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INTRODUCTION
Home page
What's New
What's Not So New
Site Map (this page)
About This Website
Meet the Editor - Arnold Berger
How This Website Evolved  
Contributors Privacy Policy
Fair Use Notice Help Page
Contact Us Jewish History Hub  
   
HISTORY RESOURCES
Resources main page
Jewish History Links
  • Cleveland Jewish History Resources
    (includes "This Tempting Freedom" by Allan Peskin)
         ● Cleveland (2006 Encyclopaedia Judaica)
 
       ● Jeffrey Morris synagogue history collection
         ● Paul Klein's index of Jewish biographies 
         ● The Jewish Society Books 1915-25    
       
 ● The 1924-25 Blue Book   
        
Cleveland Jewish History Sources  new
         
  the 16,000 index cards

  •
Virtual History of Cleveland Jewish Organizations
 
American Jewish History Resources
  • Virtual Treasures
    
  • Trefa Dinner menu
  • A 1920 directory of Jewish Cleveland
  • The Cleveland Jewish News Digital Archive
  • A Stitch in Time: the Cleveland garment industry

General History Links
  • Other Cleveland History Websites
  • Virtual History of Cleveland Cultural Organizations
 

SYNAGOGUES
Synagogues main page

Old still-standing Synagogues

Leonard Case's great gift to Cleveland's Jews
  • CJN Clipping
  • Deed to Israelitic Society

Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple
  • Eagle Street Synagogue - first synagogue building
 
Dedication of the Eagle Street Synagogue,1846  
  • 1886 Laying cornerstone Scovill Avenue Temple

  • Eagle Street Synagogue building around 1928
  • In Pursuit of the Eagle Street Synagogue Plaque
  ● The Central Market Planter
  • Euclid Avenue Temple
 
Euclid Avenue Temple Tiffany Mosaic
  • Euclid Avenue Temple's Tiffany Windows

The Temple - Tifereth Israel
  • Tifereth Israel

  • The Willson Avenue Temple (1894)  new
  • The Temple at University Circle
  • The Temple at University Circle starts a new life
  • The Yizkor plaque at the Maltz Center

B'nai Jeshurun congregation 150 years 
B'nai Jeshurun 150 year timeline 
B'nai Jeshurun congregation 140 years 
  ● Banner 1  1866 to 1920
  ● Banner 2  1920 to 1966
  ● Banner 3  1966 to 1996
  ● Banner 4  1996 to present
The CJN B'nai Jeshurun Timeline 

Congregation Brith Emeth 
and Rabbi Philip Horowitz by Alan Levenson

Cleveland Jewish Center (Park Synagogue) 
- Mixed Seating dispute of the 1920s  new 

Chibas Jerusalem Synagogue

The West Side Synagogues    new

GENERATIONS
Main page

Simpson Thorman, first Jewish settler
  • Simpson Thorman
  • His daughter Lizzie Thorman Hays
  • Her daughter Rolinda Hays Joseph
  • Her son Ralph S Joseph
  • His daughter Martha J Joseph

The Alsbacher Document, May 1839 
  • Moses Alsbacher and his descendants
 Graves of Moses Alsbacher and descendants 
 
Larger images of the three moved headstones 
  • Abe Nebel, who found the document

Jewish Cemetery in Unsleben Bavaria
Connecting with The Lost Jews of Unslebe new

Jewish Cleveland before the Civil War
by Schwartz and Lasky
Pages 1 - 15    
Pages 16 - end 
Appendix introduction 
• Appendix - list of 850 antebellum Jewish residents 
   A-C   D-F   G-I   J-L
  M-R   S-U   V-Z


Sam and Minnie Klausner, from Tetiev, Ukraine, 1910
 
Introduction
  The Pale of Settlement
  • From Russia to Cleveland
      • Tetiev Today by Fred Livingstone 

  • Sam and Minnie's Life in Cleveland
  •
Sam and Minnie's Family in 1926
  • Klausner Cooperage
  • Sam and Minnie's Children
  •
Mary Klausner and Issie Klotzman
  • Fred Klotzman: Mary and Issie's Son
  • A Family Scrapbook
  • Family Reunions
  • Epilogue
  • Postscript: Lisa Klausner Moves Home
  • Passenger Lists (Ship Manifests)
 
