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Jewish families

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 550 Collections and/or Records:

Oral History Interview with Ben and Bessie Glass, 1978 October 22-1979 August 1

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Identifier: B098.08.0009.00001
Abstract

Ben and Bessie Glass both came to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) as patients in 1928. Bessie Glass was treated for six years. They met in the hospital and married in 1931. Ben Glass was a printer at the JCRS bindery from 1928 through 1978. They discuss how the JCRS was like a large family of young adults from all over the country and talk about what life was like at the JCRS. They also talk about the transition from JCRS to AMC Cancer Center.

Dates: 1978 October 22-1979 August 1

Oral History Interview with Charlotte (Lottie) Gold, 1977 August 7

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Identifier: B098.01.0001.00015
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Interview discusses growing up in Leadville, CO; Jewish community. family, childhood activities; beginning her career as a field worker for National Jewish Hospital.

Dates: 1977 August 7

Oral History Interview with Israel Kreiner, 1970

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Identifier: B098.01.0001.00021
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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.

Dates: 1970

Oral History Interview with Joe Chappell, 1981 July 9

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Identifier: B098.13.0010.00001
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Interview covers Joe and his wife Norma leaving BNH and joining Rodef Shalom, highlights of the early history.

Dates: 1981 July 9

Oral History Interview with Joe Glaser, 1979 August 4

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Identifier: B098.04.0008.00020
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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.

Dates: 1979 August 4

Oral History Interview with Joseph H. Silversmith, Jr., 1978 October 8

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Identifier: B098.12.0010.00003
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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.

Dates: 1978 October 8

Oral History Interview with Louis Cook, 1977 July 6

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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 Nelson Schachet, 1982 May 18

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Identifier: B098.01.0004.00094
Abstract Nelson Schachet (1903-1992), born and raised in Denver, recounts his family history including ties to Cincinnati and the family's origins in Lithuania, and his life in the West Colfax neighborhood of Denver during the 1920s and 1930s. He talks about his father's business, Schachet Mercantile Co. located on Morrison Road, and other Jewish-owned businesses in the neighborhood. His father brought Manischewitz matzah to Denver. Bugsy Siegel ate at the delicatessen that was part of the Mercantile...
Dates: 1982 May 18

Oral History Interview with Peryle Hayutin Beck, 1989 February 5

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Identifier: B098.01.0006.00139
Abstract Peryle Hayutin Beck (1914-2006) recalls her family history, including the Ginsbergs' and Hayutins' origins in the Russian Empire; their arrival in America in the late 19th century; the loss of several relatives in World War I; her family's ties to the Lower East Side Jewish community in New York City and Memphis, Tennessee; the arrival of Dora Ginsberg, her paternal grandmother, in Denver, Colorado for health reasons; and the extended family's gradual move from New York to Denver. She also...
Dates: 1989 February 5

Oral History Interview with Rabbi Samuel Horwitz, 1978 June 15

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Identifier: B098.01.0002.00030
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1978 June 15