Educational Alliance history

She writes the poem for the Alliance’s 1895 Fair Souvenir Book.

By 1903, its Children’s Theater performances (associated with Mark Twain) were justly famous.

In 1907, Mark Twain described his understanding of Alliance’s children’s programs:

But anti-Semitism, including a famous incident in 1908 in which downtown Jews were accused by New York’s police commissioner as being responsible for 50 percent of its crime, was a real issue.

Its initially hard-won cultural flexibility has helped give it the ability to focus on varying neighborhood needs even as the neighborhood has changed. It was founded in what is now a rapidly changing neighborhood which once all but defined European immigration as it became the densest urban site in the world by 1911.

The Congregation Hebrew Educational Alliance was formed in 1928 with the merger of the Denver Hebrew Institute and the Beth David Sisterhood.

On October 25, 1932, HEA leadership welcomed newly ordained Rabbi Manuel Laderman to the institution, who was determined to transform the HEA into a synagogue, not only a religious school.

[v] Historian Elizabeth Israels Perry quotes from the novels of Joseph Golomb: “1935 publication of Joseph Golomb novel Unquiet about resenting Edgies uptown attitude but benefitting from it.

In taking on these programs, the Educational Alliance immediately could provide classes to teach English, with their own school libraries, religious instruction and vocational training allowing it to expand into other activities even as it relied on the HFSA’s prior services (Berkowitz 1964).

HEA Talmud Torah Dinner October 1967 featuring Jan Pierce

Upon Rabbi Laderman's retirement in 1979, Rabbi Daniel Goldberger assumed the leadership of the Alliance.

Compulsory schooling could be seen by legislatures as solving two problems at once: the evils of child labor and the dangers of alien culture and religion.” (5) (Lingwall 2010)