Atwood (Colo.)
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Atwood, Colorado, between 1975-2014
Poor Russian Jewish immigrants established the Atwood Colony in 1896 when B'nai B'rith and investment companies encouraged 75 adults and six children to settle in Atwood by offering farm land, seed, water rights, houses, implements, and cattle. The barren colony, lacking promised assistance, was near starvation and failed. By 1899, only a few Jewish families remained.
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).
Moe Katz on Atwood Colony and Various Synagogues, 1979 May 20
Moe Kattz is interviewed on the Atwood Colony, 10th Street Shul (Shearith Israel), living on 11th Street, the Marion Street Shul (Oheb Zadek) and Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol.