Beth HaTephila Congregation

Beth HaTephila Congregation
Photographs from Original Donation
Box	Folder	Item	Description	Thumbnail
P79.13.01	1	beth_0001	Rabbi Unger and Joseph Dave
		beth_0002	Congregation members seated at tables Juanita Wilson, photographer.
		beth_0003	11 Children at a Purim party.
		beth_0005	Presentation of award to Lou Pollock (cntr.) by Rabbi Unger (rt.) for the Lou Pollock Memorial Park, 1949, with Rabbi from Asheville's Beth Israel Synagogue (conservative) (lft.). Geraldine Immel, photographer.
		beth_0008	Temple altar (bimah), Congregation Beth HaTephila. Geraldine Immel, photographer.
		beth_0009	This item is the first and only digitized image of a series of blackface entertainment photographs. Juanita Wilson, photographer.
		beth_0011	Dinner party - Battery Park Hotel ball room Juanita Wilson, photographer. Click to view an interactive image, giving a detailed, but only partially complete seating chart.
		beth_0012	Congregation members seated in old Jewish Community Center. Ballroom Howard Studio, 55 1/2 Haywood, Asheville, NC.
		beth_0043	Event for dedication of new temple building, August 1949. Lft., Rabbi Unger, middle, Dr. Julian Morgenstern, former president of Hebrew Union College, 1922-1947, rt., Rabbi Rypins Geraldine Immel, photographer.
		beth_0044	Rabbi Rypins of Greensboro, NC. Geraldine Immel, photographer.
		beth_0045	Event for dedication of new temple building, August 1949. Lft., Rabbi Rypins, middle, Dr. Julian Morgenstern, former president of Hebrew Union College, 1922-1947, rt., Rabbi Unger. Perhaps also a part of the Jewish holiday, Simchat Torah. Geraldine Immel, photographer.
		beth_0046	Rabbi Bour Geraldine Immel, photographer.
		beth_0047	Radio broadcast at Jewish Community Center, event unknown. Howard Studio, 55 1/2 Haywood, Asheville, NC.
		beth_0048	Gustav Lichtenfel Geraldine Immel, photographer.
		beth_0050	Bar Mitzvah cake, location unknown
		beth_0056	Ken Dave and Steve Dave, twins, Bar Mitzvah, 1957 Juanita Wilson, photographer.
		beth_0059	Presumably part of the dedication ceremony of Beth haTephila in 1948. Juanita Wilson, photographer.
		beth_0060	Confirmation class with Rabbi Stan Funston
		beth_0061	Stanley Frumkin, President Beth-Ha-Tephila, 1950s
		beth_0062	Confirmation class with Rabbi Unger. ?, Ken Haller, Hyman Dave, President of Congregation, ?, Rabbi Unger, David Levitch, Francis Lichtenfels, c. 1959
		beth_0063	Steve and Ken Dave twins Bar Mitzvah, 1957, with Rabbi Unger Juanita Wilson, photographer.
		beth_0064	Confirmation class, with Temple President, Alfred Lichtenfels, Arthur Sandman, Roz Cooley, Lynn Sollod, Rhonda Feldman andRabbi Unger (far rt.), c. 1955 R.P. Putnam, photographer.
		beth_0065	Confirmation class with Temple President Alfred Lichtenfelds (left.), Toni Schulman, Bennett Kolman, Susan Blomberg, and Rabbi Unger, (rt.), c. 1956. R.P. Putnam, photographer.
		beth_0066	Confirmation class with Temple President, Harry Blomberg, (lft.), Ellen Dave, Sydney Levitch, Barbara Feldman, Susan Gumpert, Carol Ann Lichtenfels, Peggy Bauer and Rabbi Unger, ( far rt.), 1957 Juanita Wilson, photographer.
		beth_0067	Confirmation class with Temple President Harry Blomberg (lft.), Linda Rifkin, Justine Lowenberg and Rabbi Unger, (rt.), c.1954 R.P. Putnam, photographer.
		beth_0069	Perhaps interior of the Spruce St. synagogue. View of bimah
		beth_0073	Confirmation class with Rabbi Unger on left and Temple President Stan Frumkin on right.
