Dr. Charles Spivak Values Codes I – H – E – L – P Chaim Spivakofski was born in 1861, in the village of Krementschug on the Dnieper River in the Russian Ukraine. His parents, Samuel and Deborah Spivakofski, gave their only child a good secular,
Read more →Temple Israel of Leadville, Colorado Leadville, Colorado, originally known as Oro City, is located West of Denver at an elevation of 10,152 feet above sea level – making it extremely difficult to bake a good challah. From the beginning of Leadville’s boom days in the 1870,
Read more →The Shwayder Family Values Codes I – H – E – L – P Isaac Shwayer was born in 1855 in Poland. He immigrated to England and studied to be a cantor and rabbi. In Manchester, he met and, after a two year courtship, married
Read more →Otto Mears Values Codes I- E – L Otto Mears was born in Kurland, Russia in 1840, the son of a Jewish Englishman and a Jewish Russian woman. His parents died when he was very young, so he was passed between a series of family members
Read more →Frances Wisebart Jacobs Values Codes I – E – L – P In the golden dome of Colorado’s state capital building are 16 stained glass windows, each a portrait of a prominent pioneer. One woman was chosen for this select group –a Jewish woman — Frances Wisebart Jacobs,
Read more →Dr. John Elsner Values Codes H – I – E – L – P John Elsner was born in Vienna in 1844, the son of Leopold David Elsner. The Elsners came to America from Preesburg, (Bratislava) on the Danube River. Leopold Elsner became a leader in
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