CONTENTS     
 
1916 age 23 1927  age 34 1934 age 41 1942 age 49 1962 age 69
 
Photo credits:
1916 - archives, hives of Temple Shalom, Wheeling WV, his first pulpit
1927 - from a photo with Chaim Weizmann at the Hebrew Cultural Garden.
1934 - courtesy of The Temple - Tifereth Israel
1942 - at a Zionist meeting in London
1962 - photo by Yousof Karsh, courtesy of The Temple-Tifereth Israel
 

ABBA HILLEL SILVER

About this Site

Introduction — how these pages came to be
Site Guide — how we present information
Permissions - Privacy statement
Recollections — memories of Abba Hillel Silver

Youth

The family's arrival, photos, maps, 1910 census

Wheeling

June 1915 - June 1917 in Wheeling,
Coming to Cleveland  

The Temple

The Temple - Tifereth Israel in Cleveland, Ohio   

Zionism

Ascent to leadership, success and later.
Photos.  

Tannersville: 13 year old Abe Silver in knickers 

Publications

Books by AHS
Poem: "America"  
In The Time of Harvest  (A festschrift, 1963)

Biography

Biographies of Abba Hillel Silver: web and print
The work of Ofer Shiff.

Recognition

Welcome, stamp, streets, Eisenhower inauguration,
Kfar Silver school,
Abba Hillel Silver Chair in Jewish Studies at CWRU 

Photos

A small gallery of personal and family photographs 

Video/Audio

May 8, 1947 - Silver reads statement before UN Political and Security Committee
1954 - LP record: What is Judaism

Death

Silver's death, funeral servicegravesite,
obituary and Death Notices

Masliansky

Zvi Hirsch Masliansky, Biography, Photos, Memoirs 
Silver's Eulogy  Birthday

Endnotes

Webkeeper's notes and supplementary information.

Resources

The Abba Hillel Silver Archives  
Recommended sites on Cleveland and American Jewish history.   

Other sections

The friendship of Rabbis Porath and Silver
What inspired the design of The Temple in University Circle?


FROM THE WEBKEEPER

This is the only website whose focus is the life of Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver. He is gone more than 50 years now, yet somehow he is still my rabbi.

Please contact me with your comments and reports of any broken links. Our Contact page. I invite you to see the main Cleveland Jewish History website.

Arnold Berger  

 
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