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 Title:  Jewish Community Center of Cleveland Records     
 Creator:  Jewish Community Center of Cleveland 
 Dates:  1899-1966 
 Abstract:  The Jewish Community Center of Cleveland, Ohio, was formed in 1948 by the merger of the Council Educational Alliance (est. 1899), Camp Wise (est. 1907), the Jewish Young Adult Bureau (est. 1939), and the Cultural Department of the Jewish Community Council (est. 1945), for the purpose of providing recreational social and cultural programs to Cleveland's Jewish community. By 1959 the center moved from Cleveland to the suburb of Cleveland Heights. The collection consists of minutes, reports, administrative files, financial records, and other records of the Jewish Community Center, the Council Educational Alliance, and the Jewish Young Adult Bureau, and camp applications, historical material and other records of Camp Wise. 
 Call #:  MS 3668 
 Extent:  49.60 linear feet (47 containers) 
 Subjects:  Jewish Community Center of Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Recreation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Yiddish drama -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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 Title:  Jewish Community Center of Cleveland Records and Photographs, Series IV     
 Creator:  Jewish Community Center of Cleveland 
 Dates:  1917-2000 
 Abstract:  The Jewish Community Center of Cleveland, Ohio, was formed in 1948 by the merger of the Council Educational Alliance (est. 1899), Camp Wise (est. 1907), the Jewish Young Adult Bureau (est. 1939), and the Cultural Department of the Jewish Community Council (est. 1945), for the purpose of providing recreational social and cultural programs to Cleveland's Jewish community. By 1959 the center moved from Cleveland to the suburb of Cleveland Heights. The collection includes awards, booklets, bulletins, correspondence, fliers, handbooks, invitations, lists, manuals, memorabilia, music, newspaper clippings, approximately 540 black and white and color photographs and slides, proclamations, program books, programs, scrapbooks, and scripts. 
 Call #:  MS 5388 
 Extent:  4.61 linear feet (7 containers) 
 Subjects:  Jewish community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Recreation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews, Soviet -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Refugees, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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 Title:  Jewish Community Center of Cleveland Records, Series II     
 Creator:  Jewish Community Center of Cleveland 
 Dates:  1899-1992 
 Abstract:  The Jewish Community Center of Cleveland was formed in 1948 by the merger of the Council Educational Alliance (est. 1899), Camp Wise (est. 1907), the Jewish Young Adult Bureau (est. 1939), and the Cultural Department of the Jewish Community Council (est. 1945), for the purpose of providing recreational social and cultural programs to Cleveland, Ohio's Jewish community. By 1959 the center moved from Cleveland to the suburb of Cleveland Heights. A second building was constructed in Beachwood, Ohio, in 1986. The collection consists of minutes, programs, and reports. 
 Call #:  MS 4696 
 Extent:  11.0 linear feet (11 containers) 
 Subjects:  Jewish Community Center of Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Jews -- Recreation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews, Soviet -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Refugees, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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 Title:  Jewish Community Center of Cleveland Records, Series III     
 Creator:  Jewish Community Center of Cleveland 
 Dates:  1948-1998 
 Abstract:  The Jewish Community Center of Cleveland, Ohio, was formed in 1948 by the merger of the Council Educational Alliance (est. 1899), Camp Wise (est. 1907), the Jewish Young Adult Bureau (est. 1939), and the Cultural Department of the Jewish Community Council (est. 1945), for the purpose of providing recreational, social, and cultural programs to Cleveland's Jewish community. By 1959 the center moved from Cleveland to the suburb of Cleveland Heights. The collection consists of scrapbooks that contain primarily newspaper clippings. 
 Call #:  MS 4927 
 Extent:  7.00 linear feet (41 volumes) 
 Subjects:  Jewish community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Refugees, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews, Soviet -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Recreation -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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 Title:  Joseph Family Papers, Series II     
 Creator:  Joseph Family 
 Dates:  1883-2000 
 Abstract:  The Joseph family is a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish family. Moritz Joseph arrived in the United States in 1852 from Gauersheim, Rheinpfalz, Germany. Settling in Cleveland in 1872, Joseph became successful in the manufacture of men's clothing. The Joseph and Feiss Company was incorporated in 1907, and was one of the largest manufacturers of men's clothing in the United States. Moritz Joseph's son Emil became a lawyer, and Emil's son, Frank, was partner at the law firm of Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis. Frank E. Joseph and his wife, Martha, were also active philanthropists. The couple's son, William R. Joseph, Sr. continues to be active in the community. The collection consists of awards, correspondence, diaries, diplomas, genealogies, guest lists, inventories, news clippings, newsletters, legal records, notebooks, programs, scrapbooks, and assorted writings. 
 Call #:  MS 5055 
 Extent:  4.01 linear feet (4 containers and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Joseph, Emil, 1857-1938. | Joseph, Frank E., 1904-1995. | Joseph, Martha J., 1917-2006. | Joseph, William R., 1946- | Joseph family. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
 
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 Title:  Faye Sholiton Papers     
 Creator:  Sholiton, Faye 
 Dates:  1943-2004 
 Abstract:  Faye Sholiton (b. 1948) is a Cleveland, Ohio-area playwright. Prior to writing plays, she was an award-winning journalist for local, regional and national publications, including the Cleveland Jewish News. She served as president of the Society of Professional Journalists from 1993-1994. Sholiton is a graduate of Shaker Heights High School, and she holds a master's degree in French language and literature from George Washington University. Sholiton's full-length works have been read or produced in more than three dozen venues throughout the country and have won more than twenty national honors. She has developed her work in the Cleveland Play House Playwrights' Unit since 1996 and in Dobama Theatre's Playwrights' Gym since 2009. She is a three-time winner of Individual Artist Grants from the Ohio Arts Council, and her plays have also won awards from the Dayton FutureFest, the Midwest Theatre Network New Play Festival, the Charlotte Festival of New American Plays, and the William & Arlene Lewis New Play Contest. Sholiton's works are largely about Jewish life in Cleveland. Her most successful plays, The Interview and V-E Day, relate to the history of World War II. The collection consists of of articles, correspondence, drafts, flier, newsletters, newspaper clippings, programs, proposals, scripts, and transcripts. 
 Call #:  MS 5144 
 Extent:  0.60 linear feet (2 containers) 
 Subjects:  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Drama | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- 20th century. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama | World War, 1939-1945 -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
 
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