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Jewish families

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 550 Collections and/or Records:

Immigration Documents and Portrait of the Dolinsky Family, between 1900-1920

 Item
Identifier: B063.05.0005.00019
Abstract

Composite photograph featuring a Polish passport and document along with a Dolinsky family portrait. The portrait photograph includes: Nechama (Mollie) Dolinsky Goldberg, her father and two brothers. This composite photograph was probably taken in the 1970s, however the documents and portrait date to around 1910.

Dates: between 1900-1920
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Families and Groups / Box 5

Interior View of the Star Bakery, circa 1920

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Identifier: B063.01.0001.00010
Abstract Members of the Boscowitz and Rubin families stand in the Star Bakery store surrounded by loaves of bread. Pictured from left to right are Rudy Boscowitz (Boscoe), Elya (Eli) Rubin, Eva Boscowitz Rubin and Sam Boscowitz (Boscoe). Located at 2744 West Colfax in Denver, Colorado, the Star Bread Company (operating as Star Bakery) was founded by East European immigrants Eva and Jacob Boscowitz in 1907. After her husband's death in 1909, Eva Boscowitz continued to operate the store, later marrying...
Dates: circa 1920
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Businesses / Box 1

Interviews with Morris and Eleanor Judd, 1981

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Identifier: B266.04.0008.0011
Scope and Contents

Interviews conducted by students of the religious school of Congregation Har Hashem, Boulder, Colorado.

Dates: 1981
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B266, Winograd Judd Family Papers / Judd Documents and Papers / Box 8

Isaacs Family, circa 1914

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Identifier: B063.05.0005.00021
Abstract

Members of the Isaacs family pose together in front of a blacksmith shop at 1327 Larimer in Denver, Colorado. Left to right Sadie Dorothy Isaacs, Abraham Isaacs, Charlotte Isaacs, and Grandma Pinter Isaacs. The family's residence was next door on 12th Street between Market and Larimer. Painted on the wall of the blacksmith shop is ''Phone Champa 3739'' and hanging on the wall is a sign that says ''Work team for sale.''

Dates: circa 1914
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Families and Groups / Box 5

Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt, circa 1945

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Identifier: B315.01.00015
Abstract

Isadore (Shea) and Yetta Prezant Levitt are standing on a sidewalk at 15th and Grove streets near their home in Denver, Colorado. Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt came from Russia and settled in the Eastern European Jewish neighborhood around West Colfax Avenue in Denver.

Dates: circa 1945
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B315, Levitt Family Papers / Digital Photographs

Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt 50th Wedding Anniversary, circa 1948

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Identifier: B315.01.00003
Abstract Isadore (Shea) and Yetta Prezant Levitt are standing inside the Congregation Zera Abraham synagogue in a full-length portrait. Yetta Levitt is wearing a dress with a corsage and Isadore Levitt is wearing a suit and hat with a boutonnière. They came from Russia in the early 1900s and settled in the Eastern European Jewish neighborhood around West Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado. The Zera Abraham synagogue, at 1560 Julian street, was founded in 1887 by former colonists in Cotopaxi,...
Dates: circa 1948
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B315, Levitt Family Papers / Digital Photographs

Isadore Elkan and Anna Freudenthal Solomon, 1997

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Identifier: B111.09.0009.0012
Scope and Contents I. E. (Isadore Elkan) Solomon was born on May 23, 1841 in Kruschwitz, Prussia and moved to Pennsylvania in 1858. He became a US citizen in 1865 and married Anna Freudenthal in 1872 after meeting her in Poland. They moved to Arizona with their three children in 1876, opening a store shortly afterward in the town that came to be known as Solomonville. The town grew, and the Solomon Commercial Company incorporated more and more items and industries, selling automobiles and opening a flour mill,...
Dates: 1997
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 9, S-V / Box 9

Israel and Anna Winograd Family, between 1925-1930

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Identifier: B266.05.0003.00007
Abstract

Israel Winograd stands with his wife Anna, his daughter Dolly, son Nachi, and two others in front of trees. Israel Winograd was the son of Berach Winograd and nephew of Abe Winograd.

Dates: between 1925-1930
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B266, Winograd Judd Family Papers / Photographs / Box 3: Digital Photographs

J. M. and Rosa Kahn Tombstone in Trinidad, Colorado, 1976

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Identifier: B063.02.0018.00129
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains materials intentionally assembled by the Ira M. and Peryle Hayutin Beck Memorial Archives of Jews in the Rocky Mountain region. The bulk of the photographs are from or related to various towns in Colorado, but the collection also contains photographs from other states in the western United States and other countries. There are some 19th century photograph types represented in the collection, including albumen prints, daguerrotypes, tintypes, post cards, colorized...
Dates: 1976
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Community / Box 18

Jacob and Charlotte Gordon and their Daughters, circa 1920

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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
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Families and Groups / Box 13

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