About this Event
Join us for Phil Goodstein's Book Launch: Jewish Cemeteries!
Date: Sunday November 30th
Time: 2pm
Location: The Castle Marne, Race Street, Denver, CO, USA
Come celebrate the release of Phil Goodstein's latest book, exploring the rich history of Jewish cemeteries. Dive into the fascinating stories and traditions that have shaped these sacred grounds. Don't miss this in-person event filled with insights and discussions. See you there!
Cemeteries are as much for the living as the dead. This is a central theme of The Scenic History of Denver Cemeteries, a planned four-volume look at the city’s hallowed grounds. After reviewing how the community’s first burial ground was on what became Cheesman Park, and then going to Fairmount Cemetery in volume two, the city’s leading historian, Phil Goodstein, has turned his attention to the area’s four Jewish final resting places, Emanuel Cemetery, an autonomous section of Fairmount, Mount Nebo Cemetery in old Aurora, Rose Hill Cemetery in Commerce City, and Golden Hill Cemetery at 12000 West Colfax Avenue, a place once known as the final stop on Colfax.
From the time of the Pikes Peak gold rush, Denver Jewish Cemeteries observes, Jews have been part and parcel of the Mile High City. They have participated in all aspects of the community. Besides business leaders there have been labor agitators. Physicians, musicians, restaurateurs, dreamers, schemers, and scoundrels have all been part of the mix. Now the reader can discover who they were.
The volume also looks at cemetery lore. It explains why pebbles are often on Jewish tombstones and the meaning of Hebrew letters and symbols. Jewish Cemeteries looks are divisions within the Jewish community and how burial spots reflect the values of the living. In the process, it connects Jewish Denver with the rest of the city. As such, the book is not only a distinctive history of the necropolises of members of the faith, but it is a history of Jewish Denver and the Mile High City as a whole. It belongs on the shelf of anybody interested in the diversity and unity of the community.
Copies of Jewish Cemeteries are available at better bookstores. For more information, contact Goodstein at 303/333–1095 or [email protected].
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Castle Marne, Race Street, Denver, CO, USA, United States
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