Jewish way of life
Found in 116 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Duddie Fox, 1979 November 15
Topics covered: Fox's involvement with Federation and it's beginnings, Sylvia Tucker, women in Federation, educating others about Zionism, memories of her husband, family and Sylvia Tucker, discussion on minutes.
Oral History Interview with Edna Zivin, 1982 December 16
Begins talking about how father came to Philadelphia from Russia, then to Denver in 1901 and worked as a tailor. Mother came as a governess from Poland. Father a unionist and mother a suffragette. Yiddish speaking home, went to East high, talks about work life, marriage, children and financial hardships.
Oral History Interview with Edward Hirschfeld, 1980 June 2
Topics covered: Beth Israel hospital and his ties to other community organizations. Brief personal history.
Oral History Interview with Eleanor Judd, 1984 February 21
Topics include her parents (Winograd) immigration to America through Elis Island, dad ran a junkyard, growing up Jewish in Greeley, Colorado, the Klu Klux Klan in Greeley, Eleanor’s trip to Europe in the 1930s.
Oral History Interview with Florence Greenblatt Siegel, 1979 August 1
Informal conversation with Florence about family history in Denver and her family’s immigration from England.
Oral History Interview with Forrest Meyer, 1984 November 1
Oral History Interview with Frank Quicksilver, 1979 July 25
Oral History Interview with Gertrude Sigman, 1982 April 1
Parents came to Denver from Russia around 1900 for better living standards, already had some family here. Talks about early life in Denver, bakery and vegetable deliveries, her mother, stores and businesses of the time and people.
Oral History Interview with Hannah Pearl Goodman, 1978
Oral History Interview with Hannah Shwayder Berry, 1981 March 1
Major subjects covered in the interview include the Shwayder and Kobey (originally Kobersky) families, immigrating to Colorado from Poland, Hannah Shwayder Berry’s grandmother Miriam "Mary" Kobey (a Denver midwife nicknamed the “Angel of Mercy”) and refers to book “The Tale of the Little Trunk”; a copy of the book can be found in the Beck Archives.