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Northeast Ohio Jewish History is a public Facebook group about Cleveland and Northeast Ohio Jewish history. Facebook users can see all content. Members may post, with post approval, and comment and get notifications of new posts. 

This group aims to:

   • Share what's new, good, or hard to find
      (Includes announcing this website's new pages.)
   • Help 'citizen historians' in their research and
   • Expand the audiences for historical materials.

The group started in December 2017 as Jewish History Hub. We celebrate our birthday on the first night of Hanukkah, for the word means "dedication".

Arnold Berger  Administrator

 


Guidelines for posts

  1. Posts must be relevant, respectful and informative. No politics, no ads.

  2. Event announcements are welcome if relevant and at least a week before the event.

  3. Pictures must be accompanied by a caption plus a credit to the source of the image.

  4. OK to share a relevant post made on another open group. No invitations to join another group.

  5. History research requests are welcome. Share what you are doing and the sources you've tried. For family research questions, we recommend the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland.

  6. Until your post is approved, only you and our administrators can see it.

Northeast Ohio Jewish History Group Picture

About the seven images in the collage

1840 Oldest document. Jews petition for a section of the city's Erie Street Cemetery.
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1894 - Oldest Jewish building. East 55th and Central. Home of Tifereth Israel (The Temple)
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1926 - The Klausner family in Sam & Minnie Klausner's new home in Glenville.
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1938 - Leon Wiesenfeld, Yiddish journalist and community activist.
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1958 Leading rabbis, Israel Porath (Orthodox) and Abba Hillel Silver (Reform), were good friends.
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1965 - 1750 Euclid Avenue, first building owned by our Cleveland Jewish Federation. Demolished December 2015.
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1970s - Solomon's Restaurant and Delicatessen at Cedar Center. Our most visited post to date (5.6K views).

PHOTO CREDITS
1840 petition - scanned in the City Council Archives by Arnold Berger
Willson Avenue Temple - old picture postcard found on eBay
Sam and Minnie Klausner family - from the family, collected by Carol Schonberg
Leon Wiesenfeld - Merging Traditions p 103 (WRHS)
Rabbis Porath and Silver - from Hannah Porath
Federation building at 1750 Euclid Avenue - photo by Lauren Pacini 
Picture postcard in the Walter Leedy Collection in Cleveland Memory at CSU
12/31/2023