http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?freeformQuery%3Dwomen's%20history;smode%3Dadvanced;f1-subject%3DJews%20--%20Ohio%20--%20Cleveland Results for your query: freeformQuery=women's history;smode=advanced;f1-subject=Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5442.xml Albert B. Ratner, was born in Cleveland in 1927. Albert married Faye Katz (1931-1978) in 1950 and had two children, Deborah Ratner (b. 1959) and Brian Ratner (b. 1957). Faye was killed in an automobile accident in 1978. Albert later married Audrey Gilbert Pritzker (b. 1928) in 1981. In the 1950s, Albert joined the family business, Forest City Materials, which had been established as a lumber and building materials company back in the 1920s. He continued to serve in numerous positions at Forest City until the company was purchased by Brookfield Asset Management in 2018. Albert has served on the governing boards of numerous local, state, and international business and cultural organizations. His community involvement and philanthropic activities have been widely recognized by organizations and agencies such as Builders Magazine, the Business Hall of Fame of Cleveland, Financial World Magazine, Harvard Business Club, the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, and the United States ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5442.xml Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4995.xml The Young People's Congregation was a congregation within Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple (Beachwood, Ohio) for younger members of the temple. Activities include services for young families, drama productions, social get-togethers, community outreach and interfaith programs, youth education and enrollment in the religious school, publication of a newsletter, The Mosaic, and the Free-a-Family program to help Soviet Jewry. The collection consists of audio tapes, awards, correspondence, clippings, flyers, lists of members, financial records, programs, newsletters, play scripts, photograph album, posters, and a scrapbook. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4995.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5491.xml Beatrice Yarus Abrams and her husband, Harry Abrams, owned Caxton Printers Supply Company. She was active in the Cleveland, Ohio, area Jewish community, served as a board member of Cleveland Club of Litho and Printing House Craftsmen, and president of Memorial School PTA. She died on February 8, 2005, in Cleveland at age 95. The collection consists of account books, an advertisement, agreements, articles, an appraisal, booklets, budget books, bulletins, cards, certificates, contracts, correspondence, a daily planner, a family tree, a floor plan, an invitation, a ledger book, loan receipts, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, newspaper articles, newspaper clippings, notes, obituaries, photographs, poems, postcards, a poster, programs, speeches, a textbook, tickets, and yearbooks. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5491.xml Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5491.xml Beatrice Yarus Abrams and her husband, Harry Abrams, owned Caxton Printers Supply Company. She was active in the Cleveland, Ohio, area Jewish community, served as a board member of Cleveland Club of Litho and Printing House Craftsmen, and president of Memorial School PTA. She died on February 8, 2005, in Cleveland at age 95. The collection consists of account books, an advertisement, agreements, articles, an appraisal, booklets, budget books, bulletins, cards, certificates, contracts, correspondence, a daily planner, a family tree, a floor plan, an invitation, a ledger book, loan receipts, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, newspaper articles, newspaper clippings, notes, obituaries, photographs, poems, postcards, a poster, programs, speeches, a textbook, tickets, and yearbooks. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5491.xml Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5175.xml The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975 to prepare exhibits for the American Revolution Bicentennial celebration in Cleveland. The exhibits were to depict contributions from Cleveland's ethnic groups to the multicultural society of the area. Following the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, the museum established a permanent office and exhibit gallery in the Old Arcade in downtown Cleveland. Although the museum closed in 1981, it was able to document the experiences of immigrants through oral histories, photographs, and other collected material. The collection consists of audio recordings, video recordings, interview transcripts, ledgers, financial documents, membership lists, board meeting minutes, correspondence, presentation materials, notes, catalog cards, exhibit materials, and museum holdings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5175.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5423.xml Herman Friedman was born in Hungary in 1855 and immigrated to the United States as a young man, arriving in Cleveland, Ohio in 1882. He founded Friedman-Blau-Farber in 1883, which was Cleveland's only fully-integrated knitting mill. The Company developed its own dye house, box factory, and knitting machines. It supplied knitted outerwear for men and women. The Company closed in 1939. The collection consists of a scrapbook about the 50th anniversary celebration of the Company in 1933, and photographs of various members of the Friedman family, as well as a scrapbook of condolences that were received by the Friedman family, following Herman's death at age 85 in December, 1935. There also are three compact discs, by Robert Friedman, of the Friedman family history. Robert was a grandson of Herman Friedman. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5423.xml Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5169.xml Libbie L. Braverman was a nationally prominent teacher, author, lecturer, and consultant in the field of Jewish education. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she moved to Cleveland, Ohio, while in high school. She received a teaching certificate from Cleveland Normal School (ca. 1920) and a B.S. in Education from Western Reserve University in 1933. From 1946-1952 she was director of the Euclid Avenue Temple School and in 1945, became the first woman elected to the Board of the National Council for Jewish Education. She wrote numerous books and articles, including many co-authored with Nathan Brilliant. She was married to architect Sigmund Braverman in 1924. The collection consists of a curriculum, manuals for teachers, pageants, and a workbook. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5169.