Jewish families
Found in 550 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Ben and Bessie Glass, 1978 October 22-1979 August 1
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.
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.