In this interview, Rabbi Kassel Abelson speaks of his life, times, and views regarding Judaism. Abelson spent over forty years as senior Rabbi at Beth El synagogue in North Minneapolis and later Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, serving as a leader in the community and as a developer of national Judaic programs and policy. Abelson recalls his family ...
Creator:
Abelson, Kassel
Contributor:
Schloff, Linda (Interviewer)
Created:
1993-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Rabbi Kassel Abelson (1924 - ) discusses his personal background, the details regarding the move of Beth El synagogue from North Minneapolis to Saint Louis Park, and the social-historical context in which the move took place.
Creator:
Abelson, Kassel, (1924 - )
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2012-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
The pamphlet contains recipes for baked goods written in both Enlish and Yiddish. Special issues of these recipe booklets were issued in different languages to introduce non-English speakers to American products.
Creator:
Ames, Mary Ellis
Contributor:
Pillsbury's Cooking Service
Created:
1923
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
This audio is part of the Mount Zion Oral History records, which consists of oral histories conducted with members of Mount Zion Temple in Saint Paul, Minnesota as research in preparation for Mount Zion Temple's 150 anniversary in 2006. This oral history is part of the series on Holocaust Survivors.
Creator:
Amran, Fred; Mount Zion Temple
Contributor:
Fodor, Charles
Created:
2006-08-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Harold Arenson gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and World War II veteran. He was born in 1922 in St. Paul. Arenson explains the while attending the University of Minnesota he joined the Service as a combat engineer and eventually fought in France, Belgium and Germany. He suffered an injury but continued to s...
Creator:
Arenson, Harold, 1922-?
Contributor:
Hoffman, Susan (Interviewer)
Created:
2006-10-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Roz Baker (1923 - ) gives an account of her life as a Jewish native of Minneapolis. She relates her family background which includes an immigration story to the United States from Russia through Cypress in 1915. She describes her childhood growing up Jewish in Minneapolis, relating memories of Labor-Zionist meetings, holiday t...
Creator:
Baker, Roz, 1923 -
Contributor:
Schulman, Ann (Interviewer)
Created:
1999-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
This audio is part of the Mount Zion Oral History records, which consists of oral histories conducted with members of Mount Zion Temple in Saint Paul, Minnesota as research in preparation for Mount Zion Temple's 150 anniversary in 2006. This oral history is part of the series on Social Justice.
Creator:
Bentson, Larry; Mount Zion Temple
Contributor:
Sampson, Ellen
Created:
2005-04-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Bruce Berezovsky discusses information about himself and his family. He talks about where they lived and how involved they were in the synagogue. He also discusses his education at the University of Minnesota where he earned an undergraduate degree in Political Science. He earned a Master's degree in History at the University ...
Creator:
Berezovsky, Bruce
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2011-07-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Paula Beugen discusses personal information about where she grew up and where her family lived. They moved to St. Louis Park in 1957. They belonged to Beth El Synagogue, and she attended Talmud Torah. She attended the University of Minnesota and Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare and Child Psychology. She also has Senior Manag...
Creator:
Beugen, Paula
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2012-06-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Letter to Erwin Oreck from L. M. Birkhead at the Friends of Democracy, Inc. thanks Erwin for sending information and states that they will do an "expose of O'Konski and his connections."
Creator:
Birkhead, L.M.,
Created:
1947-07-14
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.
In this interview, recognized leader in the Minneapolis community Marvin Borman gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan, war veteran, and legal practitioner. He was born in Indianapolis in 1923 and attended the University of Michigan in 1940 as president of the Zeta Beta Tau Jewish Fraternity. Borman describes how his family owned a ...
Creator:
Borman, Marvin, 1923-?
Contributor:
Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:
2009-09-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Videotape was recorded for the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, where Judge Bright served. It gives background history of Judge Bright and his family, who came from Eveleth, Minnesota and his career as a lawyer and judge.
Creator:
Bright, Judge Myron
Created:
1987-08-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Myron Bright was a federal judge in the state of Minnesota. In this interview, he gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and legal practitioner. Bright was born in 1919 in Eveleth, Minnesota. He explains how his Jewish Orthodox father was possibly a fisherman in Russia near the Black Sea, who deserted the Russian Army near Germany, ...
