Celebrating the Modern Exodus
3/28/2024
Requesting Seder material on the freeing of Soviet Jews to be shared
with congregations and families. |
Jewish Members
of Cleveland City Council 2/06/2024
Our 2011 page was updated on learning that Cleveland has a Jewish member
of City Council: Rebecca Maurer (Ward 12). |
Bird's-eye View
of Cleveland 1877 1/06/2024
This not-to-scale drawing shows our first two congregations, listed
as "Congregational churches". |
Death of Rabbi Abba
Hillel Silver 11/23/2023
His sudden death on Thanksgiving Day 1963 stunned his congregation
and the Jewish world. |
A Charles Eisenman Award
for the CCSA 10/23/2023
Updated 3/27/24 because The Cleveland Council on Soviet
Anti-Semitism, no longer active, is not eligible for this award. |
Willet
Street Cemetery Deed - 1840 7/06/2023
The record of Josiah Barber transferring land for the first Jewish
burial ground to the Israelitic Society. |
Headstone of Alexander Kahnweiler 6/28/2023
Best image we have found, taken in 2007 by Paul Klein. |
The Great Defection
of 1866 6/24/2023
Cleveland had only two congregations, one with twice as many members
as the other. Then on June 21, 1866 they became equal in size. |
Alexander
Kahnweiler Documents 6/15/2023
Documenting more about the man who was Cleveland's
first Jewish burial and a superb
image of his headstone. . |
Simson Thorman
Time Line 6/07/2023
Major events in the life of Cleveland's first Jewish settler and
long-time community leader. |
Council of
Jewish Women Holocaust Oral Histories 4/21/2023
The stories of 136 survivors, liberators and righteous Gentiles are
now on the U S Holocaust Memorial Museum website. |
Founding of
Federation of Jewish Charities 3/23/2023
Newspaper accounts of the November 16, 1903 founding of what would
evolve to be our Jewish Federation of Cleveland. |
Warner
Brothers: Film pioneers and movie moguls 1/4/2023
Gail Greenberg writes about Harry, Sam, Albert and Jack Warner from
Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley. |
Holocaust
Memorial Program 2017
5/16/22
Mark S Frank shares a photo and a copy of the 2017 program, with a
history of the memorial and list of those named on it. |
Workmen's Circle Photo Gallery
1/21/22
Mitchell Rose shares the memory of the 1927 Workmen's Circle
National Convention. More old Arbeter Ring images to follow.. |
Siegel, Shuster and
Superman
12/12/21
Cleveland's and Glenville Neighborhood's Own. The two Jewish boys,
sons of immigrants, who created Superman. |
Seat Licenses for
the Synagogues of Anshe Chesed
11/25/21
License documents for sanctuary seats in 1842, 1888 and 1814. |
Portrait of
Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver 10/05/21
Added to our Rabbis collection, a 1979 portrait of Rabbi Daniel
Jeremy Silver by photographer Herb Ascherman. |
Play Ball Alta
Weiss! 9/06/21
Alta Weiss (1890 - 1964), a pitcher on otherwise all-male teams, who
played semi-pro baseball. By Gail Greenberg |
Fashioning
Cleveland's Union-Made Clothing 8/20/21
Unionization and employment practices in our garment industry, once
second only to New York. By Gail Greenberg |
Confirmation
in 1923
6/25/21
Jewish congregations - Orthodox, Conservative and Reform - all
had their largest-ever Confirmation classes. |
Corrigan
Gate at Mayfield Cemetery
4/19/21
A plaque honoring the service of Patrick Corrigan, and our own
thanks for his help over more than 20 years. |
WOMEN
Gail Greenberg, editor 12/21/20
This new resource now includes essays on
▪ Rabbi Sally Jane Priesand: America's First Woman Rabbi
▪ Lt. Col. Rae D. Landy: Nursing Pioneer
▪ Rebecca Aronson Brickner: Educator and Community Leader
▪ Dorothy Snell Fuldheim: Journalist and Broadcasting Pioneer |
Hanukkah in
Cleveland
12/18/20
Newspaper coverage of Cleveland Hanukkah observance, many on the
public display and lighting of menorahs. |
A new resource page -
WOMEN
10/21/20
