Cleveland Jewish History
 
a new life for The Temple at University Circle - click to learn more   New on these pages:  
The great gift to the Jews of Cleveland
CJN's new Digital Archive
Willet Street, Fir Street and Mayfield Cemeteries
Abba Hillel Silver's funeral and gravesite
Jewish members of Cleveland's City Council
Former B'nai B'rith building on East 55th lost by fire
Ofer Shiff on Abba Hillel Silver
Bernstein's Elbow - documented at last!
The Temple at University Circle starts a new dual life
Brith Emeth and Rabbi Philip Horowitz by Alan Levenson
Abba Hillel Silver  Cleveland's most distinguished Jewish citizen. 
Nate's Tour of Old Jewish Cleveland  by Nate Arnold
Generations  The waves of Jewish immigration as seen by family stories: Simson Thorman from Bavaria in 1837 and Sam and Minnie Klausner, from Tetiev, Ukraine in 1910.
Synagogues  Old and not so old, including The Temple at University Circle
Glenville  Shared memories of what was once Cleveland's largest Jewish neighborhood
How Cleveland helped free Soviet Jews
An illustrated memoir by Louis Rosenblum, with The Elephant in the Room
Cleveland, Jewish Cleveland and American Jewish History on the Web
Links to websites, web pages, documents and images
Cleveland Area Rabbis   A photographic essay by Herbert Ascherman
Institutions, including the Jewish Federation of Cleveland
Where our "Federation" has been for 100 years
Confirmations in Cleveland   Bud Weidenthal shares memories of four generations.
In Pursuit of the Plaque honoring Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple.
More About Zvi Hirsch Masliansky 
We hear from grandchildren of the maggid who inspired Chaim Weizmann and Abba Hillel Silver.