Temple Beth Am photograph collection, 1957-1988
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Overview of the Collection
- Collector
- Temple Beth Am (Seattle, Wash.)
- Title
- Temple Beth Am photograph collection
- Dates
- 1957-1988 (inclusive)19571988
- Quantity
- 40 photographic prints; 14 slides (1 box) ; various sizes
- Collection Number
- PH1089
- Summary
- Photographs of Temple Beth Am, a Reform synagogue serving the north area of Seattle
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries' Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials Curator is required to view original photographs. Contact Special Collections for more information.
- Additional Reference Guides
- Languages
- English
Historical Background
Temple Beth Am is a Reform synagogue serving northeast Seattle. The congregation was founded by a handful of families in the View Ridge neighborhood and held its first service in January 1956. Early rabbis included Army chaplain Joel Messing (1956-57), Robert Zimmerman (1957-58), and Arthur Oles (1958-62). Rabbi Norman Hirsh served the congregation for 33 years (1962-95) and was succeeded by Rabbi Jonathan Singer (1995- ) and associate Rabbi Beth Singer (1997- ). Services were held at Hillel House (January-May 1956) and subsequently at University Unitarian Congregation (1956-65) until the synagogue building was opened in 1965.
Content Description
The collection includes the 1958-1971 confirmation classes, congregational rabbis, and photographs of school and other synagogue activities.
Other Descriptive Information
Forms part of the Washington State Jewish Archives.
Use of the Collection
Alternative Forms Available
View the digital version of the collection
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.
Administrative Information
Return to TopDetailed Description of the Collection
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Temple Beth Am founders
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Description: First Temple Beth Am board, Seattle
Seated (from left): Gerald Cone, Belle Ruth Witkin, Lutz Lobe (president), Rabbi Joseph Messing, Howard Breskin, Harold Thal, Elmer Klein. Standing: Phil Shainman, Seymour Kaplan, Bert Aronsberg. (Board members identified inFamily of Strangers, p.277.)
Dates: circa 1956-1958Container: Box/Folder 1/1, Item 1 -
Description: First Temple Beth Am board, Seattle
Seated (from left): Bert Aronsberg, Lutz Lobe (president), Belle Ruth Witkin, Howard Breskin, Harold Thal. Standing: Bert Robinson, Gerald Cone, Phil Shainman, Rabbi Joseph Messing, Seymour Kaplan, Elmer Klein. (Board members identified inFamily of Strangers, p.277.)
Dates: circa 1956-1958Container: Box/Folder 1/1, Item 2
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Temple Beth Am rabbis
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Description: Major Joseph Messing, rabbi in Army uniform with Jewish Chaplain insignia pins on lapelDates: circa 1956-1957Container: Box/Folder 1/2, Item 3
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Description: Major Joseph Messing, rabbi in Army dress uniform with Jewish Chaplain insignia pins on lapel, U.S. Army Chaplain School, Fort Slocum, New YorkSaul Fitzgerald, Fort Slocum, New York (photographer)Dates: October 2, 1957Container: Box/Folder 1/2, Item 4
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Description: Rabbi Robert L. ZimmermanDates: circa 1957Container: Box/Folder 1/2, Item 5
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Temple Beth Am confirmation classes
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Description: Temple Beth Am confirmation class, SeattleBill Stephens, Seattle (photographer)
In accompanying materials, confirmands are listed alphabetically as Jacquelyn Barish, Paul Hecker, Tom Lobe, Nancy Mano, Larry Michaelson, Fredrica Pocher, Meyer Rashkov, Franklin Reifler, Joyce Segelbaum, and Barbara Unkeles, with Rabbi Robert Zimmerman.
Dates: 1958Container: Box/Folder 1/3, Item 6 -
Description: Congregants at Temple Beth Am confirmation services held at Unitarian Church, Seattle, with Rabbi Robert L. Zimmerman at arkBill Stephens, Seattle (photographer)Dates: 1958Container: Box/Folder 1/3, Item 7
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Description: Congregants at Temple Beth Am confirmation services held at Unitarian Church, Seattle, with Rabbi Robert L. Zimmerman, Lutz Lobe, and Tom Lobe at arkBill Stephens, Seattle (photographer)Dates: 1958Container: Box/Folder 1/3, Item 8
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Description: Temple Beth Am confirmation class, SeattleBill Stephens, Seattle (photographer)
In accompanying materials, confirmands are listed alphabetically as Carol Bolotin, Sherry Cohen, Robert Kaplan, Barbara Katz, Marsha Klinger, Eileen Michele Levitin, Howard Lowen, Bobbie Jean Presender, Stephanie Shaffer, Paul Weiss, and Steven Weiss.
