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1Title:  Menorah Park, Jewish Home for Aged Records     
 Creator:  Menorah Park, Jewish Home for Aged 
 Dates:  1906-1968 
 Abstract:  Menorah Park was established in 1906 as the Jewish Orthodox Old Home in Cleveland, Ohio. It became one of the five largest old age homes in the country by 1940. The name was changed to the Jewish Orthodox Home for Aged in 1950. The prefix Menorah Park was added in the 1960s. The collections consists of constitutions, minutes, admission applications, naturalization certificates, correspondence, financial records, reports, legal documents, publications, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks. 
 Call #:  MS 3741 
 Extent:  24.70 linear feet (16 containers, 85 oversize volumes, and 2 oversize folders) 
 Subjects:  Menorah Park, Jewish Home for Aged (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jewish old age homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Older people -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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2Title:  Montefiore Home Records     
 Creator:  Montefiore Home 
 Dates:  1880-1976 
 Abstract:  The Montefiore Home was established in 1882 in Cleveland, Ohio, by the Kesher Shel Barzel Order (Band of Iron), District Grand Lodge No. 4, and called the Aged and Infirm Israelites Home. In 1884 it was renamed the Sir Moses Montefiore Kesher Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites. In 1923 it became simply the Montefiore Home. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, administrative reports and records, staff memos and lists, departmental reports, records of auxiliary organizations, residents files, audits, ledgers and other financial records, and subject files relating to the Home's interaction with other agencies such as the Association of Ohio Philanthropic Homes for Aged, Inc., the Jewish Community Federation, the Jewish Family Service Association, United Appeal of Greater Cleveland, the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, the White House Conference on Aging, and Julius and Helen Weil. 
 Call #:  MS 3835 
 Extent:  17.10 linear feet (13 containers, 12 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Montefiore Home (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social work with older people -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Jewish old age homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Older people -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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3Title:  Montefiore Home Records, Series II     
 Creator:  Montefiore Home 
 Dates:  1885-1972 
 Abstract:  Montefiore Home is a home for aged and infirm Jews of Cleveland, Ohio, which was founded in 1882 as the Aged and Infirm Israelites Home, was renamed the Sir Moses Montefiore Kesher Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites in 1884, and, in 1923, Montefiore Home. The collection consists of trustee minutes, directors' reports, social service and financial reports, building and expansion plans, studies of Jewish aged, a newsletter written by the residents, and a guest book. The collection is valuable to the study of the institutional care of the aged and the contributions of Julius and Helen Weil to the Home. Also included is a letter written by Moses Montefiore to the Home in 1885. Montefiore (1784-1885) was a famed Anglo-Jewish philanthropist and advocate of civil rights for Jews in England and a precursor of modern Zionism. 
 Call #:  MS 4455 
 Extent:  1.20 linear feet (2 containers) 
 Subjects:  Montefiore Home (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social work with the aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Old age homes, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish aged -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish aged -- United States.
 
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4Title:  Montefiore Home Records, Series III     
 Creator:  Montefiore Home 
 Dates:  1942-1991 
 Abstract:  The Montefiore Home is a Jewish nursing home for aged and infirm Jews of Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1882 as the Aged and Infirm Israelites Home, was renamed the Sir Moses Montefiore Kesher Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites in 1884, and, in 1923, Montefiore Home. In the 1940s, Montefiore converted from providing residential care to social and psychological rehabilitation, including day care, social workers, a psychiatric unit, and sheltered workshop. An Auxiliary was formed in 1956-57 to help support Montefiore. In 1991 Montefiore, now a skilled nursing facility, moved to a new $22 million, 240-bed complex in Beachwood, Ohio. The collection consists of annual meeting materials, trustee minutes, building expansion plans, new building materials, publications, reports, and journal reprints. 
 Call #:  MS 4662 
 Extent:  1.01 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Montefiore Home (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Old age homes, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish aged -- United States. | Jewish aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aged -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work with the aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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5Title:  Julius and Helen K. Weil Papers, Series II     
 Creator:  Weil, Julius and Helen K. 
 Dates:  1908-1991 
 Abstract:  Julius and Helen K. Weil were German-born Jews who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1941 where their achievements in geriatric social work earned them national recognition. Julius served as executive director (1941-1968), and Helen as director of social services (1943-1968), at Montefiore Home, an old age home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. They then joined the staff of the Cornelius Schnurmann House, a housing community for senior citizens in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, as executive director and social services director. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence (in English and German), family records, patents, a doctoral dissertation, writings, and restitution claims. The family records, in German, for the Kahn and Weil families include inofrmation on births and deaths, a list of Holocaust victims, and a Weil family history. The restitution claims files cover claims made to the Federal German Republic by Helen and Julus Weil, and by Hermine Cahn, Helen's sister, for losses suffered in Germany during the government of the National Socialists. 
 Call #:  MS 4735 
 Extent:  1.00 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Weil, Julius, 1902-1989. | Weil, Helen K. (Helen Kahn), 1902- | Montefiore Home (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews, German -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Refugees, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aged. | Aged -- Institutional care. | Social work with the aged. | Jewish aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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