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1	Title:	Peoples of Cleveland Ethnic Group Histories Manuscript
	Creator:	Works Progress Administration
	Dates:	1939-1942
	Abstract:	The Peoples of Cleveland was a project of the Writers' Program of the Works Project Administration (WPA) under the sponsorship of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the city of Cleveland, Ohio, which was intended as a supplementary text for junior and senior high school social studies. The collection consists of a carbon copy of an unedited manuscript and several short histories of ethnic groups in Cleveland, including the Bulgarians, Danes, Finns, Norwegians, Swedes and Swiss, and a large amount of preliminary material on the Hungarians, including interviews, biographies and a list of organizations and churches.
	Call #:	MS 4007
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Minorities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Bulgarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Danish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Finnish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Norwegian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Swedish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Swiss Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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2	Title:	Joseph Eszterhas Essay
	Creator:	Eszterhas, Joseph
	Dates:	1965
	Abstract:	The collection consists of an essay entitled "Journey from futility to hope : the immigrant's road to American assimilation" written by Joseph A. Eszterhas while he was a student at Ohio University in the 1960s who was an editorial intern at radio station WZAK in Cleveland, Ohio. The essay is a typewritten manuscript prepared for his Journalism 370 course at Ohio University and based on his WZAK internship. The paper examines the assimilation process of Cleveland's Hungarian American community of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an example of the Central European immigrant experience. Includes a discussion of the historical development of assimilation, a nationality calendar, and consulates in Cleveland in 1965.
	Call #:	MS 4468
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Assimilation (Sociology) \| Americanization. \| Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Foreign population. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Ethnic relations.
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3	Title:	Henry Spira Papers
	Creator:	Spira, Henry
	Dates:	1885-1941
	Abstract:	Henry Spira (1863-1941) was an Hungarian-Jewish liquor merchant who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1891 and established a foreign-exchange banking office and steamship ticket company. The collection consists of immigration and naturalization papers, passports, other materials documenting Spira's trips to and from Hungary, documents which highlight Spira's early years in the United States., and correspondence, stock certificates, and other items of the Spira International Express Company.
	Call #:	MS 3760
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Spira, Henry, 1863-1941. \| Jews, Hungarian -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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4	Title:	Hungarian Aid Society Records
	Creator:	Hungarian Aid Society
	Dates:	1926-1962
	Abstract:	The Hungarian Aid Society was formed in 1863 in Cleveland, Ohio, for the mutual protection and relief of its Jewish members. Hungarian Jewish immigrants Morris Black, his brother David Black, Herman Sampliner, and others established the fraternal organization to help new immigrants, assist the needy and sick, bury the dead, and provide benefits to orphans and widows. In 1948, the Society reorganized as a cemetery society. In the early 1960s, its operations were taken over by Park Synagogue. The collection consists of minutes, annual reports, cemetery records, legal documents, and correspondence.
	Call #:	MS 4792
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Black, Morris, d. 1864. \| Black, David, 1819-1880. \| Hungarian Aid Society (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. \| Friendly societies -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews, Hungarian -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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5	Title:	East End Neighborhood House Records
	Creator:	East End Neighborhood House
	Dates:	1911-1966
	Abstract:	East End Neighborhood House was founded in the Cleveland, Ohio, in 1907 by Hedwig Kosbob, as a sewing school in the predominantly Hungarian and Slovak neighborhood of Buckeye-Woodland. It was incorporated in 1910. By 1914 it began cultural and recreational programs, and by the Great Depression it grew into a full service community center, adding such services as day care nurseries, Americanization classes, and aid to Japanese Americans relocated to Cleveland during World War II. The collection consists of organizational proceedings, membership records, correspondence, program reports, group worker reports, announcements, scrapbooks, and printed materials.
	Call #:	MS 3568
	Extent:	11.70 linear feet (30 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	East End Neighborhood House (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Day care centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. \| Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Slovak Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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