Jewish families -- Colorado
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 196 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Sam Bloom, 1990
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0006.00146
Abstract
Topics covered: Coming to Denver in 1914, Blizzard of 1914, mom worked in a feed and hay store and dad hauled, shoveled and delivered coal, dad did lots of odd manual labor jobs to support his family. Later family had a hardware store, then appliance store. Family life.
Dates:
1990
Oral History Interview with Tillie Flaks, 1978 July 25
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0002.00035
Abstract
Interview includes early life in Colorado, Jewish organizations, East High School, and her career as a court reporter.Tape 1, Side A
Minute 0- Family history and migration
Minute 68- Victor, Colorado days 1900-1912; nature of the Jewish community; Jewish-Gentile relations; the observances of Judaism, occupations of men, Jewish identification
209- Moving to Denver, residences, feelings about moving
243- Organizations: 245 BMH, 252 Hadassah, 331- Others
Tape 2, Side B (begins at...
Dates:
1978 July 25
Oral History Interviews with Goldie Bolshen and Abe Goldberg, 1979
Item
Identifier: B098.04.0008.00012
Abstract
Goldie Bolshen: Born in Romania but doesn't remember country, came to Denver because her sister had TB, National Jewish Hospital.
Abe Goldberg: Parents from Russia, born in Denver, father worked in sheet metal, what he did growing up, grandfather, related to Max Goldberg, talks about father, school life, community life, family life, made wash boilers. Talks about buying fish with his mother, local stores.
Dates:
1979
Out of the Holocaust: Gerhard Heimann and Lotte Grünfeld Heimann (Part One), 2002
Item
Identifier: B452.01.0001.0001
Abstract
Part one of oral history interview with Gerhard Heimann and Lotte Gruenfeld Heimann. Gerhard Heimann, born on September 29, 1921 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his childhood in Berlin, where he helped his family with their upholstery business; the aftermath of Kristallnacht when his family determined that the 17 year old should flee to Holland; arriving in Nijmegen, Holland, where he was turned away by a Nazi boarder guard; returning to his family in Berlin;...
Dates:
2002
Paper and Himelgrin Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: B392
Abstract
Both the Paper and the Himelgrin families are of Polish and Jewish decent. The families knew each other in Poland and both immigrated to the United States. The families were united with the marriage of Evelyn Paper and Gerald Himelgrin in 1947. This collection portrays Jewish community life in Denver. This collection includes scrapbooks, photographs, artist sketch books, correspondence, transcripts, marriage certificate and documents relating to the Evelyn Paper Himelgrin and Gerald...
Dates:
1932-2004
Perlmutter and Bernstein Family Digitized Photographs
Collection
Identifier: B347
Abstract
Collection contains (16) digitized photographs of the Perlmutter and Bernstein family. Abe Perlmutter was born in Russia in 1893 and died in Denver on January 15, 1985. He came to the United States on his own when he was 15. At age 19 he became a journeyman mason in New York and saved enough money to bring his family to New York. He moved to Denver in 1911 and married Dora Turner in 1913. They had three daughters, Ann Radovsky, Dubby Bernstein, Ruth Morrison, and one son, Jordon Perlmutter....
Dates:
1910-1960
Photographs, circa 1955-1999
Series
Identifier: B387.01
Abstract
Series contains 23 photographs including one exterior and several interior images of The Drugstore, which Arnold Hayutin owned and operated for 23 years and photographs of Arnold and his family.
Dates:
circa 1955-1999
Photographs of Sigman and Related Families
Collection
Identifier: B441
Abstract
Louis K. Sigman, the owner of K&G packing, the largest independent meat packing plant in Colorado, was the son of East European immigrants. Born in 1881 in New York, he moved to Denver as a young boy. Louis began his meat business with just one calf and went on to become a well-known philanthropist active in the founding of Rose Hospital and treasurer of the National Home for Jewish Children. Sigman made headlines when he gave away thousands of pounds of meat to indigent Denver residents...
Dates:
1890-1990
Pizer and Grimes Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: B219
Abstract
The Grimes family came to the United States from Russia Poland in the 1880s and settled in Denver and in Salt Lake City. The Pizer family were early settlers in Nebraska, where Jacob Pizer was a successful merchant. Annette Frances Pizer was born in Hastings, Nebraska. After she married Julian Lewis, she kept a scrapbook with wedding and anniversary cards. Sam Grimes worked in both Utah and Colorado before starting a junkyard in Denver. His son Max Grimes joined him in the junkyard business,...
Dates:
1892-2000
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