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5437.xml Luba Klot, a Polish Jewish survivor of the Holocaust from Vilnius, came to the United States in 1949, married Ike Slodov, and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. Her sister Deborah and mother Miriam also survived the Holocaust. Slodov used art therapy as a way to grieve for other family members she lost, especially her father. Slodov received her MA in Art Therapy from Ursuline College in 1992 and participated in and won many art contests in the Cleveland and Akron areas. The collection consists of documents related to the history of her family in Poland and their emigration to the United States. The materials also address her interest and career in art and art therapy. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5437.xml Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4919.xml Mount Sinai Hospital had its origins in the Young Ladies Hebrew Association for the Care of the Needy Sick, created in 1892 by nine young women in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1900, they changed their name to the Jewish Women's Hospital Association. A 29-bed facility, named Mount Sinai Hospital, opened in 1903 at 2373 E. 37th St. In 1916, a new, larger facility was opened at E. 105th St. and Ansel Rd. Innovations included outpatient clinics for pediatrics and mental hygiene, established in 1915. A nursing school was included. Mount Sinai affiliated with Western Reserve University for the training and education of its nurses in 1930, and its doctors in 1947. Medical research was given a high priority. The Women's and Junior Women's auxiliaries provided important assistance to the medical staff and patients, including a nursery school for children of nurses and volunteers. Mount Sinai served as a major medical resource for Cleveland's east side throughout its history. Expansion included a twelve-story building and a kid... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4919.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5461.xml NA'AMAT USA is a Labor Zionist women's organization originally called Pioneer Women. The Cleveland Council of NA'AMAT was founded in 1926, one year after the national organization came into being. As the organization grew, it was divided into numbered chapters. At its peak, there were fourteen chapters. In 1999, there were four chapters in the Cleveland Council, serving 650 women. Pioneer Women was organized to provide training, educational services, and social services to women, children, and families in Palestine. The Cleveland Council raised funds and sponsored programs that informed the Cleveland community of social service and educational needs in Israel. The national organization also promoted Habonim, a youth organization, and sponsored Jewish and cultural activities. In 1985 the name Pioneer Women was changed to NA'AMAT USA, in order to more closely match its sister organization in Israel, NA'AMAT. The NA'AMAT USA Cleveland Council Records, Series IV collection consists of agenda... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5461.xml Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5446.xml Nina Freedlander Gibans has been active in Greater Cleveland's arts, culture and educational community for nearly six decades as an arts advocate, administrator, author, and teacher as well as a community volunteer. Gibans was born on July 30, 1932. Her family, the Freedlanders, were, according to family legend, peddlers who headed west in the 1880s from Buffalo, New York. They settled in Wooster, Ohio in the 1940s, where they founded and operated Freedlander's Department Store. After her marriage to architect James Gibans, the family moved to San Francisco where James found work. It was the height of the Beat Era; there Nina often gave poetry readings and had connections with Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Upon her family's return to Cleveland in 1960, Gibans immersed herself in the local and regional arts community. She has been the executive producer of five video programs, three of which have been shown on local public television. Gibans has also served on many panels, boards and ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5446.xml Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5451.xml Samuel H. "Sam" Miller was born on June 26, 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Western Reserve University in Cleveland and earned a scholarship to attend Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he received an MBA. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946. In 1947, Miller joined Forest City Material Company, the precursor to Forest City Enterprises, and was instrumental in the success of Forest City, being credited with spearheading the company's move into land development. Miller was a lifetime honorary trustee of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland and the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and an honorary trustee of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He was a past chair of Israel Bonds and the Cleveland Jewish Welfare Fund. He also served on many boards of trustees, including: Jewish National Fund, Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, WVIZ, Urban League, Cleveland State University, John Carroll University, Baldwin Wallace University, Notre ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5451.xml Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5427.xml The United Order True Sisters Cleveland No. 30, a Jewish women's charitable organization, was a local lodge that was part of the national United Order True Sisters founded in New York in 1846. Founded in November of 1925, the Cleveland lodge's goal was to promote family unity by establishing a day care center for the benefit of the community. The collection consists of awards, booklets, budgets, bulletins, bylaws, a calendar, a cookbook, correspondence, a journal, flyers, manuals, membership books, minutes, newspaper clippings, notebooks, poems, a proclamation, reports, scrapbooks, sheet music, and speech text. There are also approximately 50 black and white 300 color photographs. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5427.xml Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5241.xml Young Israel of Greater Cleveland is a Cleveland, Ohio, branch of the Jewish congregation of Young Israel, a Zionist Orthodox organization that has branch synagogues throughout the United States. The collection consists of advertisements, almanacs, awards, booklets, correspondence, dues cards, lists, minutes, publications, and reports. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5241.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT