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Synagogues -- Colorado -- Denver

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:

Oral History Interview with Walter Stark, 1981 July 8

 Item
Identifier: B098.13.0010.00003
Abstract

Early history of Rodef Shalom, of which Walter was a charter member, he served as president from 1968-1969 and was also Man of the Year.

Dates: 1981 July 8

PR Photographs, 2004-2006

 File
Identifier: B353.05.0001.0037
Abstract

Photographs of the unrenovated interior, exterior, interior of tent, and constrution.

Dates: 2004-2006

Rabbi C. E. Hillel Kauvar Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B221
Abstract Rabbi Charles E. Hillel Kauvar was a rabbi for 69 years at the Beth Ha Medrosh Hagodol (The Great House of Learning) Synagogue in Denver, Colorado. He was also a professor of rabbinical literature at the University of Denver for 43 years and helped establish the Center for Judaic Studies at the University. After he retired from teaching, the University of Denver honored him by establishing a Kauvar Chair of Hebraic Studies. Rabbi Kauvar was born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1879 and began as...
Dates: 1930-1978

Rodef Shalom Records

 Series
Identifier: B231
Abstract Congregation Rodef Shalom is a Conservative Congregation in Denver, CO. The collection contains copies of sermons, Torah study materials, directories and planners, materials from the 1973 Midwest Region United Synagogue Convention, 25th anniversary celebration, stained glass dedication and other Miscellaneous documents relating to Rodef Shalom. The collection also contains one folder of materials relating to the Rodef Shalom Sisterhood which includes calendars, ephemera, roster and meeting...
Dates: 1962-1987

Rodef Shalom Sisterhood Luncheon, 1981 May 14

 Item
Identifier: B098.01.0004.00071
Abstract

Each president of the Rodef Shalom Sisterhood recalled her term in office, tape ran out during recording so some past presidents were not recorded. Also includes songs from past shows of the Rodef Shalom Players.

Dates: 1981 May 14

Temple Sinai (Denver, CO.), 2005

 File
Identifier: B132.01.0001.0015
Scope and Contents

File contains published article "In the Beginning: The First Years of Temple Sinai" by Arlen Ambrose, from the Temple Sinai Archives Committee in Denver, CO. from September 2005.

Dates: 2005

Temple Sinai Slides

 Collection
Identifier: B259
Abstract

Temple Sinai is a Reform Synagogue in Denver founded by Rabbi Raymond Zwerin in 1967. It is located at 3509 S. Glencoe Street. Collection contains slides, negatives, and architectural negatives from Temple Sinai. Several slides of Rabbi Zwerin from about age 3 on, Zwerin family photographs, photos of Temple events and construction.

Dates: circa 1940-1987

TRI-Sulom Congregation Records

 Collection
Identifier: B373
Abstract

The Talmudic Research Institute (TRI-Sulom Congregation) was an orthodox Chasidic synagogue and study center organized by Rabbi B. C. Shloime Twerski in 1970. He was succeeded in 1981 by his son Rabbi Mordecai D. Twerski. Rabbi Mordecai Twerski led the TRI-Sulom until returning to New York in 2000. The records consist of three annual fundraising dinner journals.

Dates: 1984-1991

Zera Abraham and Chevra Shaas (Denver, CO.), 1889- 2004

 File
Identifier: B115.01.0001.0019
Abstract Congregation Zera Abraham (The Seed of Abraham) was organized on strictly orthodox lines, was founded in 1887 by a group of Russian Jews from the unsuccessful agricultural colony of Cotopaxi in southwestern Colorado. Ed Grimes served as president and Mecheeol Solomon was the secretary. There was a Mikvah (ritual bath) at the rear of the property. The first Rabbi, David Radinsky, graduated from the Rabbinical College at Kovno, Lithuania. The Chevra Shaas of Denver was established in 1893 by...
Dates: 1889- 2004