Jews
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Blazing the Trail: An Early History of Denver’s Jewish Community, 2009
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Identifier: B230.03.0023.00008
Abstract
Brief description of several early Jewish leaders of commerce, philanthropy, religion, and community as well as several Jewish lawyers, doctors, merchants, and politicians in Colorado.
Dates:
2009
Citizens of the State: Colorado's Early Jewish Politicians, 2007
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Identifier: B230.03.0023.00006
Abstract
This film examines the pivotal role early Colorado Jewish citizens played in the state's political life. Despite their distinction as a religious minority, pioneer Jews in communities throughout Colorado were viewed as a positive and stablitizing influence who upheld morality and order in the new settlements. Virtually every town in Colorado had a Jewish mayor by the turn of the nineteenth century, including Denver, Central City, and Fairplay. Includes brief biographies of Jewish men and...
Dates:
2007
Growing up in Early Colorado: The Lives of Jewish Children, 2012
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Identifier: B230.03.0023.00011
Abstract
Brief biographies of Jewish men and women who grew up in Jewish communities in Colorado. Contains historical photographs and interviews with people describing their childhoods.
Dates:
2012
Portrait of the Louis Anfenger Family, between 1895-1900
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Identifier: B063.05.0005.00006
Abstract
Louis (1842-1900) and Louise Schlesinger (1847-1938) Anfenger seated front center, with their eight children. Children, back row, left to right: Max, Fannie, Stella, Milton, and Fred. Children front row: Harold, Flora, and Joseph. Louis Anfenger was born in Bavaria and came to the United States in the 1850s. He moved west to Denver, Colorado in 1870, started out working as a clerk, and became a highly successful businessman in the area of real estate. Louise He was also elected to the state...
Dates:
between 1895-1900
Program for B'nai B'rith Denver Lodge 25th Anniversary, 1897 April 7
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Identifier: B091.02.0001.0003.00001
Abstract
Program of twenty-fifth anniversary of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith Lodge No. 171 (Denver, CO) that took place at the Windsor Hotel in Denver. The program has a silver and blue cover with ''I.O.B.B. Denver Lodge No. 171'' written above and below an image of an Menorah. The program lists the officers and committee members, the musical selections, the menu, the toasts, the dances, and has a synopsis of the history of Denver Lodge, No. 171. Milton Anfenger's father Louis Anfenger was...
Dates:
1897 April 7