Building The Temple -
Tifereth Israel in University Circle
1/09/20
The design and construction of one of our most important sacred
spaces. With a gallery of plans
and images. |
Abba Hillel Silver
Chair in Jewish Studies
11/07/19
How the chair was funded and the five scholars who have held it. |
A new Ohio Historical Marker:
A MODERN-DAY EXODUS
9/21/19
The marker at Beth Israel — The West Temple will honor the founding
here of the
campaign to free Soviet Jewry and Cleveland's
resettlement effort. |
Wharf on Merwin Street
9/08/19
Where Cleveland's first Jews and other immigrants landed. |
Memorial Tablets
at the Jewish Orphan Asylum 7/20/19
What happened to the tablets with the names of benefactors of
the old orphan home on Woodland Road? |
The West Side
Synagogues 3/23/19
For nearly a century the small number of Jews living west of the
Cuyahoga River have sustained a synagogue. |
Poem - America 2/10/19
Silver's best known poem: "America"" (1923) and
its origin. |
In The Time of Harvest 2/08/19
A collection of essays published in honor of Abba Hillel Silver
on the occasion of his 70th birthday. |
The
Willson Avenue Temple 9/06/18
The Temple (Tifereth Israel) moved to Central Avenue and East
55th Street (then Willson Avenue) in 1894, after nearly 40 years
downtown. |
Maurice Maschke -
Republican County Leader (coming soon)
Born in 1868, from living above the family grocery store. to
Harvard, then a lawyer. For 20 years the leader of the Cuyahoga
County Republicans. |
Cleveland Jewish
History Sources - 16,000 Index Cards (8/01/18)
Created in 1954-56 these cards were the sources for Lloyd
Gartner's book "History of Cleveland's Jews" and are available
to researchers today. |
Cleveland's first
Jewish burial (7/21/18)
Early in August 1840, when the body of a peddler named Kanweiler
was brought to Cleveland, the community did not yet own a burial
ground. |
The
1904 convention of American Zionists (5/29/18)
About 400 Zionist delegates went "west" to Cleveland, meeting from June
3 - 7, 1904. About 2,000 attended the public sessions. |
When we said Kaddish twice (5/13/18)
We were at a burial service at Mount Olive Cemetery on the
terrible morning of 9/11 and said Kaddish twice. |
The First
American Bat Mitzvah (2/14/18)
Judith, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan's oldest daughter, was
the first, on Saturday March 18, 1922. We include her personal
account of that important day. |
Bat Mitzvah
Ceremonies in Cleveland (1/26/18)
It was exactly 27 years after America's first Bat Mitzvah in New
York that Park Synagogue celebrated our city's first Bat Mitzvah. |
LP record: What is
Judaism (12/23/17)
In a 1954 LP record we hear Abba Hillel Silver explain the
principles of Judaism. |
Jewish History Hub (12/20/17)
A new website and an attempt to use social media to build a
community of people and organizations interested in our area's
Jewish history. |
Making a Connection (12/18/17)
This website and The Lost Jews of Unsleben in Germany connect. |
The 70th
anniversary of U N Resolution 181 (12/06/17)
On November 29, 1947 the United Nations passed
Resolution 181 that divided the British Mandate into Jewish and
Palestinian sections, and Jerusalem. |
An improved
logo for the Jewish Federation of Cleveland (10/24/17)
We think many Clevelanders will welcome this unannounced
change. |
B'nai Jeshurun
Congregation 150 year timeline (10/17/17)
Two large banners display key dates in the congregation's rich
history. |
The Cleveland Jewish
Center Controversy (1920s)
The most complete study of a four year dispute over mixed seating
is a new essay by Professor Ira Robinson in the American Jewish
Archives Journal. |
Our Jewish Community's Oldest Signed Document
In 1840 Cleveland's Jews asked for land in the city's cemetery
on Erie Street (today East 9th).
See the just-discovered petition. |
Federation's
Names and Logos Over the Years (8/08/17)
We present a useful page from their old website |
The
Yizkor Plaque in the Maltz Performing Arts Center (7/26/17)
After millions had seen it at the 1939-1940 World's Fair it
became part of the Memory Corner in The Temple's sanctuary . |
The
Flock Farm and Meyer and Slova Flock (7/12/17)
The Harpersfield Ohio farm where the Geneva Jewish farmers met
and its owners Meyer and Slova Flock. |
Silver's
Gift to the Geneva Ohio
Jewish Farmers (5/04/17)
What was the source of those funds, what was their purpose? |
Geneva Ohio
Jewish Farmers (3/08/17)
The now lost agricultural community about 50
miles east of Cleveland and
their 1928 and 1929 picnics. |
B'nai Jeshurun
Congregation 150th anniversary (3/03/17)
A new overview page plus the Cleveland Jewish News remarkable
Timeline page. |
The
Wiesenfeld's Adopted Grandchildren
(2/26/17)
Michele Lowy Seligmann tells how she and her sister Ellen became
the "adopted" granddaughters of Leon and Esther Wiesenfeld. |
Jewish
Community Council
(12/30/16)
Formed in 1935, the Council included 140 organizations before it
merged with the Jewish Welfare Federation in 1951. (PIP) |
Leon Wiesenfeld
(12/27/16)
This Polish-born journalist was editor of Cleveland
Yiddish-language papers, a fighter for his people, and an ardent
Zionist. |
Jewish Life
in Cleveland in the 1920s and 1930s
(12/27/16)
Wiesenfeld's memoir is a little known treasure of tales of
Cleveland many years ago. We publish the entire 160 page book. (pdf) |
Involvement in the
Soviet Jewry movement
(10/21/16)
The text of extensive interviews of Louis Rosenblum by Daniel
Rosenblum (pdf) |
Tiffany
Mosaic at the Euclid Avenue Temple
(8/16/16)
We show the glass mosaic with a line from a Psalm of David,
created by Tiffany Studios, that hangs in the choir loft. |
Invocations
at Republican conventions
(7/19/16)
The text by Abba Hillel Silver (1952) and Ari Wolf (2016) |
Resettlement
of Russian Speaking Jews to Cleveland
Read Rachel Davidson's carefully researched report written in
August 2013. (posted here on 5/18/16) |
Lou Rosenblum and Herb
Caron appearance (5/17/16)
We give a "taste" of the May 15, 2016 talks by these leaders of the
campaign to free Soviet Jewry. |
Soviet Jewish Oral
History Project (5/03/16)
The Soviet Jewish Oral History
Collection will become a new WRHS research resource in the fall of
2016. |
Set an empty
chair at your Seder table (4/18/16)
editorial
We suggest that an empty chair at your Seder table
be a reminder of the 20th century Exodus of Soviet Jews. |
B'nai Jeshurun
Congregation 140 year timeline (2/09/16)
We display four images - a visual presentation of key events in
the history of our city's first Conservative congregation. |
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