Cleveland Jewish History

Cleveland Jewish History

More than 260 pages, 600 images and 500 links to other websites,
contributed by a growing group of authors sharing Cleveland's Jewish history.

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Cleveland's Holocaust Memorial - now 50 years old	Two early confirmations - in the 1860s
Jewish radio broadcasting in Cleveland	"This Tempting Freedom" by Allan Peskin
Gary Polster on the Jewish Orphan Asylum	Jewish members of Cleveland City Council
Federation moves east - a chronology	1899 - Jewish leaders fight for political reform
CJN's new Digital Archive	Annual review of website History pages
Leonard Case's great gift to Cleveland's Jews	The Rise and Fall of Czar Bernstein 1907
A 1920 directory of Jewish Cleveland	Our first three cemeteries

1846
Eagle Street Synagogue
Cleveland's First

1880
Harry Bernstein
Czar of Ward 16

1916
Abba Hillel Silver
in Wheeling WV

Virtual Tour by Nate Arnold	Glenville Memories	Cleveland's Old Synagogues
Generations	Simpson Thorman -1839	Sam and Minnie Klausner - 1910
Abba Hillel Silver	Jewish Institutions	Soviet Jewry by Lou Rosenblum
Rabbis by Herb Ascherman	Confirmations by Bud Weidenthal	History Resources

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