The first of a series of three letters concerning the denial of an insurance policy to a Jewish family in Perham, Minnesota. The letter was mailed to the insurance agent, who then submitted it to the Braufman family. (See local identifiers MHS-D-594 and MHS-D-595.)
Creator:
Rehder, R. H.
Created:
1931-09-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Pearl Bankman Sakol (4th from top right) and her family gather around two tables for the Passover Seder. The view of the photograph is from slightly above.
Creator:
Perlmutter, Daniel
Contributor:
Daniel Perlmutter Photography (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Created:
1945 - 1960
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Volunteers from the Mount Sinai Hospital Women's Auxiliary stand among bookcases filled with books while sorting books for their annual Book Fair, a fundraising event. From left to right are Mrs. Burton (Carolyn) Abramson Mrs. Burton (Lora) Kronick Mrs. Melvin Sigel Mrs. Norman (Dorothy) Pink (Abrams) Ms. Harold (Yetta) Kadesky (Simon). Mount Si...
Creator:
Newell H. Barnard Studio (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Created:
1950 - 1980
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Four volunteers from the Mount Sinai Hospital Women's Auxiliary stand around a table and are surrounded by bookcases while sorting books for the annual Book Fair, a fundraising event. Names listed on the back with no specified order: Betty (last name unknown) Marshie Swaiman Betty Blankman. Mount Sinai Hospital was built in Minneapolis, Minnesot...
Creator:
Newell H. Barnard Studio (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Created:
1950 - 1970
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Founded in 1911, the Ladies Auxiliary raised money for a variety Talmud Torah related functions by sponsoring dances and food and rummage sales. An early outcome of providing women with a role in Jewish education was a fortification of both Jewish and American identity .
Creator:
Morris, Merle S.
Created:
1955
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Men and women sit at rows of long tables for anniversary celebration of the Duluth Talmud Torah. The Duluth Jewish community at its height in the 1930s numbered about 4,000. Duluth's profile mirrored that of larger cities to the south, including a mix of German and eastern European settlers. The fact that both groups arrived within the same deca...
Creator:
Gilbert, Henry W.
Contributor:
Gilbert Studio (Duluth, Minnesota)
Created:
1955
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
The Hillel Israeli folk dance group gathered in front of Northrop Auditorium on the University of Minnesota Campus to celebrate the 34th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel.
Creator:
Geretz, Daniel
Created:
1982-04-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Children of the graduating class of the Saint Paul Talmud Torah nursery school, wearing caps and hand-made costume. The St. Paul Talmud Torah was created in 1956 through the merger of several different Jewish education institutions as a beneficiary of the United Jewish Fund and Council. Oversight for Jewish education was centered in the Jewish E...
Creator:
Fenick, Harvey
Created:
1963
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
President Eisenhower replying to a letter sent by Mr. Pink concerning Brotherhood Week, a public awareness campaign promoting religious tolerance sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
Creator:
Eisenhower, President Dwight D.
Created:
1948-02-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Rabbi Herman Cohen's response to Mrs. P. Braufman's request to read her letter and advise as to its tone and content. (See local identifiers MHS-D-593 and MHS-D-594)
Creator:
Cohen, Rabbi Herman M.
Created:
1931-10-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A large group of young people sitting at a series of long tables in the Temple of Aaron in Saint Paul. United Synagogue Youth (USY) was founded in 1951 to promote living Jewishly to Jewish-American teens. Part educational and part service oriented, the organization encourages youth involvement in Jewish community service work travel and service ...
Creator:
Blumenfeld, Milton J.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Portrait photograph of the young men and women in the graduating class of 1954, from the Minneapolis Talmud Torah. Most of the young people in the photo are about 13, the age at which they would participate in their bar or bat mitzvah.
Created:
1954
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
This family gathering included, at far left, Dr. Edward Liton, a former chief of psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic and Minnesota's first certified child psychologist. Sam Weisberg is at the left wearing the bowler Rose is at the enter wearing the corsage.
