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Abba Hillel Silver
by Arnold Berger

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Youth
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• 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
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• Zvi Hirsch Masliansky
• Biography
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• Memoirs
• Silver's Eulogy
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• Cleveland Jewish history
• American Jewish history.

Synagogues

Patriarchs
Psalmists

Moses
Sages

Kings
Talmudists

Prophets
Middle Ages

Institutions

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

Generations

Main page
Simpson Thorman, first Jewish settler from Unsleben, Bavaria, 1839
• Simpson Thorman
• His daughter Lizzie Thorman Hays
• Her daughter Rolinda Hays Joseph
• Her son Ralph S Joseph
• His daughter Martha J Joseph

Sam and Minnie Klausner, from Tetiev, Ukraine, 1910
• Introduction
• The Pale of Settlement and the Great Wave of Immigration
  • From Russia to Cleveland
  • 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
   • 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 Family Tree

Events and Traditions

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

People

Main People page
Rabbi Philip Horowitz
see Brith Emeth - Philip Horowitz by Alan Levenson
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver see Silver section
Jewish Members of Cleveland's City Council
"Czar" Harry Bernstein
• 1899 - Jewish Leaders fight for political reform
• Bernstein's Elbow
• Rise and Fall of Czar Bernstein (Plain Dealer April 21, 1907)
Herb Ascherman's Rabbis
• 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
Gallery
• Sogolovitz family

Neighborhoods

Cleveland and the Freeing
of Soviet Jewry
by Lou Rosenblum

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