CHANUKAH 5780 SECTION E PAGE 6 Legacy of Healing: Jewish Leadership in Colorado’s Health Care,” on display through April 19 at History Colorado’s Ballantine Gallery, shows how one community’s war on tuberculosis built a kingdom. The new gallery, dedicated to community storytelling and history, showcases memorabilia from the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society (JCRS), National Jewish Hospital, the Sheltering Home for Jewish Children, Ex-Patients Home, Rose Hospital and more. Among the showstoppers are a Hebrew typewriter from JCRS; a smart outfit worn by Frances Wisebart Jacobs; sunlit faces in search of their next breath on a sanitarium porch; and other historic images. All major Jewish health institutions are represented, but those in the service of alleviating tuberculosis — National Jewish and JCRS — dominate the intimate […]
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