Creator:
Bright, Myron, 1919-?
Contributor:
Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:
2010-03-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Joseph Brochin gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and World War II veteran. Joe Brochin was born in 1918 and raised on the North Side of Minneapolis where his father operated a store. He discusses how he studied pharmacy at the University of Minnesota, enlisted in the military, and went to the South Pacific in...
Creator:
Brochin, Joseph, 1918-?
Contributor:
Siegel, Diane (Interviewer)
Created:
2005-07-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Esther Brody discusses her early Jewish life in St. Paul and involvement in the Jewish community. She was born in 1906 to Rose and Isaac Weinstein, of Russia in St. Paul, in what is now called Lower Town, where she was raised. Brody recounts decades of work with Junior and Senior Hadassah, B'nai B'rith where she was president ...
Creator:
Brody, Esther, 1906-?
Contributor:
Markowitz, Ruth (Interviewer)
Created:
1982-09-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Edward Bronstein (1903 - ) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, into a family of recent Jewish settlers from Prussia who were operating a local mattress factory. In this interview, Bronstein recalls the story of his family settling in St. Paul, describes the city with particular attention to different religious groups and their relations, as well as...
Creator:
Bronstein, Edward, 1903 -
Contributor:
Devitt, Lois (Interviewer)
Created:
1982-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Mel Burnstein gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and legal practitioner. He was born in 1933 and raised in St. Paul by Russian Jewish parents. He discusses some family history related to Russia and St. Paul, growing up in St. Paul in Highland Park, and some details about the West Side of St. Paul. He started i...
Creator:
Burnstein, Mel, 1933-?
Contributor:
Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:
2008-01-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Abe Calmenson gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan. He describes involvement in the early Zionist movement around the United States and what was then Palestine. While there Calmenson co-founded the Jerusalem School of Music. Topics associated with Zionism in this interview were the ZLA, Theodore Herzl, and Henri...
Creator:
Calmenson, Abe
Created:
1978 - 1983
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital inside renovation, cafeteria addition. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expressed the desi...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1963-07-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital inside renovation addition, elevators.Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expressed the desire...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1963-05-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital inside renovation additon. Cafeteria. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expressed the desire for a hospital in the Twin Cities that would admit minorities on its staff. Mount Si...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1963-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital inside renovation addition, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expres...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1963-01-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital inside renovation, nurse station hallway addition. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expres...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1963-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital outside renovation addition, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expr...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1962-12-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital outside renovation addition, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expr...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1962-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital outside renovation addition, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expr...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1962-09-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital outside renovation addition, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expr...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1963-02-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital outside renovation addition, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expr...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1962-08-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital outside renovation addition. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expressed the desire for a h...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1963-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital outside renovation addition, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expr...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1963-02-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital outside renovation addition, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expr...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1962-08-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital outside renovation addition, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expr...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1962-09-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital outside renovation addition, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expr...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1962-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital outside renovation addition, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expr...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1962-10-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital outside renovation addition, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expr...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1963-04-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mount Sinai Hospital outside renovation addition. Contractor C.H. Peterson Const. Architects Liebenberg, Kaplan, Glotter & Associates. After World War II, the idea for a Jewish hospital began circulating as Jewish community members expressed the desire for a hospital in the Twin Cities that would admit minorities on its staff. Mount Sinai Hosp...
Creator:
Chester Freden Photography
Created:
1963-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Judge Lawrence Cohen, mayor of St. Paul during the 1970s, gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan, politician and legal practitioner. Cohen recounts that he was born in St. Paul and has always lived in the western part of the city. He continues talking about how his father was a merchant who sold general wares. Coh...
Creator:
Cohen, Lawrence
Contributor:
Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:
2008-11-24
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.
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 contract between the Russian Brotherhood synagogue and Joe Isololen regarding payment for congregation membership. Payment amounts are specified, and the congregant is assigned seat 35A in the synagogue building.
Creator:
Congregation of the Russian Brotherhood
Created:
1890-12-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Letter to Minnesota Jewish Council from Brownie Cote at Grand View Lodge responding to a letter from August 4 and explaining how they do not discriminate based on faith.
Creator:
Cote, Brownie
Created:
1947-08-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.