| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Rebecca Aronson Brickner Papers
| | | | Creator: | Brickner, Rebecca Aronson | | | | Dates: | 1915-1980 | | | | Abstract: | Rebecca Aronson Brickner was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Her parents, Max and Dora Aronson, followed Orthodox Jewish practices and had strong ties to the Zionist movement. She received a rigorous Jewish education with Dr. Samson Benderley, and in 1910 accompanied him, as his Hebrew secretary, to New York City, where he established the Bureau of Jewish Education. While in New York, she became the first woman to complete a new program in Jewish education at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and the first woman with a professional degree in Jewish education in the United States. She married Barnett R. Brickner in 1919, accompanying him first to Cincinnati, Ohio, where be studied for the rabbinate at Hebrew Union College, and then to Toronto where his first pulpit was located. While living in Toronto, she established Hadassah in Canada; in 1912 she had been a founding member of Hadassah in the United States with Henrietta Szold. The Brickners came to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1925, where Rabbi Brickner was to lead Anshe Chesed Congregation (Fairmount Temple) until his death in 1958. Rebecca Brickner continued to promote Jewish education and women's organizations in Cleveland. By her impetus, in 1963 the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies became an agency independent of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Cleveland. She also established the college's Women's Association. The collection consists of writings, lecture notes, certificates, and a scrapbook. Of particular note is her account of the founding of Hadassah in 1912. | | | | Call #: | MS 4776 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Brickner, Rebecca Aronson, 1894-1988. | Brickner, Barnett R. (Barnett Robert), 1892-1958. | Cleveland College of Jewish Studies. | Anshe Chesed Congregation (Cleveland, Ohio) | Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America. | Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Education. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Jewish religious education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Reform Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education | | | | Dates: | 1918-1968 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education was organized in 1924 as the coordinating agency for the following Jewish educational institutions in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio, area: Cleveland Hebrew Schools, Hebrew Academy, United Jewish Religious Schools, Institute of Jewish Studies, Workmen's Circle School, and Yeshivath Adath Bعnai Israel. The collection consists of correspondence, committee minutes, reports, financial records, scrapbooks, publications of the Bureau and its affiliated schools, and files of the Jewish Community Federation. | | | | Call #: | MS 3832 | | | | Extent: | 17.20 linear feet (20 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education (Cleveland, Ohio). | Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish religious education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | School boards -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Private school trustees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish religious schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish day schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Cleveland College of Jewish Studies Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland College of Jewish Studies | | | | Dates: | 1927-2000 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland College of Jewish Studies is a non-denominational institution of higher Jewish learning supported by the Jewish community of Cleveland, Ohio. Accredited by the state of Ohio, degree programs in Judaic studies are offered, as are lifelong learning programs on Jewish topics for adults. In 1947, two Cleveland institutions founded in the 1920s, the Jewish Teachers Institute and the Beth Midrash L'Morim (Hebrew Teacher Training School), merged to form the Cleveland Institute of Jewish Studies, under the auspices of the Bureau of Jewish Education. In 1952, the Cleveland Institute of Jewish Studies became an independent agency. Through the initiative of Rebecca Aronson Brickner, the institute became known as the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies in 1963. It shared space with the Bureau of Jewish Education in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, before occupying its own building in Beachwood, Ohio. The collection consists of record books of the Cleveland Institute of Jewish Studies; yearbooks, newsletters, course offering catalogs, newspaper clippings, programs, and minutes of the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies; and reports, programs, and newspaper clippings about Jewish agencies in the Cleveland metropolitan area. | | | | Call #: | MS 4826 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland College of Jewish Studies. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish religious education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Judaism -- Study and teaching -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish religious education of adults -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Adult education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Universities and colleges -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Friends of Aaron Garber Library Records
| | | | Creator: | Friends of the Aaron Garber Library | | | | Dates: | 1963-2014 | | | | Abstract: | The primary mission of the Friends of the Aaron Garber Library was to promote and support the Aaron Garber Library of the Siegal College of Judaic Studies and continuing education in Jewish learning through programming, volunteer service, and fundraising. The secondary mission of the organization was to provide funds to the Mandel Jewish Community Center. The organization was active from the early 1960s through 2016. The collection consists of academic calendars, agendas, announcements, annual reports, budgets, bulletins, bylaws, calendars, catalogs, certificates, correspondence, flyers, forms, information packets, invitations, marketing materials, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, outlines, color and black and white photographs (31), press releases, programs, proposals, rosters, scrapbooks, and workbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 5420 | | | | Extent: | 2.00 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland College of Jewish Studies. | Adult education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish religious education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Judaism -- Study and teaching -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Universities and colleges -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | Yeshivath Adath B'nai Israel Records
| | | | Creator: | Yeshivath Adath B'nai Israel | | | | Dates: | 1921-1975 | | | | Abstract: | Yeshivath Adath B'nai Israel was incorporated in 1917 as an Orthodox afternoon Hebrew school in Cleveland, Ohio. It later merged with the Oheb Zedek School (1948), the Torah Institute of the Telshe Yeshivath (1949), and the Kinsman, Marmarosher, and Heights Jewish Centers in 1951, 1956 and 1958 respectively. The collection consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, constitution, articles of incorporation, teacher and student records, budgets, tax and payroll records, ledgers, insurance and membership records, yearbooks, and records of other Hebrew schools, Yeshivath Adath B'nai Israel branches, and institutions associated with Yeshivath Adath B'nai Israel, such as the Bureau of Jewish Education and the Jewish Community Federation. | | | | Call #: | MS 3834 | | | | Extent: | 10.60 linear feet (16 containers and 2 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Yeshivath Adath B'nai Israel (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish religious schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish religious education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Orthodox Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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