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 2 D02S13CG
0009 Correspondence, minutes, account books of Congregation Agudas Achim, Eveleth, ca 1940-70 2 ff.
0023 B’nai Zion synagogue, Chisholm, the articles of incorporation and deed of sale, 1960. B’nai Zion was founded in 1904 and was torn down ca 1960.
0044 Minute book and account book of the Range Relief Fund of Eveleth, MN, 1915-16, (copy); Eveleth Zionist District,1920 (copy); Also letter from National Chairman of the United Jewish Campaign ; addendum to minutes; letter dated 1983 re people in SD who may or may not be Jewish
0181 Article published in Reform Advocate, Chicago, 1913 (copy) titled 'History of the Jews of the Mesaba Range.'
0265 short history Agudas Achim synagogue, Hibbing by Rabbi Reuben Maier.
0269 List of Jews who lived on Iron Range culled from U.S.1910 census; list of Jews who attended Range colleges before World War ll.
0358 Press family history; Lithuania and the Iron Rang
0375 Clippings about the Abraham Bloomenson foundation (Duluth); Karnenu (JNF) 1975 issue with article about Bloomenson foundation.
0408 Zionist stock shares for land in Palestine, 1933.
0427 Press's reflections on a genealogy trip to Lithuania, 1992 with photos.
0653 1985 calendar with old photos of Hibbing, newsclipping about calendar.
0654 photocopy "31 years of Jewish Life on Iron Range of Northern Minnesota” by Rabbi Samuel Porath, 1938.
0888 Adele Fishman Roth family history, include. copies of clippings and photos re Jewish life in Virginia and Eveleth, wedding photos and "social notes" for Ruth Cohn.
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.
"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.
