wa00005. Jewish Women
Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:
Miriam R. Canter papers
A Jewish woman who supported local arts and produced cookbooks in Iowa City, IA.
Fish Family papers
A Sioux City Jewish family that owned and operated the auto repair shop, Ben Fish Tire.
Richard Jacobs papers
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.
Shaare Zion Synagogue / Mt. Sinai Temple records
Records of Sioux City’s Shaare Zion Synagogue, Mt. Sinai Temple, Congregation Beth Shalom, and the Jewish Federation of Sioux City.
Oliver Pollak papers
A collection of cookbooks and documents from Jewish women’s organizations in Iowa.
Sandra Reuben papers
Library director who grew up in Forest City, Iowa, the daughter of a Lithuanian immigrant.
Miriam Gelfand oral history
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.
Gusti Kollman papers
Jewish immigrant who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1939 and settled in Mount Vernon, Iowa
Barbara Krigsten papers
Picture of a Hanukah party in Denisen, Iowa in 1952.
David Nadler papers
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.
Suzi Kaiman Papers
Family- and community-oriented Jewish woman from Sioux City, Iowa.
Naomi Braverman Markovitz papers
Newspaper clippings related to the Bravermans, one of the founding families of the Agudas Achim synagogue in Iowa City, IA.
Harris Scheer Berg family papers
Letters, photographs, and papers of an extended Jewish family that emigrated from Russia to Iowa in the nineteenth century.
Ruth Lebowich papers
Sioux City woman whose German Jewish parents emigrated to Sioux City, Iowa, after living in a displaced persons camp following World War II
The Greater Des Moines Jewish Press records
Organization dedicated to journalistic efforts that promote and support the Jewish community in the greater Des Moines area and beyond.
Frances "Francie" Hornstein papers
Co-director of the Feminist Women’s Health Center in Los Angeles, California who specialized in lesbian health care.
Ohsman-Berg Family Papers
Two generations of career women and homemakers in a Cedar Rapids family.
Ruth Salzmann Becker papers
Nurse and community activist in Iowa City who, as a young Jewish woman, fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to the United States.
Marlene Booth Papers
Jewish independent filmmaker raised in Des Moines, Iowa.
Fay Avivah Jonas Kaye papers
Essays about the Beth El Synagogue and the Fort Dodge Jewish community.