Links to resources about Cleveland Jewish women and their
changing roles in Jewish life, on our pages and elsewhere. |
Northeast Ohio Jewish History
9/18/20
Our Facebook group is changing its name to more accurately fit
its focus on Cleveland and Northeast Ohio history. |
Max Kalish (1891 - 1945) renowned sculptor
8/13/20
Best remembered for his creation of Cleveland's statue of
Abraham Lincoln speaking at Gettysburg. |
Second
Destruction of Orthodox Synagogues
6/12/20
Professor Ira Robinson's essay on Rabbi Israel Porath's March
28, 1945 commentary in the Yiddish Velt. |
Aaron J Marx - Cleveland's
First Jewish Policeman
5/22/20
Linda Silverman Shefler writes about her
great-great-grandfather, Aaron J
Marx (1834 - 1901), a Civil War veteran. |
Yom Kippur 1887 -
A Synagogue Tour
5/13/20
A Plain Dealer a reporter tells of his
visits to five temples with his "Hebrew" guide. |
Morison Avenue
Bath House and Mikveh
4/30/20
Gail Greenberg writes about
Glenville’s Morison Avenue Russian Turkish Bath House and Mikvah. |
What inspired the
design of The Temple?
3/20/20
How the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem may have influenced the
design of The Temple in University Circle. |
Building The Temple in University Circle
1/09/20
Gail Greenberg's story of the design and construction of one of
this important sacred
space. With a gallery of plans
and images. |
Abba Hillel Silver
Chair in Jewish Studies
11/07/19
How the chair was funded and the five scholars who have held it. |
A new Historical Marker:
A MODERN-DAY EXODUS
9/21/19
The marker at Beth Israel — The West Temple will honor the founding
here of the
campaign to free Soviet Jewry and Cleveland's
resettlement effort. |
Wharf on Merwin Street
9/08/19
Where Cleveland's first Jews and other immigrants landed. |
Memorial Tablets
at the Orphan Asylum 7/20/19
What happened to the tablets with the names of benefactors of
the old orphan home on Woodland Road? |
The West Side
Synagogues 3/23/19
For nearly a century the small number of Jews living west of the
Cuyahoga River have sustained a synagogue. |
Poem - America 2/10/19
Silver's best known poem: "America"" (1923) and
its origin. |
In The Time of Harvest 2/08/19
A collection of essays published in honor of Abba Hillel Silver
on the occasion of his 70th birthday. |
The
Willson Avenue Temple 9/06/18
The Temple (Tifereth Israel) moved to Central Avenue and East
55th Street (then Willson Avenue) in 1894, after nearly 40 years
downtown. |
Maurice Maschke -
Republican County Leader (coming soon)
Born in 1868, from living above the family grocery store. to
Harvard, then a lawyer. For 20 years the leader of the Cuyahoga
County Republicans. |
Jewish
History Sources - 16,000 Index Cards (8/01/18)
Created in 1954-56 these cards were the sources for Lloyd
Gartner's book "History of Cleveland's Jews" and are available
to researchers today. |
Cleveland's first
Jewish burial (7/21/18)
Early in August 1840, when the body of a peddler named Kahnweiler
was brought to Cleveland, the community did not yet own a burial
ground. |
The
1904 convention of American Zionists (5/29/18)
About 400 Zionist delegates went "west" to Cleveland, meeting from June
3 - 7, 1904. About 2,000 attended the public sessions. |
When we said Kaddish twice (5/13/18)
We were at a burial service at Mount Olive Cemetery on the
terrible morning of 9/11 and said Kaddish twice. |
The First
American Bat Mitzvah (2/14/18)
Judith, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan's oldest daughter, was
the first, on Saturday March 18, 1922. We include her personal
account of that important day. |
First Bat Mitzvah
Ceremony in Cleveland (1/26/18)
It was exactly 27 years after America's first Bat Mitzvah
ceremony in New
York that Park Synagogue celebrated our city's first congregational Bat Mitzvah
celebration. |
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