Dates: June 7, 1959Container: Box/Folder 1/3, Item 9 -
Description: Temple Beth Am confirmation class, Seattle
(L to R) Steven Weiss, Bob Kaplan, Howard Lowen, Risha Bay.
Dates: 1959Container: Box/Folder 1/3, Item 10 -
Description: Temple Beth Am confirmation class, SeattleBill Stephens, Seattle (photographer)
In accompanying materials, confirmands are listed alphabetically as Douglas Arensberg, Sharon Asia, Judy Bolotin, Stephen Danz, Patty Gorlick, Edward Hartstein, Gail Hecker, Gerald Katz, Jacqueline Levitin, Anne Reifler, Susan Schrieber, Judy Spear, and Craig Sternberg, with Rabbi Arthur Oles.
Dates: June 5, 1960Container: Box/Folder 1/3, Item 11 -
Description: Temple Beth Am confirmation class, Seattle
In accompanying materials, confirmands are listed alphabetically as Gary Arthur Cone, Judith Sarah Feinberg, Kathi Kraus, Dennis J. Loeb, Robert Michael Pruzan, Clifford Stein, Wendy Lou Trotsky, and Sheryl Marie Witkin, with Rabbi Arthur Oles.
Dates: May 21, 1961Container: Box/Folder 1/3, Item 12 -
Description: Temple Beth Am confirmation class, Seattle
In accompanying materials, confirmands are listed alphabetically as Joan Eisenhardt, Arlene Glickman, Kalman Hahn, Susan Hartstein, Marlene Litchman, Janice Lowen, Susan Metzon, Miriam Oles, Marguerite Rosenberg, Judy Vleeschhouwer, Sidney Weinstein, Margo Weiss, and Vivian Zollshan, with Rabbi Arthur Oles.
Dates: June 8, 1962Container: Box/Folder 1/3, Item 13 -
Description: Temple Beth Am confirmation class, SeattleBill Stephens, Seattle (photographer)
In accompanying materials, confirmands are listed as (L to R): Jackie Zollshan, Harriett Spear, Judy Motulsky, David Docter, John Benditt, Rabbi Norman Hirsh, Jim Arensberg, Len Schrieber, Kenny Broches, Ron Butler, Bruce Sternberg, and Jim Lobe.
Dates: 1963Container: Box/Folder 1/3, Item 14 -
Description: Temple Beth Am confirmation class, SeattleBill Stephens, Seattle (photographer)
In accompanying materials, confirmands are listed alphabetically as Ann Kogan, Linda Cheryl Michelson, Richard Alan Michelson, Marvin Lloyd Rosenberg Jr., and Jana Lee Silverman, with Rabbi Norman Hirsh.
Dates: 1964Container: Box/Folder 1/3, Item 15 -
Description: Temple Beth Am confirmation class, SeattleBill Stephens, Seattle (photographer)
In accompanying materials, confirmands are listed alphabetically as Linda S. Berson, Katherine J. Cooper, Michael S. Dash, Rachel A. Dickerson, Ted G. Eisenhardt, Michael R. Gorlick, Tim C. Hirschstein, Stephanie R. Miller, Eunice Z. Rosenperl, Richard L. Shurman, Jonathan W. R. Stein, David C. Utevsky, Amy L. Vernon, Marsha K. Weinstein, Martha K. Weiss, and Ileen S. Wilets, with Rabbi Norman Hirsh.
Dates: 1965Container: Box/Folder 1/4, Item 16 -
Description: Temple Beth Am confirmation class, SeattleBill Stephens, Seattle (photographer)
In accompanying materials, confirmands are listed alphabetically as Alan Paul Benditt, Cheryl Diane Biback, Charles F. Broches, Stephen F. Cohen, Paula G. Frankel, Marilyn Freidenrich, Miriam E. Handlin, Jane Ruth Kaplan, Deborah Jane Kogan, Miriam Naomi Mayer, Moss Patashnik, Peter S. Rabinovitch, Ruth A. Rabinovitch, Jacqueline Jo Ruben, Susan M. Silverman, Deborah Kate Stein, Sandy R. Stein, Clifford Ross Sullam, Marcia S. Thal, and Jerry Wallace, with Rabbi Norman Hirsh.
