Susan Hoffman
Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
320 Elmer L. Anderson Library
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-625-0192
Email: s-hoff@umn.edu
web: http://www.jhsum.org
Iron Range Miscellany Box 1 D02S13CF
0003 Bnai Abraham synagogue, Virginia-minutes ca 1954-73; sisterhood minutes 1948-73. 2 ff.
0004 Bnai Abraham synagogue Constitution and by-laws 1916; minutes 1917-54; Ladies Aid Society account book 1908 1913, 1914-1934. 2 ff.
0005 Bnai Brith chapter of Virginia-Eveleth minutes and papers 1946-50.
0006Hadassah, Virginia. Minutes 1940-1945. certificate of recognition.
0007 Ladies Aid Society minute book, 1929-35 and account book, 1945-1956: 1947 (National) Council of Jewish Women, Virginia.
0008 Papers of the Range Hebrew Cemetary Association Virginia, MN, 1950-1967. Including account books, 1950-1967; Articles of incorporation, 1950; By Laws, ca 1950; Minutes of Planning meeting, 1950; speech re teaching religion to youth, 1950.
0240 Virginia Eveleth Chapter-Hadassah: The collection consists of minutes, 1956-73; dues book, 1967-83; chapter publicity, ca 1970s; and regional meeting publicity, 1954. (portions may be in boxes 104 or 85.
0461 Booklet "Ceremonies of Jewish home and Synagog"; minutes of Virginia/Eveleth NCJW-Hadassah, 1949-56, clippings and reprints relevant to V/E- NCJW-Hadassah; minutes and officer lists from Bnai BrithBialik Lodge #1209, 1950-1986. 4 ff.
0257 "Steps Along the Way: A Walk Through Eighty Something Years of My Life," is the title of memoirs by Kopple Hallock, Iron Range native. Printed in 1989, it is on the (SHL) bookshelf.
0670 “Growing Up Jewish in Virginia, Minnesota,” by Sandy Harris.
Notes
Box 134 (SHL) has 0634: Sapero-Wain families Book. They lived in Chisholm (1900-25); A 90th Birthday tribute to Molly Sapero Fligelman "Our Unsinkable Molly"; marriage certificate; old photos of women, clippings about family members, citizenship papers of Max Wain, 1913.
Box 20 (SHL) has Berwikunken-Lewis Family reunion book, 1983.
Box 72 has Materials concerning the Hibbing chapter of Hadassah, including minutes from 1966-82, a two pp history and miscellaneous new clippings. Also a two-page history of organized Jewish life in Hibbing for the last fifty seven years; photocopies of Boruch Edelstein’s naturalization papers.
