Jewish families -- Colorado
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 196 Collections and/or Records:
Gloria Goldman Loeb, 1981-1983
File
Identifier: B407.01.0001.0009.0002
Abstract
File contains photographs of Gloria Goldman Loeb with her daughters Elizabeth and Jaemi, from around 1981 to around 1983. This file includes a picture of Gloria with her older daughter Elizabeth wearing a dress that says "Happy Chanuka", and a picture of the two carving a pumpkin.
Dates:
1981-1983
Goldfain Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: B152
Abstract
Joseph and Nettie Goldfain were East European immigrants from Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania, who settled in Denver. Joseph came in 1900 and Rose came in 1902 with their children. The couple had six children: Rose, Joseph, Ephraim, George, Samuel and Nettie. Collection contains materials related to the Goldfain familiy including correspondence, a diploma, the personal papers of Rose Goldfain and a copy of a citizenship document for Joseph Goldfain. The collection also contains biographical...
Dates:
Coverage: 1904-1980
Goldsmith Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: B313
Abstract
The Goldsmith brothers Henry and Abraham, and their wives, sisters Clara and Rosa Straus Goodstein came to Denver, Kansas Territory in 1859. The next year, Clara Goldsmith was the first Jewish girl born in Denver. Her mother Clara Goldsmith died when she was born and her father Henry, uncle Abraham and aunt Rosa moved to Pueblo, Colorado. She was briefly kidnapped by the Ute Indians, but was traded back for a bolt of calico, flour, and pork rinds. Lena, the daughter of Abraham and Rosa...
Dates:
1854-1992
Goldstein Family Digitized Photographs
Collection
Identifier: B393
Abstract
Moses-Isaac and Faye Rosenthal Goodstein arrived in Denver 1872 after fleeing from Russia Poland to London. Moses-Isaac Goodstein worked for his brother in law Philip Rosenthal in the Swansea Smelting Works and the Denver Rolling Mills. Abraham Grienetz escaped conscription into the Russian Army and moved to Denver. He married Faye Goodstein in 1910 and began a grocery store near the current location of Mile High Stadium. Joe Cohen came from New York’s Lower East side and married Masha in...
Dates:
circa 1885-1970
Goodstein Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: B153
Abstract
Joseph Scher was born in Latvia in 1884 and died in Denver in 1969. He emigrated in 1904 and graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BA degree in Sociology and Economics in 1913. Joseph Scher joined the Immigration Service in 1918 and was an investigator for 32 years. He married Rose Saperstein of Pennsylvania that same year. Their daughter Lillian Marie Scher Goodstein was born in Chicago in 1914 and graduated from the University of Chicago. She was a teacher and school librarian...
Dates:
1893-1980
Gordon Sign Company
Collection — Box B421.01.0001: Series B421.01 [Barcode: U186023258305]
Identifier: B421
Abstract
The Gordon Sign Company was founded by Harry A. Gordon in 1904. It is the oldest full-service sign company in the United States. His two sons, Edward and Leonard Gordon took over the company in the 1940s and later started one of the largest neon sign companies in Colorado. The company was purchased by investors in 2012, but the Gordon Sign Company name was retained by the successor company. Gabriella Marks and Debra Nichols, granddaughters of Leonard Gordon, published a book in 2018 with...
Dates:
2018
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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Gordon Sign Company
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
Guldman Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: B156
Abstract
Collection contains correspondence from Germany of Ludwig Beckhart, the Feldner family, the Kasper Family, the Neubauer family, the Rosenbaum family, the Salomon family, the Schiff family, the Spier family, the Stark family, the Wolff family, and the Zacharias family. The families were trying to get assistance to get out of Germany from the estate of Leopold H. Guldman, who was a wealthy businessman in Denver, his widow Bertha Guldman, and their son-in-law Jacob L. Wolff. Wolff and his...
Dates:
1937-1953
Hebrew Educational Alliance 30th Anniversary Dinner Program, 1992 February 5
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0006.00149
Abstract
Excerpts from the 30th Anniversary Dinner: A Tribute to the 20 Founding Families of the Hebrew Educational Alliance.
Dates:
1992 February 5
Heller Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: B162
Abstract
Max Heller wrote a booklet on the Heller Family and compiled family trees for the Heller and Tajerstein-Auger families. He was born 1915 in the eastern Polish town of Wlodzimierz-Wolynsk also know as Ludmir. Collection contains family histories, family trees photographs related to the Heller family. Collection also contains photo albums from various schools, including Cheltenham, Lake Junior High, the Talmud Torah, and the Colfax school which were attended by Minnie Heller, Max Heller, and...
Dates:
1924-1984
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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Heller Family Papers