At the center of the campus of the Auraria Higher Education Center is an old stone building with Hebrew lettering. It was once the home of Shearith Israel, an independent Orthodox congregation. About a block away, is the Golda Meir House, the place where an Israeli prime minister lived as a girl in 1913-14. The old Auraria neighborhood was once also filled with numerous Jewish residents and businesses run by such prominent Jewish families as the Ebers, the Hyatts, the Groussmans, and the Katzes.
Larry Ambrose and Phil Milstein, visible members of Jewish Denver, were crucial figures in shaping the Auraria campus. Added to all of this, there were once direct links between Auraria Jews and numerous Jewish-owned businesses in old West Denver along Santa Fe Drive. All of this and more, including the connections between Auraria and West Colfax Jewry, will be part of this wide-ranging talk.

Besides being the author of Denver Jewish Cemeteries, Phil Goodstein has written How the West Side Won, a history of Auraria and old West Denver. He treats Jewish West Colfax in his North Side Story. Copies of the books will be available at his talk for a discount with cash purchase.

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