Jews -- Colorado -- Social life and customs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Center for Judaic Studies (Beck Archives) Records
Collection
Identifier: B131
Abstract
The Center was founded by Rabbi C. E. Kauvar and Rabbi Stanley Wagner at the University of Denver. Collection contains correspondence and administrative records from the Center of Judaic Studies from 1975-1988.
Dates:
1975-1988
Dr. Stanley Hordes on Crypto-Jews, 1991 March 1
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0006.00144
Abstract
Program put on by Genealogical Society of Hispanic America and Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Association about the Hispano-Crypto Jews of Colorado with guest speaker Dr. Stanley Hordes.
Dates:
1991 March 1
Edward Silverberg Papers
Collection
Identifier: B146
Abstract
Edward Silverberg was born in 1894 in Denver, Colorado and graduated from Colorado College of Dental Surgery. After serving in the army during World War I, he began his dental practice in Denver, where he was affectionately known as "Dr. Ed." He also served in World War II and was retired as a colonel in 1954. He worked actively in the Reserve Officers Association. He volunteered in many charitable and community organizations, including B'nai B'rith, Ex-Patients Home, and was a founder and...
Dates:
1915-2011
Green Gables Country Club Photographs and Records
Collection
Identifier: B335
Abstract
Green Gables Country Club was the suburban successor of the Progress Club (1885-1929). The club was founded by 8 Jewish business men because Jews were often denied membership to similar organizations. The historic club became a social center for Denver’s well-to-do Jewish Community. It sat on 152-acres at 6800 W. Jewell Ave., unincorporated land next to Lakewood. Financial difficulties and declining membership closed the club in 2011, and the land sold to a housing developer for $15...
Dates:
1928-2011
Grossman Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: B155
Abstract
The Grossman family emigrated to America from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and moved to Denver because of tuberculosis. Abraham Grossman was an active member of the traditional Beth Ha Medrosh Hagodol (BMH) Synagogue and later of the Oheb Zedek Congregation which broke away from BMH in 1911. The Oheb Zedek Congregation rejoined the parent synagogue toward the end of the Great Depression. Abraham Grossman was the proprietor of the Grossman's Haberdashery, located on Sixteenth Street in...
Dates:
1916-1973
Intermountain Jewish News Records
Collection
Identifier: B172
Abstract
The Intermountain Jewish News (IJN) is a weekly newspaper serving the Denver-Boulder communities and the greater Rocky Mountain Jewish community (Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, and Montana). The newspaper was founded in 1913 and had a series of editors before being taken over by Robert Gamzey and Max Goldberg in 1943. Since then the newspaper has been owned and operated by the Goldberg family. Max Goldberg served as publisher from 1943-1972 and Miriam Harris Goldberg served as editor...
Dates:
1951-1973
Marjorie Hornbein on the Jewish History of Trinidad, 1979 June 26
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0003.00058
Abstract
Marjorie Hornbein giving a presentation for Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society about the history of Jews in Trinidad.
Dates:
1979 June 26
Mike Zelinger on Jewish Community Center, circa 1978
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0001.00019
Abstract
Mike Zelinger talks about the startup of the community in Denver as well as the Jewish Community Center (JCC) starting in the early 1920s.
Dates:
circa 1978
Minnette Miller and Edward Blair at Leadville, Colorado, 1978 July 9
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0002.00033
Abstract
"Edward Blair, curator of Healy House, a museum in Leadville, Colo., answers questions from a Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society (RMJHS) tour group about the Healy House and Jewish families in Leadville. Minnette Miller, the oldest living Jewish resident of Leadville at that time, talks about growing up in Leadville and what it was like to live there.Minnette Miller taught school in Leadville, Colorado for 25 years and served as the director of the Lake County Department of...
Dates:
1978 July 9
Newspaper Photocopies and Miscellaneous, 1906-2013
Series
Identifier: B220.02
Abstract
Photocopies of newspaper articles regarding people and events in the Pueblo Jewish community; United Hebrew Center Calendar, and misc. papers.
Dates:
1906-2013