Jewish families
Found in 549 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Charlotte (Lottie) Gold, 1977 August 7
Interview discusses growing up in Leadville, CO; Jewish community. family, childhood activities; beginning her career as a field worker for National Jewish Hospital.
Oral History Interview with Israel Kreiner, 1970
Israel Kreiner came over from Austria when he was 7 years old. He traveled across the country in a group with other Jewish families on a train from Philadelphia to San Francisco. Was part of a Jewish cooperative colony. Talks about his family and wife. His father had semicha.
Oral History Interview with Joe Chappell, 1981 July 9
Interview covers Joe and his wife Norma leaving BNH and joining Rodef Shalom, highlights of the early history.
Oral History Interview with Joe Glaser, 1979 August 4
Topics covered: Early life in Austria, Chedar education, only surviving child of 10 boys (all others died in infancy, mother died at tuberculosis, Czarist Russia, Polish/Russian relations, came to US at 15 years old, memories of his grandparents, ended up in South Bend, Indiana with his uncle working with horses, went to night school to learn English, farm work, Austrian Army, married and lived in Toledo.
Oral History Interview with Joseph H. Silversmith, Jr., 1978 October 8
Topics cover family history, family in Missouri and Denver family history; Jewish community, time as President of the NJH board, endowment at University of Denver and taught insurance courses (insurance program no longer exists), one child worked at Du and one went to DU.
Oral History Interview with Louis Cook, 1977 July 6
Oral History Interview with Nelson Schachet, 1982 May 18
Oral History Interview with Peryle Hayutin Beck, 1989 February 5
Oral History Interview with Rabbi Samuel Horwitz, 1978 June 15
Rabbi Samuel Horwitz talks about New York (his birth place), seminary school, experience as a Jewish Chaplin and a Captain in the US Army during WWII. He speaks about his family and Jewish life in Billings, Montana.
Oral History Interview with Rebecca Stein, 1973 September
Grew up with with her grandmother and aunt in a small town in Russia, antisemitism in the town, process of getting to America, working in a factory in New York City at 14 sewing ladies waists, later making house dresses and then a pattern maker. Came to Colorado because her mother was here. Married another Russian immigrant who peddled goods by wagon in mining towns. Moved to Texas when husband became an oil worker and had problems adjusting without other Jewish families in Texas towns.