http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?subject%3DJews%20--%20United%20States%20--%20Ohio%20--%20Cleveland%20--%20History%20--%2020th%20century.;subject-join%3Dexact;smode%3Dsimple;brand%3Ddefault Results for your query: subject=Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- 20th century.;subject-join=exact;smode=simple;brand=default Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4905.xml Bea Horwitz Stadtler (1921-2000) was a prominent author who lived and worked in the Cleveland, Ohio, metropolitan area for her entire life. Graduating from Glenville High School, she attended Case Western Reserve University and the College of Jewish Studies, obtaining the first Bachelor of Judaica Studies degree awarded by the College of Jewish Studies in 1971. Stadtler served as an educator at B'nai Jeshurun Congregation, Beth Sholom, the Cleveland Hebrew Schools, and the Temple-Tifereth Israel. Stadtler served as registrar at the College of Jewish Studies from 1960-1983 and as assistant editor of the Israel Philatelist. She was active in the Cleveland Holocaust Center. The author of six books and articles, stories and poems that appeared in more that twenty different publications, she also co-wrote a rock opera and created an award-winning filmstrip. Her book The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance received the National Book Council prize for the outstanding juvenile book of 1974-1975. She work... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4905.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4895.xml Beth Am Congregation, a Conservative Jewish congregation in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was founded in 1933 as the Community Temple by Rabbi Abraham Nowak and a group who belonged to B'nai Jeshurun Congregation (then known as Temple on the Heights). The founders wanted their new synagogue to be more welcoming to all Jews, regardless of their wealth or status. The congregation established administrative offices at 241 Euclid Avenue; services and school classes were held at Coventry School in Cleveland Heights. After meeting at several rented locations, the congregation purchased a large house on Washington Boulevard. By 1940, however, the need was seen for a permanent structure, and a building fund was established. In 1947 Beth Am purchased the Trinity Congregational Church at 3557 Washington Boulevard. The new rabbi, Jack J. Herman, was named the same year. The congregation continued to grow, and by 1956 had 600 families with 500 students in the religious school. A fire in 1957 destroyed much of the lower level ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4895.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4904.xml Beth Israel - The West Temple (f. 1954) is a Reform Jewish synagogue located in Cleveland, Ohio's west side. A noted feature of this congregation is its volunteerism. For the first forty-five years of its history, all posts and jobs, with the exception of rabbi, were staffed by volunteers. This included the principal, administrator, teachers, and aides of the religious school; the librarians, office managers and secretaries; youth group advisors; and interfaith and community education coordinators. Approximately one-third of the congregation made this commitment to volunteer several hours a week throughout the year. Another fifteen percent of the congregation volunteered periodically throughout the year serving as choir director, choir members, and music accompanist; worship leaders and cantors; bulletin editors; and building repair and maintenance workers. The collection consists of minutes, bulletins, correspondence, reports, handbooks, newspaper clippings, program scripts, speeches, and transcripts. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4904.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4892.xml Blanche Rohrheimer Halle (1878-1960) and her husband Eugene S. Halle (1875-1951) were descendants of pioneer immigrant antebellum German-Jewish families in Cleveland, Ohio. Their ancestry included, in addition to Halle and Rohrheimer, the Hays and Weil families. Eugene S. Halle was an investment banker and an early member of the Cleveland Stock Exchange. Both Eugene and Blanche Halle were active and generous philanthropists. The collection consists of an "in memoriam" scrapbook containing certificates, photographs, and correspondence regarding the community contributions made by the Halles. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4892.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4874.xml Chevrei Tikva, a religious congregation organized to meet the needs of gay, lesbian, and transgendered Jews, was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1983. The name Chevrei Tikva (Hebrew for "friends of hope") was chosen in Hovember 1983. Religious services were initially held in members' homes. From 1984-1989 the group met at The Civic, 3130 Mayfield Road, in Cleveland Heights. The congregation acquired its Torah scroll in 1986, and introduced varied programming, including Sabbath and holiday services, Passover seders, house dedications, and baby namings. In 1989 the congregation moved its services to the Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland, 2728 Lancashire Road, in Cleveland Heights, and also affiliated with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, which is the synagogue association of the Reform movement. In 2001 Rachel Rembrandt, a graduate of Hebrew Union College, became the congregations' first permanent rabbi. The collection consists of newsletters, minutes, program flyers, lists, correspondence... