Jewish families
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Box 2, 1945-1952
File — Box B159.01.0002: Series B159.01; Series B159.02; Series B159.04 [Barcode: U186022109757]
Identifier: B159.04.0002
Abstract
One file folder of Sunday school and background material.
Dates:
1945-1952
Box 25: Awards - HEA
File — Box B401.03.0025: Series B401.03 [Barcode: U186023300746]
Identifier: B401.03.0025
Abstract
Box contains plaque for the HEA Chai Campaign awarded to Jordon and Essie Perlmutter.
Dates:
1970-2016
Jacob and Charlotte Gordon and their Daughters, circa 1920
Item
Identifier: B063.05.0013.00016
Abstract
Jacob and Charlotte Gordon stand in front of a building. In front of them are their daughters, Bess (with a large bow), Baila, and Eleanor. A son born later is not shown in the photograph. Jacob, a schohet (a kosher slaughterer in the Jewish tradition), Talmudic scholar, and later a mohel (one who performs the ritual circumcision), migrated to Denver, Colorado, in 1914 from Russia to join his uncle, Velvel Heller. By 1917 Jacob Gordon saved enough to bring his wife and daughter Bess from...
Dates:
circa 1920
Oral History Interview with Louis Cook, 1977 July 6
Item
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
Oral History Interview with Wolfe Karsh, 1977 March 1
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0001.00008
Abstract
Wolfe Karsh discusses his family's emigration from Poland to Denver, Colorado when he was three years old. He describes Jewish life in Denver in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Jewish religious community in the early 20th century. He talks about Shul Baer Milstein and the Hebrew Educational Alliance. He also discusses his interest in singing, his various jobs in Denver, his experience in the U.S. Navy, and his experience as a farmer and cattle rancher.
Dates:
1977 March 1