Created:
1953
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
This photograph of attendees of the 66th Annual B'nai Brith banquet was taken at the Lowry Hotel in downtown St. Paul. B'nai Brith chapters were established in St. Paul in 1871 and Minneapolis in 1877. The organization was founded in the United States in 1843 by German Jews interested in meeting socially and creating business contacts away from ...
Created:
1936
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Abe Bloomenson and Oscar Wine standing next to packages of clothing collected for Israel from Duluth, Minnesota. A sign on the packages says, "20,000 garments for Jerusalem from Duluth, Minnesota".
Created:
1905-05-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Abe Orbuch was born in a small town in Poland near the Russian border. He fled Poland at 21 to avoid conscription into the Russian military, settling in St. Paul. He bought a Model-T Ford and traveled to small towns outside of St. Paul where he sold fruit. He formed friendships with many in the Polish community in Foley and commuted to a poultry...
Created:
1930
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Sam S. Schwartz, Robert Max, Edward Schwartz, and Fay Schwartz standing outside Abe's Delicatessen at 1901 Plymouth Avenue North in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Created:
1948
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Abraham and Etta Coplinsky sit in chairs on their front porch surrounded by family at 401 Lyndale Ave. North in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Included in the photo, from left to right: Ida, Ira, Harry, and Rickley.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Abraham "Dutch" Kastenbaum was a trained social worker and established the first senior center in Minneapolis. He headed the United Way's Division of Aging, and hosted a poplar cable television show, Senior Citizens Forum, for twenty five years.
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Dr. and Mrs. Reuben Berman assist a child to cut the ribbon during the dedication of the new Berman Center for Clinical Studies in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A counselor at the Jewish Community Center Camp Butwin takes several campers out on a canoe. From left to right: Maggie Grais, counselor; Martha Paper; Laura Kaster; Patti Harris; Naomi Silman; and Gail Gotlieb.
Created:
1967
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Ada Rubenstein receiving the person of the year award given by Israel Bonds Committee. Included in the photo, from left to right: Rabbi Bernard Raskas, Ada Rubenstein, and Arnold Rubenstein.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Confirmation students in graduation dress, posed with their teacher at Adath Jeshurun. Adath Jeshurun was located on the South Side in a building designed by the architect Jack Leibenberg. In the late 1990s the congregation relocated to Minnetonka. Rabbi Gordon is in the back row wearing the tallit.
Created:
1940-06-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Confirmation students in graduation dress, posed with their teacher at Adath Jeshurun. Confirmation is a coming of age practice for post Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. It was originally developed by the Reform movement to follow bar- and bat-mitzvahs in the belief that thirteen year olds were not yet ready to be considered adult and should continue on in...
Created:
1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A photograph showing the front exterior of Adath Jeshurun Synagogue. Adath Jeshurun was founded 1884. It joined together two groups of Jews--immigrants from Russia and Romania--that had settled on Minneapolis's South Side. The building in the picture was, like Temple Israel, designed by Jack Liebenberg in the Neoclassical Revival style. The numb...
Created:
1959
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Members of the Adath Jeshurun Young People's League posing for a cast photo of their production, "Headin' South." Youth organizations in synagogues offered opportunities for socializing and other types of group activities. Adath Jeshurun's youth group organized theatricals and model Seders.
Created:
1937
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Established in 1924, AZA (Aelph Zedik Aelph) is the fraternity component of BBYO (B'nai Brith Youth Organization) for high school aged Jewish boys. The acronym stands for Ahavah (fraternal love), Tzedakah (benevolence), and Ahdoot (harmony). Photograph taken at the Lowry Hotel in St. Paul.
Created:
1929
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Aerial view of customers shopping amidst bookcases filled with books at the Mount Sinai Hospital Women's Auxiliary Book Fair, a fundraising event. Mount Sinai Hospital was built in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during the 1950s to address the discrimination Jewish doctors experienced admitting Jewish patients to local hospitals. The Auxiliary members ...
Created:
1970 - 1985
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Aerial view of customers shopping amidst bookcases and a table filled with books at the Mount Sinai Hospital Women's Auxiliary Book Fair, a fundraising event. Mount Sinai Hospital was built in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during the 1950s to address the discrimination Jewish doctors experienced admitting Jewish patients to local hospitals. The Auxili...
