in the 1909 flood the synagogue was filled with eight feet of water. The Mogen David was one of two...
Dates: circa 1890

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

Cornerstone, 1919

 Series — Object B212.00001: Series B212.00001 [Barcode: U186023259000]
Identifier: B212.00001
Abstract

Granite cornerstone Oheb Zadek Congregation engraved with "Organized 1909 Oheb Zadek Congregation Erected 1919."

Dates: 1919

Documents, 1921-

 Series
Identifier: B298.01
Scope and Contents

This series has a copy of the 1921 Affidavit of Incorporation of the Zerah Israel Musach Ashknaz, a certification of the copy, and an envelope from Morris Sapper to Morris Rutland for the Affidavit of Incorporation.

Dates: 1921-

Henry J. Schwartz Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: B413
Abstract

Henry J. Schwartz was born in Russia and came to New York with his parents. He settled in Denver in 1895 and married Mollie K. Kohn in 1898. Henry Schwartz was an original member of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society board of directors and served as president and vice president of the JCRS. He was also a member of the Town Club. Much of the scrapbook has clipplings on the JCRS, but also on politics, Temple Emanuel, and obituaries for Dr. Philip Hillkowitz.

Dates: 1934-1953

Herman Weinberger, circa 1928-1953

 File
Identifier: B111.10.0010.0003
Abstract

Born in 1844, and descended from Hungarian and Galician families, Weinberger emigrated to the U.S. in 1888, folowing several years of teaching, brewery management, cattle trading and farming. In Denver he worked as a clerk and grocer, residing on Market Street. Herman and his wife Nettie were founders of B.M. H. Synagogue. A stained glass window was created in their honor at B.M. H. in 1953, by their children.

Dates: circa 1928-1953

JCPL Oral History with Susan and Bernie Goldman , 2010 November

 File
Identifier: B353.05.0001.0026
Abstract

Correspondence with Jefferson County Public Library regarding the oral history project and transcript of oral history with Bernie and Susan Goldman. 3D model of the synagogue is mentioned in the interview, B353.10.0005.00001.

Dates: 2010 November

JCRS Isaac Solomon Synagogue (Lakewood, CO.), 2001

 File
Identifier: B115.01.0001.0014
Scope and Contents

File contains a newpaper clipping of an article, a copy of a newspaper article, and typed background information about JCRS's Isaac Solomon historic synagogue.

Dates: 2001

Judd Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B088
Abstract The Judd Family papers trace the involvement of the Judd family in the construction industry which began with Abraham Judelowitz who arrived in Denver in the 1880s and was instrumental in the building of the first Beth haMedrosh (BMH) Synagogue. His son, Samuel Judd was born in Denver in 1892 and began as an architect and engineer at the Bureau of Reclamation in 1918. He selected sites and designed many large dams, including Hoover dam. He was the city planner for Boulder City, Nevada and...
Dates: 1865-2009