A portrait photograph of Rabbi Solomon Silber. Rabbi Silber served as Kenesseth Israel's rabbi from 1902 to 1925. He, and members of his congregation, were instrumental in funding and building the Jewish Family Welfare Board and the Jewish Sheltering Home.
Created:
1910?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Men are seated on one side of a long table for the Passover Seder meal. From the back of the photograph: "Head Table: reading from right to left: Rabbi Nathan Kohler; Rabbi Karl Richter; Chaplain Saul Kraft; Col. N. L. Cote, Commanding Officer; Lt. Col. C. R. Walters, Exec. Officer; Chaplain R. H. P. Ross, Post Chaplain; Chaplain C. W. McGeehon;...
Created:
1943-04-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Rabbi Stacy Offner and a young child hold up the torah during the walk from the St. Paul Jewish Community Center to its new home in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Quetta is the capital and largest city of what is now Baluchistan Province of Pakistan. In 1935 it was a major British cantonment city with 12,000 troops and a total population of around 70,000. At 3:03 AM on May 31st, an earthquake struck Quetta, reducing the city to rubble, destroying towns and villages to the south and leaving 30 to 60 thousa...
Created:
1935
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
Quetta is the capital and largest city of what is now Baluchistan Province of Pakistan. In 1935 it was a major British cantonment city with 12,000 troops and a total population of around 70,000. At 3:03 AM on May 31st, an earthquake struck Quetta, reducing the city to rubble, destroying towns and villages to the south and leaving 30 to 60 thousa...
Created:
1935
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
Photograph of Rachel Calog sitting in a chair. Rachel Bella Calof is the author of "My Story", an autobiographical account to her marriage to Abraham Calof and their efforts to homestead and raise a family on the plains of North Dakota at the turn of the century. Despite desperate hardships, the Calof's raised nine children, and Rachel was a dri...
Created:
1949
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
These records document the YWCA's role as a part of the cooperative effort to provide social services for military personnel and their families, beginning during World War II and continuing through the Korean War and Vietnam War eras. Material in the collection dates from 1941 to 1975; it covers two USO eras: World War II and the immediate postw...
Created:
1944; 1955
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
These records document the YWCA's role as a part of the cooperative effort to provide social services for military personnel and their families, beginning during World War II and continuing through the Korean War and Vietnam War eras. Material in the collection dates from 1941 to 1975; it covers two USO eras: World War II and the immediate postw...
Created:
1963 - 1964
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.