     • 1910 Minnie and children 
       • 1910 Minnie and children page 2
       • 1907 Issie Klotzman
  • US Census Forms
      • 1910 Issie Klotzman
      • 1920 Sam and Minnie 
      • 1920 Sam and Minnie's children
      • 1930 Sam and Minnie
  •
Mary Klausner and Issie Klotzman Marriage Record
  • Mary Klausner Klotzman's Letter
  • Klausner Cooperage Newspaper Story
  • Klausner Family Tree

INSTITUTIONS
Institutions main page
Cemeteries
  • 1840 petition for space in the city cemetery
 
  •
Willet Street Cemetery 
  • Fir Street Cemetery
  • Mayfield Cemetery
       Mayfield Cemetery deeds
  •
United Jewish Cemeteries 
  • Cleveland's first Jewish burial - Kanweiler    new
Bellefaire - Jewish Children's Bureau
  • Bellefaire
  • Memorial Tablets at the Orphan Asylum    
new
  • Inside Looking Out
     The Jewish Orphan Asylum by Gary Polster
B'nai B'rith
  • East 55th Street building and its loss by fire in 2010
Cleveland's Holocaust Memorial
  • Large image of the memorial
Jewish Federation of Cleveland
  • Introduction
  • Jewish Community Council 
  • Names and Logos over the years 
 
New logo and its 2017 improvement 
  • Locations over the years
  •
First eight homes, starting in 1903
  • The ninth decision, made in 1963
  • Moving east: a chronology 2007 - 2010

  • The tenth decision, in September 2008  
  • Old building demolished, December 2015 

Jewish Scene broadcasts (1978-2000)
Aaron Garber Library 
●  Virtual Tour
●  History
●  Aaron Garber Obituary
●  Website
Hebrew Free Loan Association   
Jewish Carpenters Union and Carpenters Hall   

PEOPLE
People index page

"Czar" Harry Bernstein
 • 1899 - Jewish Leaders fight for political reform
 • Bernstein's Elbow
 • Rise and Fall of Czar Bernstein (1907)

Cleveland's CCAR presidents

Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver by Arnold Berger

Welcome page
Home page
About this Site
  • Introduction — how this site started
  • What's New and What's coming
  • Site Guide — how we present information
  • Permissions - Privacy statement
  • Recollections — webkeeper's recollections
Youth
  • Maps
  • 1910 census record
Wheeling West Virginia years
  • From HUC to Wheeling
  • Wheeling 1915-17
  • From Wheeling to Cleveland
  • Resignation Letter
The Temple - Tifereth Israel in Cleveland
Zionism Ascent to leadership, success and later
  • Photos
  • Tannersville photo 1906
  • Zionism - notes
Publications
  • Books
 
 • Poem - America  new
  • In The Time of Harvest (1963)    new
Biography
  • On the internet
  • In-print
  • The work of Ofer Shiff
Recognition
Chair in Jewish Studies   new 
Photos
LP record made in 1954: What is Judaism   new 
Funeral Service
  • El Maley Rachamin
Obituary (N Y Times)
Death Notices (N Y Times) 
Gravesite
Zvi Hirsch Masliansky - Silver's oratorical inspiration
  • Biography
  • Photos
  60th Birthday Celebration
  •
Memoirs 
  • Silver's Eulogy for Masliansky
  • Silver's Handwritten Notes for the Eulogy
Endnotes
Abba Hillel Silver Archives

Rabbi Michaelis Machol by Nathan Arnold
 
Rabbi Louis Wolsey's tribute to Rabbi Machol

Jewish Members of Cleveland's City Council

Rabbi Israel Porath by his family
  • Encyclopedia entries
  • Early years
  • With President Coolidge
  • Porath family in 1929
  • 50th wedding anniversary
  • US Congress
  • Soviet Jewry
  • Trip to Israel
  • Biography
  • Three synagogues
  • Retirement
  • Obituary
  • Appreciations
 
Messages to the community
  • Final resting place
  • Porath and Silver
  • A granddaughter remembers
  • "The Stranger" by Shoney Long
  • Porath Street
  • Window in Oheb Zedek Cedar Sinai Synagogue
  • Porath Family Tree

Leon Wiesenfeld  
  • Memoir: Jewish Life in Cleveland
  •
Adopted Grandchildren 

 

 

