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Jewish families

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 550 Collections and/or Records:

Colorado Jewish Businesses, 1861-1979

 File
Identifier: B112.02.0001.0002
Abstract

File contains information on the history of Jewish businesses by Ken Bass (copy) covering the years from 1861 to 1979, as well as two copies of the Intermountain Jewish News, one from 1935 and one from 1937. The report by Ken Bass from 1979 is titled "The Story of Jewish Achievement" and covers "The Samsonite Story," "Star Bread Company's Story," "The Frankel Stationery Story," "The Central Electric Story," "The Guggenheim Story," and general "Observations."

Dates: Coverage: 1861-1979

Construction Records, 1865-1990

 Series
Identifier: B088.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains records of the Judd construction company and personal papers of members of the Judd family. The materials in this collection primarily relate to the operation of the Judd Construction Company from 1949 through 1991 and concentrate on the construction industry in Denver, Colorado. The papers include legal documents, advertising, financial statements, checkbooks, bids on construction jobs, prints of architectural renderings for dams, blueprints, correspondence,...
Dates: 1865-1990

Contact Prints of the Winograd Family Photographs, between 1912-1932

 Item
Identifier: B063.05.0013.00034
Abstract

Contact prints of 35 millimeter roll of film. Photographs from the Winograd family. Two are of Rebecca Winograd's high school diploma; one is a group portrait of Mary Winograd surrounded by her children - Samuel, Bessie, Betty (Rebecca), Molly, and William; and the remaining nine photographs are portraits two of Bessie Winograd and one each of Harry Winograd, Molly Winograd, Rebecca Winograd, William Winograd, Gertrude Winograd, Mary Winograd, and Sam Winograd.

Dates: between 1912-1932

Cook Family, 2003 June 4-6

 File
Identifier: B111.02.0002.0017
Abstract

Harry "Herschl" Cook (1865-1911) and Ida "Hinda" Cook (1868-1934) left their shtetl Kamin Koshirsky in Poland for the United States in 1892. The couple and their four children settled in Denver on the advice of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and joine the West Colfax community. The family opened a bathouse called Cook's Baths. The Cook Family Reunion was held July 4-6, 2003, in Denver, Colorado.

Dates: 2003 June 4-6

Cookbook, circa 2000

 File
Identifier: B356.05.0026.0010
Scope and Contents

Contains "Generations of Recipes" cookbook created by Valerie Gross Schreiber. The cookbook has recipes from memebers of the extended Bercu and Gross families and also photographs.

Dates: circa 2000

Correspondence, between 1904-1925

 File
Identifier: B356.02.0005.0003
Abstract

The file contains three letters in English and two in English. Two of the Yiddish letters are on Don Bercu and Sons and one letter is on letterhead for M. L. Friedmann, Grossrabiner from Romania. On the back of the Friedmann letter is hand-written in English "Children: You can have breakfast downstairs and I will be back about 8 or 8:30 for you, Daddy." Two letters are written from George Bercu to Olive Bercu in 1916.

Dates: between 1904-1925

Correspondence: England and Theresienstadt, 1940-1944

 File
Identifier: B333.04.0001.0004
Abstract

Correspondence to and from the Loewenstein family during World War II. File includes two Red Cross letters from Marie Loewenstein to Henry Loewenstein when he was in England and four postcards from Ernst and Elizabeth Eylenburg, prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, to the Loewensteins in Berlin, Germany and Karin Steinberg in Vetschau, Germany.

Dates: 1940-1944

Correspondence from Ingrid to Lowenstein Family, 1946-1947

 File
Identifier: B333.08.0002.0004
Abstract

Six handwritten letters in German from Ingrid to the Lowenstein family in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Ingrid is writing from Bath, Somerset, England.

Dates: 1946-1947

"Dad: A Pictorial Biography of Eugene Samuel Spivak", 2018 March, 1919-2013

 Item
Identifier: B250.01.0001.0011
Abstract

Biography of Eugene Samuel Spivak, grandson of Dr. Charles D. Spivak, written by Eugene's son Chuck. Titled "Dad: A Pictorial Biography of Eugene Samuel Spivak".

Dates: 2018 March; Coverage: 1919-2013

"Das Krankenzimmer" or "The Sick Room", 1920

 Item
Identifier: B333.08.0003.0001.00001
Abstract

Black and white lithograph of "Das Krankenzimmer" or "The Sick Room" which is part of a series of works artist Rachel Szalit-Marcus did for Sholom Aleichem's "Menshelakh un Stsenes" published in 1922. The image is of a older man laying in a bed with a young boy by his side, an woman to his right and a man, probably a doctor, seated at the foot of the bed. Medicine bottles are on the bedside table and a Star of David is over the mans head on the wall.

Dates: 1920