Dates: 1966Container: Box/Folder 1/4, Item 17 -
Description: Temple Beth Am confirmation class, SeattleBill Stephens, Seattle (photographer)
Front row: Gail Marie Cohen, Zoe Eliot Baird, Elizabeth Dash. Middle row: Alan James Shurman, Dennis Alan Sidell, Jonathan Gavril Docter, Larry Frank Blustein. Back row: Rabbi Norman Hirsh, Steven Henry Butler, Jeffrey Kenneth Frumkin, Keith Edward Flick.
Dates: 1967Container: Box/Folder 1/4, Item 18 -
Description: Temple Beth Am confirmation class, Seattle
Front row: Rabbi Norman Hirsh, Cassie Benezra, Stephen M. Laboff, Deborah Lynn Abramson, Oren Patashnik, Marilyn Diane Broches. Back row: Bert Spencer Sullam, Eli Mayer, David Maxwell Kaplan, Joel N. Bodansky, Ethan Patashnik.
Dates: 1970Container: Box/Folder 1/4, Item 19 -
Description: Temple Beth Am confirmation class, SeattleDates: circa 1971Container: Box/Folder 1/4, Item 20
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Temple Beth Am religious school
Items 27-40 are slides.
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Description: Edith Patashnik and children at Temple Beth Am nursery and religious school, held at View Ridge SchoolDates: circa 1959Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Item 21
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Description: Children during snack time at Temple Beth Am nursery and religious school at View Ridge SchoolDates: circa 1959Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Item 22-23
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Dates: circa 1959Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Item 24
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Description: Musical performance at assembly session, Temple Beth Am nursery and religious school at View Ridge SchoolDates: circa 1959Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Item 25
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Description: Rabbi Norman Hirsh and kindergarten children in Hirsh's office, with Hirsh eating challah baked by the childrenDates: Spring 1988Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Item 26
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Dates: circa 1980s-1990sContainer: Box/Folder 1/6, Item 27
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Dates: circa 1980s-1990sContainer: Box/Folder 1/6, Item 28
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Description: Rabbi Norman Hirsh and students in sanctuaryDates: circa 1980s-1990sContainer: Box/Folder 1/6, Item 29
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Dates: circa 1980s-1990sContainer: Box/Folder 1/6, Item 30
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Description: Children and adults in synagogue libraryDates: circa 1980s-1990sContainer: Box/Folder 1/6, Item 31
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Description: Young boy at blackboard, learning Hebrew alphabetDates: circa 1980s-1990sContainer: Box/Folder 1/6, Item 32
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Description: Young boy looking at Torah scroll in arkDates: circa 1980s-1990sContainer: Box/Folder 1/6, Item 33
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Description: Children and older man seated in classroomDates: circa 1980s-1990sContainer: Box/Folder 1/6, Item 34
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Description: Students and woman teacher in classroomDates: circa 1980s-1990sContainer: Box/Folder 1/6, Item 35
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Description: Man seated at desk with children in classroomDates: circa 1980s-1990sContainer: Box/Folder 1/6, Item 36
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Description: Three young adults seated at desk during bake saleDates: circa 1980s-1990sContainer: Box/Folder 1/6, Item 37
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Dates: circa 1980s-1990sContainer: Box/Folder 1/6, Item 38
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Description: Building exteriorDates: circa 1980s-1990sContainer: Box/Folder 1/6, Item 39-40
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Temple Beth Am Torah scroll
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Description: Rabbi Norman Hirsh holding Torah scrollDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 1/7, Item 41
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Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 1/7, Item 42
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Description: Closeup of Torah coverDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 1/7, Item 43-44
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Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 1/7, Item 45
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Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 1/7, Item 46
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Temple Beth Am congregational activities
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Dates: December 1987Container: Box/Folder 1/7, Item 47
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Description: People at Temple Beth Am during eventDates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 1/7, Item 48-54
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Confirmation (Jewish rite)--Washington (State)--Seattle--Photographs
- Jewish children--Washington (State)--Seattle--Photographs
- Jews--Washington (State)--Seattle--Photographs
- Rabbis--Washington (State)--Seattle--Photographs
- Torah scrolls--Photographs
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Corporate Names
- Temple Beth Am (Seattle, Wash.)--Photographs
Other Creators
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Corporate Names
- Washington State Jewish Historical Society (collector)
