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wa00005. Jewish Women

 Record Group
Identifier: wa00005

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

Miriam R. Canter papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1022
Abstract

A Jewish woman who supported local arts and produced cookbooks in Iowa City, IA.

Dates: 1903-2016

Fish Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1023
Abstract

A Sioux City Jewish family that owned and operated the auto repair shop, Ben Fish Tire.

Dates: 1922-2015

Richard Jacobs papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1027
Abstract

Associate Dean of the College of Dentistry and Professor of Orthodontics at the University of Iowa in Iowa City who, as a young Jewish man, escaped the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland.

Dates: 1935-2015

Shaare Zion Synagogue / Mt. Sinai Temple records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1041
Abstract

Records of Sioux City’s Shaare Zion Synagogue, Mt. Sinai Temple, Congregation Beth Shalom, and the Jewish Federation of Sioux City.

Dates: 1901-2015

Oliver Pollak papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1036
Abstract

A collection of cookbooks and documents from Jewish women’s organizations in Iowa.

Dates: 1890 - 2017

Sandra Reuben papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1037
Abstract

Library director who grew up in Forest City, Iowa, the daughter of a Lithuanian immigrant.

Dates: 1900-2000

Miriam Gelfand oral history

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1024
Abstract

Oral history with Miriam Gelfand, a Jewish immigrant from China who also taught as a professor of French and Russian at The University of Iowa from 1962 to 1994.

Dates: 2016

Gusti Kollman papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1030
Abstract

Jewish immigrant who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1939 and settled in Mount Vernon, Iowa

Dates: 1910-2007

Barbara Krigsten papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1031
Abstract

Picture of a Hanukah party in Denisen, Iowa in 1952.

Dates: 1952

David Nadler papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1034
Abstract

Memoir of a Renate Nadler’s experience as a Jewish child in Nazi Germany written by her son, and an account of her son’s visit to her birthplace several decades following World War II.

Dates: 2009-2017

Suzi Kaiman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1028
Abstract

Family- and community-oriented Jewish woman from Sioux City, Iowa.

Dates: 1907-2009

Naomi Braverman Markovitz papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1001
Abstract

Newspaper clippings related to the Bravermans, one of the founding families of the Agudas Achim synagogue in Iowa City, IA.

Dates: 1926-1980

Harris Scheer Berg family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1040
Abstract

Letters, photographs, and papers of an extended Jewish family that emigrated from Russia to Iowa in the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1869-2018

Ruth Lebowich papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1033
Abstract

Sioux City woman whose German Jewish parents emigrated to Sioux City, Iowa, after living in a displaced persons camp following World War II

Dates: 1945-2018

The Greater Des Moines Jewish Press records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1291
Abstract

Organization dedicated to journalistic efforts that promote and support the Jewish community in the greater Des Moines area and beyond.

Dates: 2018 - 2021

Frances "Francie" Hornstein papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1250
Abstract

Co-director of the Feminist Women’s Health Center in Los Angeles, California who specialized in lesbian health care.

Dates: 1972 - 1999

Ohsman-Berg Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1025
Abstract

Two generations of career women and homemakers in a Cedar Rapids family.

Dates: 1900-2018

Ruth Salzmann Becker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0123
Abstract

Nurse and community activist in Iowa City who, as a young Jewish woman, fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to the United States.

Dates: 1858-2012

Marlene Booth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0447
Abstract

Jewish independent filmmaker raised in Des Moines, Iowa.

Dates: 1951- 2009

Fay Avivah Jonas Kaye papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1322
Abstract

Essays about the Beth El Synagogue and the Fort Dodge Jewish community.

Dates: 2022