		beth_0074	Confirmation Class of 1963 First row: Terri Cohn, Estelle Wolf, Barbara Cooley, Leslie Levitch, Paul Weinberg, Stanley Frumkin Back row: Rabbi Unger, Jack Rosenstein, Ellen Resnikoff (Carr), Barry Schochet, Patsy Lichtenfels (DeShields), Roslyn Grand
		beth_0079	Confirmation class: (bottom row) Ron Raisen, Susannah Witten, Jane Rocamora, Debbie Boniske, Robin Patterson, ? (back row) Kerry Friedman, Bill Chicurel, Steve Jacobs, Bob Kaghan, 1968
		beth_0084	November 1963. Earl Schrier, Temple President; Rabbi Bloom ; Rabbi Emeritus Sidney Unger ; ? ; ? Charles S. Roth, photographer.
		beth_0085	Temple Beth HaTephila religious school building
		beth_0086	Rabbi Unger with Mickey Schandler at far right.
		beth_0087	Rabbi Unger with Mrs. Evelyn Unger to his rt. Geraldine Immel, photographer.
		beth_0088	A parent/student gathering at Unger Hall depicting the members looking at old religious school classrooms that predated the religious school building built in the early 1960s.
		beth_0090	Ladies in the temple kitchen. Geraldine Immel, photographer.
		beth_0091	Rabbi Unger delivering an address over the WNCA -- Western North Carolina Alliance -- radio network. Photograph by Howard Studios in Asheville, NC.
		beth_0094	Rabbi Bloom and Rabbi Unger with a Sunday School class at Sukkot under the sukkah in the Sanctuary. Left to right: Front row: Drew Barton, David Sellinger, Barbara Shoenburg, Jill Boniske (in back) Shelley Cohen (with fur hat), Hermene Rocomora (back) Jeanie Riesenberg, David Friedman, Joyce Patterson (back), Tracy Kahn, Gayle Feldman; Rabbi Bloom, Rabbi Unger. Click to view interactive image, detailing who's-who.
		beth_0096	Beth HaTephila Brotherhood gathering in 1956. Carl Brody, president. Rabbi Unger is at the far right of the photograph. June Glenn, Jr., staff photographer at the Asheville Citizen-Times
		beth_0097	Rabbi Sidney Unger and Mrs. Evelyn Unger George Frederick Thorpe, photographer.
		beth_0100	Rabbi Unger, "Uncle Gus" Gustav Lichtenfels, ? , holding three of the Temple's Torah scrolls. Geraldine Immel, photographer.
		beth_0101	Event for dedication of new temple building, August 1949. At bimah, Dr. Julian Morgenstern, former president of Hebrew Union College, 1922-1947. Geraldine Immel, photographer.
		beth_0102	Inside Temple Beth HaTephila, c. 1948.
		beth_0103	Outside Temple Beth HaTephila.
		beth_0106	Raking view of the temple built by the Six Associates architectural firm in the spring of 1947.
		beth_0109	Construction on the temple was completed in 1948. Architectural renderings and blueprints can be found here.
		beth_0110	View of altar, or bimah.
		beth_0115	Temple Beth HaTephila, ten years after dedication.
		beth_0120	Photographs taken the dedication ceremony of the temple in 1948. Pictured: "Frances Lichtenfels. Youngest member in religious school" and "Mrs. E. Stern. Oldest living member of the congregation"
		beth_0121	Photographs taken the dedication ceremony of the temple in 1948.
		beth_0122	Photographs taken the dedication ceremony of the temple in 1948.
		beth_0123	During the Religious School Dedication in 1959.
		beth_0124	An address given by an unknown speaker at the "Old Grove House."
		beth_0125	Photographs taken the dedication ceremony of the temple in 1948.
		beth_0127	Stuart Witten with Rabbi Unger at Witten's Bar Mitzvah n.d. Laurence Anning, photographer.
		beth_0128	Stuart Witten with Rabbi Unger at Witten's Bar Mitzvah n.d. Laurence Anning, photographer.
M79.13.04	30	beth_0180	Photograph from a newspaper depicting some ladies from Beth HaTephila's Sisterhood. The Sisterhood hosted a New Year's Eve Ball annually; in 1957, it was at the George Vanderbilt Hotel . L to R: Mrs. Joseph Sternberg, Mrs. Norman (Phyllis) Sultan, Mrs. Ben Shulimson, Mrs. Alfred Lichtenfels and Mrs. Leon Feldman.