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4874.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4893.xml Jacob Mintz (1867-1947) was a prominent private detective in Cleveland, Ohio, for over fifty years. Native to Cleveland, Mintz was descended on his father's side from Polish Jewish immigrants of the 1850s and Prussian Jewish immigrants of the 1860s on his mother's side. Mintz was a picturesque, high-profile professional during his successful career. A number of his jobs involved major events of the era. He served as bodyguard to Carrie Nation, the anti-drinking crusader, when she spoke in Cleveland in 1901. That same year, Mintz escorted the immediate family of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, to Buffalo, New York, to visit him in the days immediately after the assassination. The collection consists of business records, correspondence, and two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings regarding Jacob Mintz and newspaper clippings and a program regarding his son, Carl Mintz. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4893.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4837.xml Jacob Muskin (1920-1990) was a Cleveland, Ohio, rabbi affiliated with the Orthodox movement of Judaism. Born in Chicago, Muskin attended the Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore. After World War II, he was the associate national director of Va-ad Ha-Hatzalah (the rescue committee, in Hebrew), an organization that saved children and scholars from the Holocaust. He began his pulpit career in Cleveland as the rabbi of the Kinsman Jewish Center in 1950, where he established the first synagogue-sponsored nursery school in the city. In 1959 he helped to orchestrate the merger of Kinsman Jewish Center with other small Orthodox congregations to form Warrensville Center Synagogue in Cleveland Heights. He served as rabbi at Warrensville Center Synagogue until his death in 1990. Muskin was active in many local Jewish organizations. He served on the Kashruth Board, the chaplaincy committee, and the Central Fund for Traditional Institutions, all of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland. He was on the board ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4837.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4890.xml Jacob Shtull (1926-2002) served as rabbi of Shaarey Tikvah Congregation (Gates of Hope, Mayfield Temple, Mayfield Hillcrest Synagogue) in Beachwood, Ohio, from 1958-1992. After his retirement he served as Emeritus Rabbi of the congregation. Born in Montreal, Canada, he studied there at Sir George William College and then at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New Ork, where he received his rabbinical ordination in 1953. His first pulpits were in Canada with Congregation B'nai Israel in London, Ontario, from 1953 to 1956, and at Congregation Beth Am, Downsview, Ontario, from 1956-1957. The collection consists of correspondence, lectures, sermons, bulletins, newspaper clippings, notes, and reports. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4890.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4894.xml The Joseph Family is a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish family. Moritz Joseph arrived in the United States in 1853 from Gauersheim, Rheinpfalz, Germany, during the nineteenth-century German-Jewish immigration period. Settling in Cleveland in 1872, Joseph became successful in the manufacturing ofmen's clothing incorporating that operation as the Joseph and Feiss Company in 1907. The company, formed out of previously operating businesses, was one of the largest manufacturers of men's clothing in the United States. Moritz Joseph married Jette Selig in 1853; the marriage produced four sons. Three of them, Isaac, Fred, and Siegmund, and Siegmund's son Ralph, worked all or part of their careers with the Joseph and Feiss Company. The foruth son, Emil, Emil's son Frank E., and Frank E.'s son William R., became lawyers after graduating from Columbia University Law School. Frank E. Joseph was a promient lawyer and a partner at the Jones, Day, Cockley, & Reavis law firm. The family has been very active in both leader... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4894.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4891.xml The Workmen's Circle of Cleveland (f. 1904) is a secular Jewish fraternal organization formed in the United States to perpetuate Yiddish language and culture, support and promote the liberal political agenda, offer both health and death benefits, and provide a meeting place for fellowship. Its Yiddish cultural programming includes lectures, readings, concerts, third Passover seders, and the I.L. Peretz Workmen's Circle School, a supplementary program for children. Branch 1030, one of a number of Cleveland, Ohio, branches, was the first English speaking branch and was founded in 1939. Following World War II and the Holocaust and the continuing acculturation into American life of the descendants of its Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrant founders, the Workmen's Circle, in Cleveland and nationwide, has been experiencing significant and continuous loss of membership. The Workmen's Circle's group health plan and death benefits, both of which are available on a non-sectarian basis, are the major source of membershi... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4891.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT