A portrait photograph of Rabbi Samuel Deinard. Deinard was Rabbi at Shaari Tov, later known as Temple Israel, and a committed Zionist. He also served as the editor-in chief of the American Jewish World, the Twin's Cities foremost English-language Jewish newspaper; and in the Department of Semitics at the University of Minnesota.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Rabbis Abelson and Aronson lead the Beth El congregation during the years that the congregation was located on Penn Avenue. The photograph with Senator Humphrey was taken at the Penn Avenue building. Aronson especially worked closely with Humphrey, during Humphrey's tenure as Minneapolis mayor, to improve North side inter-community relations during the late 1940s and early 50s.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
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 driving force in the establishment of the regional school district. After 23 years outside Devil's Lake, the Calofs moved to St. Paul in 1917. Rachel begin her autobiography in 1936, which she wrote in longhand. The manuscript was "discovered" in the American Jewish Archives in the early 1990s, and published in 1995 as "Rachel Calof's Story".
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives