was continuously expanding by establishing synagogues, mikva’ot, educational institutions, and Yiddish theater. A number of prominent Yiddish writers and Jewish intellectuals came to Denver to treat their tuberculosis, such as the poet Yehoash. Between 1900 and 1907, many Jewish immigrants moved directly to Denver due to its burgeoning religious community, and Jewish settlement in the city reached its peak just prior to World War I. Bolstered by the number of tuberculosis patients, the Jewish population of the city reached 15,000 in 1912. In 1913, the Intermountain Jewish News was founded, which today is the largest Jewish paper in Colorado. After running away from home as a teenager, future Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir lived in the West Side of Denver from 1913 to 1914 with her sister, who had moved to the city due to her tuberculosis. It was in Denver that Golda met her future husband, Morris Meyerson (Myerson), and in her autobiography, My Life, she wrote "to the extent that my own future convictions were shaped and given form, and ideas were discarded or accepted by me while I was growing up, those talk-filled nights in Denver played a considerable role." The home she lived in with her sister is now preserved as the Golda Meir House Museum. The Denver community also faced anti-Semitism on multiple occasions in first half of the 20th century. On Christmas Day in 1905, a Jewish immigrant named Jacob Weisskind was out working as a scrapper when he was brutally beaten by a Christian mob "avenging the blood of Christ", and later died of his injuries, in what some have called a lynching. Another Jew working with him was also beaten severely, but survived. Less than two years later, in the midst of the city's newspapers reporting on "anti-Semitic gangs" roaming the West Side, two Jewish immigrants named Tevye (Teve/Tevyah) Bokser and Michael Weissblei (Weisblye/Weisbly) were brutally murdered by two Christian gang members. The perpetrators of these murders received light sentences, and the underlying racial pretext of the killings was discussed in many papers in Denver, and in the Weisskind case, across the country. In the 1920s, the Jewish community also had to contend with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the state, concentrated largely in Denver, and its incredible success in taking over Colorado's political offices at nearly every level: from Denver mayor Ben Stapleton to Governor Clarence Morley, and