Created:
1970 - 1985
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A family stands outside the Mott Cash Bazaar. The store carried dry-goods, clothing, shoes, crockery, and groceries and was located in Mott, North Dakota.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Lieutenant Zelig O. Berman and Lieutenant Melvin W. Seidschlag make one final check up of an aerial map before making their last cross-country hop. The two fliers completed their post-graduate work at Randolph field, Texas.
Created:
1905-04-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Group meeting to discuss preliminary plans for the casting party for "Sick, Sick, Sixties", a production put on by the Jewish Community Center of St. Paul. Included in the photo, from left to right: Jerome Richter, Mrs. Calvin Calmenson, Herbert Goldenberg, Mrs. Arnold Lapinsky, Jerome Nermer, Mrs. Jason Cohen, and Boris Zuckerman.
Created:
1905-05-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of 4th through 6th graders draws and paints during an art class instructed by Lila Mae Wick at the St. Paul Jewish Community Center. Those pictured include: Karen Fox, Susan Krawetz, Marjorie Abrahamson, Ardyce Berkovitz, Judy Shear, and Lila Mae Wick.
Created:
1965
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of 7th and 8th graders participate in a ceramics class under the instruction of Mrs. Jean Litchy at the St. Paul Jewish Community Center. Those pictured include: Candy Price, Ilene Krug, Gail Cornfeldt, Beth Sigel, and Mrs. Jean Litchy.
Created:
1964
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of children stand outside a school bus at the St. Paul Jewish Community Center before attending the Moppet Theater's play "The Emperor's New Clothes".
Created:
1963
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of children holding up their hobbies in a classroom at the John Hay Elementary School. The school was located at the intersection of Penn and 12th Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school was constructed in 1909 and in the early 1970's, the building was torn down and since then the site has been used as a field for the Lincoln Commun...
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of children working on a project at the McKinley School with Mrs. Albert Levine. Those pictured include, from left to right: Mrs. Albert Levine, Louis Frazier, Collene Manley, Roger Thibodo, Carlos McIntosh, Rhoda Redleaf, and Lynda Byrd.
Created:
1967
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of four women holding up garments for the Mount Sinai fashion show. Those pictured include: Aleine (?) Bloom, Harriet Newman, Sheila Paisner, and Lil (?) Kaplan.
Created:
1979
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of girls make cookies supervised by group leader Sonia Wiener during the St. Paul Jewish Community Center's Sunday Fun Day program at Highland House. Those pictured include: Hannah Mesnik, Andrea Magy, Sue Ellen Patterson, Susan Launer, Debbie Volk, Susan Goodman, Judy Kaitz, and Phyllis Zaikaner.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of girls dressed in circus costumes watch another girls write with her foot during the Jewish Community Center Stay at Home Camp Circus in St. Paul, Minnesota. Those pictured include, from left to right: Beverly Klein, Natalie Schneider, Francis Davidson, and Suzanne Hirsch.
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of men and sales representatives stand behind a table advertising the Kedem Wine Line in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Those pictured include, from left to right: Bill Pantages, Rudy Charney, Lee Pacioni, and Joe Zucker.
Created:
1979
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of preteen boys makes preparations for a cookout during the Tween Trailways summer program at Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Those pictured include: Dennis Rosen, Charles Silverman, Steven Reisman, and John Reilly.
Created:
1962
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of preteen girls stands on the dock while holding the tow rope used in pulling water skiers in the Tweens on Wheels program at Bald Eagle Lake. Those pictured include: Susan Launer, Debby Gross, Cynthia Jacobs, Florence Smith, Joyce Gelb, Judy Kaitz, and John Jacobs.
Created:
1965
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of preteens learning to play tennis under the instruction of staff member Ray Schraeder at the Tween Trailways summer program at Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Those pictured include: Frank Lerman, Judy Nolan, Steve Lyons, David Manafsky, Bobbie Weinberg, and Carla Weinberg.
Created:
1962
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
