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The Memorial Tablets | |
At the Jewish Orphan Asylum in Cleveland |
The Jewish Orphan Asylum, founded in 1868, was one of the region's oldest, largest and most respected Jewish institutions. B'nai Brith members in 15 states helped to support it. Its memorial program was a major source of funds. Such gifts and bequests were noted in the minutes of the Orphan Asylum Board of Trustees and were sometimes announced in the Jewish newspapers. This announcement in the Jewish Independent of August 15, 1913 explains that a gift of $100 or more assured a perpetual yahrzeit, recited by the orphans. Rabbi Samuel Wolfenstein PhD, (1841 - 1921), born and educated in Bohemia, was the director from 1878 to 1913. |
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Below:
an image from
"Inside Looking Out" by
Gary Polster PhD
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THE OLD
AND NEW JEWISH ORPHAN
HOME |
Below: around 1900. Looking south from Woodland Road The site, once beyond Cleveland's city limits, by the 1920s had become industrial. The property extended south to the ravine known as Kingsbury Run. Image source: offered for sale on eBay. |
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Below: around 1930. Looking south toward Fairmount Blvd. The 30 acre property had five residential units, each with two "cottages" whose first floor was used for social, dining and staff purposes with the second floor for bedrooms. If the memorial tablets were moved, their most likely home would have been in the building in the center foreground: the B'nai B'rith Chapel which was remodeled in the 1990s and renamed the Wuliger Chapel. Image source: Walter Leedy Collection, Michael Schwartz Library, CSU. |
LOOKING FOR THE LOST TABLETS | |
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AB July 22, 2019 |