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1	Title:	Benjamin S. Gerson Family Foundation
	Creator:	Benjamin S. Gerson Family Foundation
	Dates:	1997-2000
	Abstract:	The Benjamin S. Gerson Family Foundation was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, as a charitable fund in 1968 by Eleanor Rosenfeld Gerson (1915-2000) and her husband Benjamin S. Gerson (1911-1972). It was converted to a private family foundation in 1973 in memory of Benjamin Gerson. The foundation dissolved in 2004. The collection consists of budgets, correspondence, evaluations, financial statements, and grant proposals, and project reports.
	Call #:	MS 5271
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Gerson, Benjamin S., 1911-1973. \| Gerson, Eleanor Rosenfeld, 1916-2000 \| Gerson family. \| Philanthropy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
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2	Title:	Gerson-Margolis Foundation Records
	Creator:	Gerson-Margolis Foundation
	Dates:	1997-2000
	Abstract:	The Gerson-Margolis Foundation was incorporated in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1996 by Eleanor Rosenfeld Gerson (1915-2000) and her daughter, Margaret Gerson Margolis with part of the assets of the Benjamin S. Gerson Family Foundation. Upon the death of Eleanor Gerson, the name of the foundation was changed to the Ellie Fund. The Ellie Fund terminated in 2012. The collection consists of budgets, correspondence, financial reports, and grant proposals.
	Call #:	MS 5272
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Gerson, Eleanor Rosenfeld, 1916-2000 \| Gerson family. \| Philanthropy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations \| Margolis, Margaret Gerson.
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3	Title:	Ellie Fund Records
	Creator:	Ellie Fund
	Dates:	2001-2010
	Abstract:	The Ellie Fund was created in 2001 in Cleveland, Ohio, when the Gerson-Margolis Foundation changed its name in memory of Eleanor Rosenfeld Gerson. The foundation terminated in 2012. The collection consists of grant proposals and attachments for projects approved and declined for funding at foundation board meetings. These include budgets, correspondence, evaluations, financial statements, and grant proposals.
	Call #:	MS 5273
	Extent:	2.00 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Gerson, Eleanor Rosenfeld, 1916-2000 \| Gerson family. \| Philanthropy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations \| Margolis, Margaret Gerson.
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4	Title:	Eleanor Rosenfeld Gerson Family Papers
	Creator:	Gerson, Eleanor Rosenfeld Family
	Dates:	1817-1993
	Abstract:	Eleanor Rosenfeld Gerson continued her family's tradition of activism in Jewish and other educational, philanthropic, and social service organizations in Cleveland, Ohio. She served as a trustee and chairperson of the School on Magnolia, an alternative school, from 1973-1982. In 1985 the school was renamed the Eleanor Gerson School. Other organizations she was active in included the American Civil Liberties Union of Greater Cleveland, the Women's Community Foundation, the Jewish Family Service Association, the Jewish Community Federation, Mount Sinai Hospital, the Free Clinic of Greater Cleveland, the Heights Area Project, and the Cleveland Scholarship Program. Eleanor Rosenfeld married Benjamin Gerson in 1937, and had four children. She was the great-granddaughter of Edward Lazarus and Henrietta Wilmersdorfer Rosenfeld, who had immigrated to New York City from Uhlfeld, Germany in the mid-nineteenth century. Their son, Louis Rosenfeld, married Frederica Fatman, daughter of Joseph Fatman, in 1874. Joseph Fatman and his brother, Aaron, were owners of the firm of Fatman and Company, tobacco dealers. In December 1862, they were among the thirty Jewish merchants ordered out of Paducah, Kentucky, in the Department of the Tennessee by General U.S. Grant's Order Number 11. Eleanor Gerson's parents, Edward Lazarus and Bertha Rosenfeld, moved to Cleveland from New York City in 1925. Edward was an executive in his father-in-law Emanuel Rosenfeld's firm, Grabler Manufacturing Company. He was also active on the boards of many Jewish social service organizations. Bertha Rosenfeld was a founder of the Council of Jewish Women's Jewish Big Sister organization, and was active in other Jewish and women's groups. Bertha's parents, Emanuel and Lena Rosenfeld, came to Cleveland in the 1870s from Germany and were members of Temple Tifereth Israel. Lena Rosenfeld was an active member of the Cleveland Section, National Council of Jewish Women and The Temple's Women's Association. The collection consists of correspondence, legal and genealogical documents, diaries, account books, and newspaper and other clippings of the Rosenfeld, Fatman, and Gerson family members. Of particular interest to Civil War historians are contemporaneous documents relating to General Grant's Order Number 11 which expelled Jews from areas in the jurisdiction of the Department of the Tennessee.
	Call #:	MS 4660
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Gerson, Eleanor Rosenfeld, 1916-2000 \| Rosenfeld family. \| Gerson family. \| Fatman family. \| Fatman, Joseph. \| Gerson, Benjamin S., 1911-1973. \| Rosenfeld, Edward Lazarus, 1817-1891. \| Rosenfeld, Louis, 1848-1901. \| Rosenfeld, Edward Lazarus, 1875-1947. \| Rosenfeld, Bertha, 1881-1959. \| Rosenfeld, Frederica Fatman. \| United States. Army. Dept. of the Tennessee. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- New York City. \| Jews, German -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. \| Women in charitable work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Jews.
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