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Jewish families

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 553 Collections and/or Records:

Hy Rosen, 2000 - 2004

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Identifier: B292.01.0001.0001
Abstract Hyman Rosen was born in Denver in 1916, the third youngest of the thirteen children of Samuel and Zelda Rosen, Russian Jewish immigrants who settled on the west side of Denver. Hyman Rosen began selling papers in 1922 for the Denver Post and continued as a newsboy for eight years. He married Rose Levitt of Denver and they moved to Orange County in California. The folder contains a letter from The Denver Post referencing a report on Denver newsboys, an eulogy for Hy Rosen dated 27 October...
Dates: 2000 - 2004

Ida Bloom at Downings Coal and Feed, 1915

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Identifier: B409.02.00001
Abstract

Digitized copy of photograph of Ida Bloom with bales of hay at Downing Coal and Feed Store on 2800 Downing street. In the storage room there is a ladder, a barrel, a large scale, cubby hole shelving, and filled burlap bags. Sam Bloom was born in Denver, Colorado in 1911. His parents were Pizer and Ida Strait Bloom. Pizer was born in Poland in 1885 and Ida was born in New York City in 1894. The couple opened Downing Coal and Feed store in Denver, Colorado.

Dates: 1915

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

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Identifier: B063.05.0005.00017
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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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