VIRTUAL TOUR OF OLD JEWISH CLEVELAND
by Nate Arnold

Home
Introduction
Tour Route
  • Map
  •
Central Market Area  1840-1860   Progressive Field  
  •
East 38th and Community College Ave  1906
  •
East 55th Street    1890-1920
  •
Euclid Avenue and East 82nd  (1912)
  •
East 105th and Ansel Road  (1924)
  •
Hebrew Cultural Garden on East Blvd. (1926)
  •
Parkwood Drive, Morison Avenue
  •
East 105th Street Corey Methodist Church (1921)
  • Union Avenue and Kinsman Avenue
Itinerary (pdf)
Endpage

 
EVENTS AND TRADITIONS

Cleveland's Jews mourn Abraham Lincoln   
Invocations at Republican conventions   
1904 American Zionist Convention     new

Confirmations in Cleveland by Bud Weidenthal
  • Is Confirmation a Disappearing Rite of Passage?
Four generations of confirmations at
The Temple - Tifereth Israel
  • 1905 father William Weidenthal
  • 1941 Maurice (Bud) Weidenthal
  • 1976 daughter Susan Weidenthal Saltzman
  • 2006 granddaughters Hayley and Stephanie
Two confirmations in the 1860s

Bat Mitzvahs - 1922 - First in America    new
  • 1949 - Park Synagogue   new

Going to the Schvitz by Irv (Earl) Seidman

U N Resolution 181 70th Anniversary    new

On the morning of 9/11 we said Kaddish twice  new

PLACES and NEIGHBORHOODS
Wharf on Merwin Street   new
Woodland Avenue
   • Maps
   • Central Market - where we started
Glenville
   ● Information Sheet
   ● The last Jewish-owned business in Glenville

Geneva Ohio Jewish Farmers  
   ● The picnics of 1928 and 1929  
   ● Abba Hillel Silver's $1,000 gift  
   ● 1928 picnic photo, with names   
   ● Naming who was in the photo  

   ● The Flock farm and its owners  
   ● Learn more about the farmers  
FREE SOVIET JEWRY MOVEMENT

Cleveland and the Freeing of Soviet Jewry
by Dr Louis Rosenblum

Introduction
Table of Contents

Preface, From These Beginnings
First Contact with the Jewish Federation of Cleveland
Launching the Cleveland Committee

On the National Scene
An American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry

Transforming the Cleveland Committee
Face-to-Face with Visiting Soviet Cultural Groups

Agreement Between the JCFC and the CCSA
CCSA Projects
   •  Spotlight Newsletter
   •  Handbook for Community Action
   •  Students and Housewives 
   •  Protest Stamps (Seals)
   •  Movie - "Before Our Eyes"
   •  Leadership Conferences
  
 Greeting Cards to Soviet Jews
   • 
Freedom Caravan
   •  Project Sefer
Union of Councils for Soviet Jews
Political Action

The Government of Israel — The Elephant in the Room 
   •  Backstory
   •  The Office Finds Us
   •  Blush Off the Rose
   •  Enforcer or Loose Cannon?
   •  Office Overtures: Played Dolce
   •  Office Control Crumbles
   •  The Why and Wherefore and the Woe
   •  In Contrast: An American Strategy
   •  Notes
Coda
Endnote
Biographies:
   •  Abe Silverstein
   •  Louis Rosenblum
   •  Ann Shenkar
Archives
Learn More (links to other resources)
Interview by Daniel Rosenblum  new
   • Text of Interview (pdf) 
new
Pages by others
   • 25th anniversary of Summit Sunday 

   • Natan Sharansky:
     How the movement helped end the Cold War

   • Proclamation of a Sabbath for Soviet Jewry (1966)
   • Herb Caron: how the movement began (1963)
   • Oral History Project 
 new
May 15, 2016 presentation 
Report on Resettlement 

PHOTO GALLERY 
Willson Avenue Temple 1906 
Aaron Garber Library   
Jewish Carpenters Union  
Corky and Lenny's Delicatessen 
The Tannersville Photo of Abba Hillel Silver
Unsleben Bavaria Today
Tetiev, Ukraine Today
Dedication of Silver Hall 2015

Herb Ascherman's Rabbis (2008)
Moshe Adler Moshe Berger
Richard A Block Eric Bram
Frederick A Eisenberg Matthew J Eisenberg
Estelle Gottman-Mills Stephen Grundfest
Michael Hecht Alan Lettofsky
David Lipper Michael A Oppenheimer
Daniel A Roberts Steve Segar
Rona Shapiro Joshua Hoffer Skoff
Susan B Stone Yakov Travis
David S Zlatin  

11/06/19