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Jewish families -- Colorado

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 196 Collections and/or Records:

Judd (Judelovitz or Judelowitz) Family Tree, 1992 September 23

 Item
Identifier: B338.01.0001.0012
Abstract

Copy of the Judd (Judelovitz or Judelowitz) Family Tree edited by Stanley H. Judd in 1992. A newer version of this family tree can be found in Box 2 of Winograd Judd Family Papers, B266. Judd family tree included because Joe Bernstein married Estelle (Esther) Pollock, a Judd family descendant.

Dates: 1992 September 23
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B338, Bernstein Family Papers / Documents and Prayer Book / Box 1

Kadish Gass Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B358
Abstract Joseph Gass (1870-1943) and his brother Samuel Gass moved to Liverpool, UK. In the 1880s and they immigrated to the United States in 1890. Joseph Gass lived in the failed agrigultural colony at Atwood, Colorado. He moved to Denver, Colorado and married Mollie Kadish in 1896. Mollie Kadish was born in Russia and was brought to Denver by her father Harry Kadish in 1890 from Brest Litovsk, which was part of Russia until 1918. Harry Kadish was an officer in the Russian cavalry during the...
Dates: between 1870-2013
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Kadish Gass Family Papers

Kaplan Family Religious Objects and Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: B188
Abstract

The Kaplan family came from Memphis, Tennessee to Denver, Colorado. Gerson and his wife Adelle Trauke Kaplan were the parents of Belle N., Dora G., and Sallie Kaplan who were born in Memphis and died in Denver, Colorado. Collection contains a photograph, memorial books and ephemera related to the Kaplan Family from 1880-1981.

Dates: Other: 1880-1981
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Kaplan Family Religious Objects and Photograph

Kern Family Tefillin Bag and Wimpel

 Collection
Identifier: B189
Abstract

Sarah Kahn made a traditional wimpel--from the swaddling cloths of Yaakov Ben Naftali Kahn--in Boppard, Germany, in 1899. When the Kahn family came to America in 1938 they changed their name to Kern. In 1940, Charles Kern, Yaakov's brother, married Edith Stern in New York City and the couple moved to Denver, Colorado. Edith Stern was born in Germany in 1914 and emigrated to the United States in 1935. She died in Denver in 2016 at the age of 101.

Dates: 1895 - 1930
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Kern Family Tefillin Bag and Wimpel

Kiesler and Rifkin Families Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B190
Abstract East European Jewish immigrant, Adolph Kiesler, became a noted Colorado philanthropist. Born in Rumania in 1880, Kiesler settled in Denver's West Colfax Jewish neighborhood at the turn of the century, when he began as a peddler. He later recalled "I worked for fifteen cents a day at odd jobs, and then I got a job carring coal for seventy-five cents a ton." Like so many immigrants, he scrimped and saved and after fifteen years and a variety of jobs, he had saved enough money to launch the...
Dates: 1930-1990
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Kiesler and Rifkin Families Papers

Kurt Heimann Holocaust Story, 1988

 Item
Identifier: B452.01.0001.0007
Abstract oral history interview with Kurt Heimann. Kurt, born December 7, 1912 in Berlin, Germany, describes being barred from advancing in his early career because of the German antisemitic laws in the 1930s; his family life; meeting and marrying his wife (Lotte Grünfeld); escaping Berlin, Germany via train on September 16, 1940 with his wife, parents, and brother (Gerhard); arriving in Shanghai, China; life in the Shanghai Ghetto with other Jewish refugees; conditions in the ghetto, including the...
Dates: 1988
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B452, Giselle Heimann Ratain Family Holocaust Videos / Oral Histories / Box 1

Larry Loeb, 1978-1983

 File
Identifier: B407.01.0001.0009.0001
Abstract

File contains photographs of Larry Loeb, including pictures of him with his daughters Elizabeth and Jaemi, from around 1978 to around 1983.

Dates: 1978-1983
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B407, Loeb Family Collection / Documents, Letters, Newsclippings, and Photographs / Box 1 / Loeb Family Photographs

Leonard J. Bernstein's Baby Book, 1916 September 22 -1917 April 3

 Item
Identifier: B338.03.0001.0013
Abstract

Baby book of Leonard Joseph Bernstein, son of Sam J. and Heloise. Includes list of first visitors, gifts, weight and family members.

Dates: Coverage: 1916 September 22 -1917 April 3
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B338, Bernstein Family Papers / Photographs, Scrapbooks and Albums / Box 1

Levitt Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B315
Abstract Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt and their descendants have lived in Denver, Colorado for over a century. Isadore (Shea) and Yetta Prezant Levitt came to Denver, Colorado from Russia in the early 1900s and settled in the Eastern European Jewish enclave around West Colfax Avenue. The Levitt Family Papers contain a family tree, a reunion directory and scanned photographs. The papers reflect the Americanization of an Eastern European Jewish extended family during the twentieth...
Dates: 1876-1995; Majority of material found in 1940-1952
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Levitt Family Papers

Lillian Fogel Rubin Photograph Albums

 Collection
Identifier: B194
Abstract Lillian Fogel Rubin was born in Denver, Colorado on August 17, 1922 to parents who came from Maczyv, Poland through Ellis Island in 1904. Her parents and aunts and uncles were Orthodox Jews. Lillian Fogel's mother belonged to the Sisterhood at the Hebrew Educational Alliance and the Auxiliaries of JCRS and Beth Israel Hospital. Lillian Fogel lived on the West Side of Denver until she married Herman Rubin in 1947 and they moved to Ogden, Utah. Lillian Rubin died in Ogden, Utah on March 24,...
Dates: Other: 1930-1948
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Lillian Fogel Rubin Photograph Albums

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