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Denver (Colo.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File

Found in 55526 Collections and/or Records:

Oral History Interview with Louis Charsky, 1979 May 31

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Identifier: B098.01.0003.00067
Abstract

Louis Charsky talks about working in chemicals and drugs which he'd deliver in a horse drawn buggy, growing up Orthodox and going to BMH, and liquor business.

Dates: 1979 May 31
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 3

Oral History Interview with Louis Cook, 1977 July 6

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Identifier: B098.01.0001.00011
Abstract Louis Cook discusses his father's emigration from Russia and describes Jewish life on West Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado in the early 1900s. He also discusses Cook's Russian Bath House that his parents Harry and Ida operated and the Cook's Bath baseball team, the early Hebrew Education Alliance, and his early career as a newsboy. Louis Cook was born May 8, 1895 in Denver, Colorado, where he lived all of his life. He married Susie Finer in 1918. Cook was one of the founders of the Hebrew...
Dates: 1977 July 6
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 1

Oral History Interview with Louis D. Bronstein, 1990 July 1

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Identifier: B098.01.0006.00141
Abstract

Topics Covered: Born and raised in West Denver, talks about religious learning, school and Jewish Community in Denver and family life.

Dates: 1990 July 1
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 6

Oral History Interview with Louis Siegel, 1979 March 13

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Identifier: B098.01.0003.00063
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Talks about life on Denver's west side, fathers experience with the carrier’s union, pulling a wagon of fruit or ice, doing other manual labor jobs.

Dates: 1979 March 13
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 3

Oral History Interview with Lynette Tescher, 1986 July 7

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Identifier: B098.01.0005.00132
Abstract

Topics covered include family coming to Denver, growing up in Denver, religious services, marriage and family life.

Dates: 1986 July 7
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 5

Oral History Interview with Mandel Winter, 1983 October 1

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Identifier: B098.01.0005.00120
Abstract

Topics covered family coming here for his grandfather’s health. Family came from Germany through Galveston or New Orleans in the mid-1800s. Family ran the Winter-Weiss company which manufactured trucks, trailers, and buses. Covers personal history and family history.

Dates: 1983 October 1
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 5

Oral History Interview with Marilyn Berenbeim, 1978 May 15

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Identifier: B098.11.0010.00010
Abstract

Came in 1950 to Denver to work at the University of Colorado Medical School; originally from Texas. In Texas helped to organize a synagogue in small town with few Jews. President of NCJW from 1962-1964. Majored in Chemistry from University of Texas, Austin. Active in Council whole life, joined Denver Council in 1953-54, President 1961-62. Activities of the Council, thrift shop, Cuban settlement and more.

Dates: 1978 May 15
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / National Council of Jewish Women / Box 10

Oral History Interview with Mary Hoffman, 1978 August 24

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Identifier: B098.04.0007.00004
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Topics include: Her time with the ladies’ auxiliary for her shul, the Ostover Shul named for where family came from, charitable activities, husband’s courtship of her, memories and life stories, coming into Elis Island with a baby, husband died of pneumonia after First World War, starting boarding business in home to support her family, talks a lot about her daughter and her illness.

Dates: 1978 August 24
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / Beth Israel Residents / Box 7

Oral History Interview with Mary Hoffman, 1979 August 6

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Identifier: B098.01.0003.00050
Abstract

Immigration to Denver with seven-month old daughter to meet her husband who had already immigrated. Talks about life with her family, everyday life.

Dates: 1979 August 6
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 3

Oral History Interview with Max Grimes, 1976 September 20

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Identifier: B098.01.0001.00006
Abstract "Max Grimes recounts life in Denver, Colorado, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He discusses the immigration of his ancestors from Russia and Poland to Denver and his father's various attempts to make a living in Denver and Salt Lake City, Utah. Grimes details his boyhood, pastimes, and education in Denver while also discussing numerous Jewish families and businesses in the city in the early 20th century. He recounts his first and second marriages, his brief time studying at...
Dates: 1976 September 20
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 1

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