Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society
When the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) opened its doors in September 1904, it had only seven patients housed in white wooden "Tucker" tents. Over the next fifty years, however, the JCRS served over 10,000 patients, more than half of those patients were from New York City. While National Jewish Health was founded earlier to also treat tuberculosis, and both were nondenominational, JCRS was established to serve the West Colfax Jewish community with an Orthodox kitchen as opposed to the more secular National Jewish Health. The campus was also home to the first synagogue in Jefferson County, Colorado. Completed in 1926, the Isaac Solomon Synagogue was the third synagogue on the JCRS campus and was actively used from 1926 until the 1950s. Since 1980, the campus has been on the National Register of Historic Places, though the original application does have several factual errors, such as confusing the 1926 synagogue with its 1911 predecessor.Among the founders of JCRS was Dr. Charles David Spivak, who led the organization from 1904, until his death in 1927. Spivak was a political refugee from Russia (modern-day Ukrain) who attended medical school in Philadelphia before moving to Denver, Colorado. He was the first editor of the Denver Jewish News (now known as the Intermountain Jewish News and the father of H. David Spivak, the first Jewish artist of note in Colorado.
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