Jewish pioneers -- Colorado
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Annual RMJHS Dinner, "A Pioneering Legacy", May 7, 2001
This series contains records of the promotional activities of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society to publicize the history of the Jewish experience in the Rocky Mountain West. These activities include: trips to historical sites, annual dinners, fundraisers, and commemorative events.
Beck Archives - Curriculum Guide, circa 1998-2002
File folder contains "A Curriculum Guide for the Study of the Early History of Jews of Colorado", a photograph of curriculum materials, and additional information about the curriculum guide.
Blazing the Trail Exhibit and Colorado History Symposium, 2009
File folder contains brochure for the "Denver Inside and Out" Symposium which took place at History Colorado, as well as a list of objects, item records, and correspondence for the "Blazing the Trail" exhibit.
Box 29: Colorado Jewish History Week, May 25-31, 1992, 1991 - 1993
Box contains eight file folders related to Colorado Jewish History Week, which took place May 25-31, 1992. Topics include publicity, correspondence, general documents, income and finances, contracts, scholar-in-residence, May 31st dinner, and agency fair/history week Shabbat. The box also contains the book produced for the week, A Colorado Jewish Family Album 1859-1992, and sample versions to demonstrate full page/half page advertisements.
Box 43 (Reading Room Exhibit Materials), 2014 - 2018
Emanuel Saltiel, 1942-1995
Fred Zadek Salomon , 1872-1978
Grant Agreement: Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, 1985-1986
File folder contains grant proposal and grant agreement with the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities.
Handleman and Jacobs Scrapbook--Atwood, Colorado, c.1867-c.1970
This scrapbook contains images of individuals from the Handleman and Jacobs families. The Handleman family was an instrumental family in the Atwood colony--surviving longer than many who homesteaded the colony. One image in the scrapbook is from the Atwood colony in 1917 (at which point the Handleman family was one of, if not the last, remaining family).
Herman Weinberger, circa 1928-1953
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.