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.
Group photograph of young women at banquet tables taken during the 11th annual convention of the B'nai B'rith Young Women district 6 at the Congress Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.
Created:
1947
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Lammie high school sorority girls planning for a Halloween party. Jewish high school girls formed their own sororities in the public schools, like North High, where they could plan social activities and take part in service projects.
Created:
1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Stevie Franker and Gerald Bubis pose for a photograph to raise awareness of the Hillel students food drive for displaced persons. Hillel students were involved with relief work for Jewish refugees at the end of the war. During Purim celebrations on campus, food drive co-chairs Stevie Franker and Gerald Bubis posed for a publicity photo to genera...
Created:
1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Histradrut exhibit in the lobby of the Hibbing Memorial building during the Minnesota American Federation of Labor (AFL) convention in Hibbing, Minnesota. Union representatives Jack Jorgenson, Ella Crohn, and E.L Slaughter are shown viewing the exhibit.
Created:
1947
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Hubert Humphrey standing behind a podium and speaking into a microphone during a Hadassah luncheon. Hubert Humphrey was one of several prominent Minnesotans invited to speak at Hadassah luncheons held in downtown Minneapolis. The setting and prominence of the speaker suggests the organization's political clout.
Created:
1947
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A woman stands in front of a microphone, while Hurbert Humphrey sits at the table next to her at a Hadassah Supply Shower luncheon. Hadassah promoted health and welfare services to Jewish women and children in Palestine. By the end of WWII, the Minneapolis chapter of Hadassah was 1900 members strong. This photo taken at the Supply Shower luncheo...
Created:
1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mrs. Archibald Silverman prepares to speak at the United Jewish Appeal dinner at the Cataract Hotel Ballroom in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Standing, from left to right: Louis "Duke" Hurwitz, Louis Koplow (?), Mrs. Archibald Silverman. Seated, from left to right: Ben Margulies and Louis Dworsky.
Created:
1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Two girls standing outside Desnick's Drug store in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Included in the photo, from left to right: Natalie Warshauer (Saxon) and Heidi Sue Applebaum (Gilbert).
Created:
1947
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Group photograph of the North High Wrestling Team in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Top row: Harold Nisfield, Ron Mankoff, Jerry Rudolph, and Howard Silverman. Others pictured include: Lenny Feldman, Marty Bell, Ron Orenstein, Jack Held, and Joe Garber.
Created:
1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Officers and members of the Minneapolis Jewish Young Adult Council in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Seated, from left to right: Charlotte Kenis, Rhoda Niemarck, Dorothy Cohen, Harriet Cohen, Marilyn Mankoff, Sylvia Robins, Claire Cohen, and Ruth Sher. Standing, left to right: Burton Goldstein, Myer Jacobs, Frank Kiperstein, Jerry Schwartz, and Ovadia ...
Created:
1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Street View photograph of Rudolph's Furniture Store in Duluth, Minnesota. This building burned down in 1948 and the store would relocate to 18 N. Lake Ave in Duluth.
Created:
1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Student being counseled by B'nai B'rith synagogue Vocational Guidance Service at the Hillel Foundation (University of Minnesota). Listed on the back in no particular order, (blank) Wasserman and Gerhard Neuback.
Created:
1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of teenagers celebrations New Year's Eve at Maureen Lifson's House. Included in the front row from left to right: Ruth Lurie, Suzie Swiller, Sandra Schwartz, Reva Margolis, Gwensandra Silverman, Joan Berkus, Maureen Lifson, Nat Warschauer. Included in the back row from left to right: Willy Hope, Bobby Bigelow, Larry Beck, Teddy Benowitz,...
Created:
1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A group of University of Minnesota students look at books in a display case while attending Jewish Book Month, hosted by the University of Minnesota chapter of Hillel. The University of Minnesota chapter of Hillel was founded in 1940 to assist Jewish college students away from home.
Created:
1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.