The Workmen's Circle of Cleveland Records, 1921-1982 and undated, (bulk 1971-1982), consist of minutes, notes and related material of the Great Lakes Regional Board, minutes of the National Executive Board, correspondence, reports of the Ohio District Conference, 1978, and the national convention, 1980, receipt book, newsletters of Cleveland branches and the Great Lakes Region, programs, invitations, branch leader manuals, photocopies of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings and miscellany.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of the Jewish community in Cleveland, Ohio, in the twentieth century and efforts to preserve Yiddish language and culture.
The collection is arranged by document type and then chronologically.
The researcher should also consult MS 4891 Workmen's Circle of Cleveland Records, Series II; MS 5088 Workmen's Circle of Cleveland Records, Series III; PG 317 Workmen's Circle of Cleveland Photographs; PG 523 Workmen's Circle of Cleveland Photographs, Series II; and PG 560 Workmen's Circle of Cleveland Photographs, Series III.
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[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4026 Workmen's Circle of Cleveland, Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of Workmen's Circle of Cleveland in 1986.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.