GENERAL SUPPORT

The Cleveland Jewish News has several times reported on our work. We use its Archives, which went online in 2010, almost daily. Thanks to former editors  Michael Bennett and Cynthia Dettelbach and current Managing Editor Bob Jacob, and present and former staff members including Jennifer Daddario, Arlene Fine, Lila Hanft, Marilyn Karfeld, Margi Herwald Zitelli, plus consultants/columnists Susan Rzepka and Violet Spevack.

Until its sad closing in August 2014 the Aaron Garber Library was very helpful. Thanks to Jean Lettofsky and Ilka Gordon.

We often benefit from the resources at the Jewish Archives at the Western Reserve Historical Society and the help and encouragement of Sean Martin PhD, Associate Curator for Jewish History, Ann Sindelar, the Reference Supervisor and Vicki Catozza and others at the reference desk. The archives would not be there without the vision of the late Judah Rubenstein and the financial support of the Gries and Rather families.

John Grabowski PhD of CWRU and WRHS has been helpful in ways direct and indirect - the indirect help being the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History that he helped create years ago. It was a pioneering web history project and a much-used resource.

Nate Arnold and Jeffrey Morris are today's most knowledgeable and helpful lay historians of the Cleveland Jewish experience. They are my "go to" guys for questions and feedback. Some of our conversations are classic. A recent example: I asked about the site of an old shul. Jeff told me when the deed had been recorded. Nate then added "The land had been owned by the president's brother-in-law."

Bill Barrow, CSU's Special Collections Librarian, has been helpful in answering questions, growing the Cleveland Memory Project, bringing together web historians to share ideas, web publishing Alan Peskin's "This Tempting Freedom" and the Jeffrey Morris treasure "Haymarket to the Heights."

Mike Baron, who loves history. Through his volunteer efforts leading Teaching Cleveland he does so much to bring history to students, school teachers and the public. As a friend and colleague, he gives me encouragement, helpful criticism and insight.

Myra Shays, my twin sister, who has always been available for the final editing of pages. She can spot an extra comma or misused word all the way from Providence, RI.