Circumcision

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Contains copies of records of circumcisions performed by Dr. John Elsner in the Rocky Mountain region. His travels included Colorado towns of Boulder, Blackhawk and Leadville. He also performed circumcisions in Wyoming and New Mexico. The xerox copies of the records are faint and difficult to read.

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This box contains two (2) folders. The first folder contains the original records of circumcisions performed by Dr. Werner Prenzlau. The second folder contains photocopies of the records.

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Contains records of circumcisions performed by Dr. John Elsner in the Rocky Mountain region. His travels included Colorado towns of Boulder, Blackhawk and Leadville. He also performed circumcisions in Wyoming and New Mexico. Most of xeroxed records are faint and hard to read.

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This folder contains photocopies of the original records of circumcisisions performed by Dr. Werner Prenzlau.

Abstract Dr. John Elsner was born in Vienna on May 4, 1844 and came to America with his family after the failed Hungarian Revolution in 1948. Elsner graduated from the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and in 1866 he graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York. He joined a wagon train crossing the plains to Colorado in 1866. Dr. Elsner was Denver's first Jewish physician. He was appointed as county physician in 1870 and was a prime mover in the establishment of Denver's first...

Abstract

This folder contains the original records of circumcisions performed by Dr. Werner Prenzlau.

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This collection contains one (1) collection of original documents and one (1) collection of document copies. The documents contain a chronological list of ritual circumcisions (b'rit milot) performed by Dr. Werner Prenzlau between 1954 and 1984.