A sukkah decorated on the outside with Talmudic posters is in a grassy area. Description on back of photograph "Me [Naomi Lipsky] (facing camera in middle in pink) explaining Sukkos to a visiting middle school class.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
In this interview, Roz Baker (1923 - ) gives an account of her life as a Jewish native of Minneapolis. She relates her family background which includes an immigration story to the United States from Russia through Cypress in 1915. She describes her childhood growing up Jewish in Minneapolis, relating memories of Labor-Zionist meetings, holiday traditions, school experience, working as a teenager during the Depression and various class distinctions among the larger Jewish community. This interview was conducted by Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest volunteer Ann Schulman in effort to document the stories of Jewish immigration to and community leaders in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
In this interview, Manual (Mandy) Ruder (1914 - ) gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan. Special attention is afforded to his family background, including information about his Romanian and Zionist parents farming in Palestine, their settlement in North Dakota, and eventually settling with his mother in Minneapolis after the tragic death of his father. The focus moves to Ruder's childhood in a Romanian Orthodox community near downtown Minneapolis, roughly during the period of 1910 - 1920, to his education at the University of Minnesota in the 1930s, Navy career, career in American National Bank, and copious family details. This interview was conducted by Dr. Linda Mack Schloff, former director of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, in effort to document the stories of Jewish immigration to and community leaders in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
This sound clip highlights the 90th Anniversary of Pinecreek Church. The Roseau County Historical Society prepared this radio script to share county history through broadcasts on KJ102 FM in Roseau. The topics highlight the history of Roseau County and the people that lived there.
Belle Plaine Episcopal Church with fence, light post, entry. Man and woman standing at fence gate. Facing upper right corner of image black. Mounted on paperboard. Silvery gray tones, visable grain of paper.
A photo collage of the city of Renville churches; including the Catholic church, the Norwegian Lutheran Church, the Methodist Church, and the German Lutheran Church.
Photographic collage of Renville County's Catholic churches. Views include: the altar boys and the rectory, a portrait of Father L. Hart, exterior view of the second St. Patrick's Church in Birch Cooley, exterior view of St. John's Catholic Church in Morton, exterior view of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Franklin.
The advisors listed in the 1938 College Bulletin for the years from 1934 to 1940 are: Francis Gross, chairman and former president of the North American Bank, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Frank Mulcahy, secretary of the Northwestern National Bank and Trust Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Joseph Matt, president of the Wanderer Printing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota; and Edward Callahan (not pictured), member of the Law Office of Smith and Callahan, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Confirmation class including Anna Anderson, Hulda Johnson, Axel Johnson, Ted Anderson, Elof Hammner, the Ekstrom kids (possibly Pastor Ekstrom's children?).
