GENERAL SUPPORT

We have often linked to two history websites for more information, and at times they have linked to our pages:
 ● The Jewish Virtual Library, editor Mitchell Bard PhD, and
 ● The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, editor John Grabowski PhD.

The Cleveland Jewish News has several times reported on our work. We use its Archives, which went online in 2010, almost daily. We are grateful to Susan Levine and others in the Cleveland Jewish News Foundation who have funded the archive's development and growth  Thanks to former editors  Michael Bennett and Cynthia Dettelbach and so many reporters who have thanked us for our pages and whose reports have helped us in our work. In recent years publisher Kevin Adelstein and operations manager Abby Royer have moved the archive to a more sustainable platform whose capabilities are now being improved.

With regret, we must note that our three attempts to share the most important Cleveland Jewish historical "find" in decades, the 1840 Petition, have failed.

Until its sad closing in August 2014 the Aaron Garber Library was very helpful. Thanks to Jean Lettofsky z'l and Ilka Gordon.

We often benefit from the resources at the Jewish Archives at the Western Reserve Historical Society and the help and encouragement of Sean Martin PhD, Associate Curator for Jewish History, Ann Sindelar and others at the reference desk. The archives would not be there without the vision of the late Judah Rubenstein and the financial support of the Gries and Rather families.

John Grabowski PhD of CWRU and WRHS has helped in many ways. Through the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History that he helped create years ago and has long guided, all interested in Northeast Ohio history have benefitted.

Milton and Tamara Maltz  who directly (through the Maltz Museum and their amazing support that gave The Temple at University Circle a new life), and his role in Cleveland honoring its Jewish leaders make him the greatest-ever supporter of Cleveland's Jewish history. 

Nate Arnold and Jeffrey Morris are today's most knowledgeable and helpful lay historians of the Cleveland Jewish experience. They have been my "go to" persons forr questions. Jeff can deep-dive to find the documentary facts, and Nate can add the "back stories" that make a web page warmer.

Bill Barrow, CSU's Special Collections Librarian, has been helpful in answering questions, growing the Cleveland Memory Project, bringing together web historians to share ideas, web publishing Alan Peskin's "This Tempting Freedom" and the Jeffrey Morris treasure "Haymarket to the Heights."

Mike Baron, who loves history. Through his volunteer efforts leading Teaching Cleveland he has helped bring history to students, teachers and the public. He has given me encouragement and insight.

Myra Shays, my twin sister, who for years helped in the edits of tough pages. She can spot an misused word all the way from Providence, RI.