This ribbon cutting at the first Hillel House took place in 1944. Hillel House serves Jewish students attending the University of Minnesota. From the turn of the century through the early 1940s, Jewish student organizations did not have a permanent place to meet. Hillel was constructed with support from the national B'nai Brith organization and ...
Created:
1944
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Four grammar-school children, each with small Burroughs "Numberaid," a modified Abacus. The four children are seated at a curved table on a raised platform. A large display version of the Numberaid is set at the end of the table. Name cards are placed on the floor in front of each child.
Created:
1955?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Five grammar-school students seated at a table on a raised platform, each working with a Burroughs calculating machine. Name cards are set in front of each child. The three girls students are wearing identical uniforms : the two boys are wearing sport coats. Two adults and students are visible in the background.
Created:
1955?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
A large 6th grade classroom with approximately forty students using the Burroughs "Instructor" Adding machines and calculators. In the middle-ground teacher stands behind student as he works.
Created:
1955?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
An eight grade classroom with approximately forty students seated at tables or desks, each equipped with a Burroughs calculating machine. A Reverend Johnson and Sister Lillian are looking over the shoulders of students using the machines as a math tool.
Created:
1955?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Three quarter view from the right side of a Style No. 3 electric adding machine on a stand. Face plate of the machine reads: Burroughs /Style No. 3 / BAM Co. Model No. 82 [Burroughs Adding Machine Company]. Its serial number is 26459, which indicates that the machine was manufactured between 1904 and 1906.
Created:
1911
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
A Style No. 3 adding machine on Satellite stand, manufactured by Adjustable Table Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan. The stand is cast iron with ogee-curved legs and a combination of rubber stoppers and wheels at the feet. The stand adjusts via a large screw, similar to a piano stool.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Style No. 3 machine on a stand. The serial number is: 10925, which indicates that the machine was manufactured between 1900 and 1903. A small sign reading "This machine has just completed its 35th year of active service in our Bank. It was installed April 7-1902 and was the first machine sold in Crawford County. H. E. Cook, President" rests on t...
Created:
1937
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Three quarter view from the front and right sides, of a manual Style No. 4 adding machine. Machine is placed on a wooden platform set on carpeting. The machine's serial number is 6099, which indicates it was manufactured between 1898 and 1903.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
View of the front exterior of Swatez Dry Goods Store, which was part of the vibrant business community that served the North Side neighborhood during it's heyday from the 1920s through the 1950s. The store was at the corner of 6th Street and Girard Avenue North, and sold clothes, shoes and housewares.
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Sylvia Borken stands at the produce counter of Knox Market, which was located at Knox and Plymouth Avenues in Minneapolis. Many small Jewish family-owned and run grocery stored served the North Side neighborhood. Small business ownership was an avenue to success that was open to the earliest group of Jewish immigrants.
Created:
1950
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
View showing the front exterior of the Synagogue Kenesseth Israel. Kenesseth Israel was formed sometime in the late 19th century from the combined congregations of Ohel Jacob and Beth Midrash Hagodol on Minneapolis's North Side. The congregation was Orthodox, active, and engaging of newly arrived immigrants, providing them with medical care and ...
Created:
1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Many graduates of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah stayed together socially after their Hebrew instruction was complete. Through participation in sports, men built social networks that served them in business and community activities. Activities were paid for jointly by individuals and community organizations, which encouraged people to join by reli...
Created:
1920
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Student award winners (left to right): Arnold Lifson, Joseph Brooks Memorial Award Lorraine Phillips, Hannah Goldblum Prize Harriet Lifson, Nathan Weisberg Prize.
Created:
1938-04-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Choir members - Left to right, first row: Steven Kaplan, Joy Gordon, Rochelle Ackerman, Sharon Knight, Elaine Katz, David King, Annette Ressen, Elissa Heilicher, Charlotte Hechter and Emanuel Kopstein; second row: Fred Silvers, Herbert Weisberg, Carolyn Figerman, Larry Colman, Sheldon Evidon, David Brudnoy, Daniel Ziff, Barry Friedman, Gayle Fra...
Created:
1953
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Dr. George Gordon, founder and driving force behind the Minneapolis Talmud Torah is in the center, front row. Dr. Gordon introduced modern teaching methods, grades, and a rigorous curriculum to Hebrew instruction, and remained administratively independent of any religious congregation. High school classes were the second level of instruction: st...
Created:
1941-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
