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1	Title:	Anthony A. Granata Papers
	Creator:	Granata, Anthony A.
	Dates:	1969-1981
	Abstract:	Anthony A. Granata (b. 1912) was a Cleveland, Ohio, musician who was President of Local 4 of the American Federation of Musicians. He was instrumental in the creation and administration of the Music Performance Trust Fund. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes by Bill Miller of the Plain Dealer for his article on Granata's retirement, and pamphlets on the Music Performance Trust Fund and the American Music Conference.
	Call #:	MS 3863
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Granata, Anthony A., 1912- \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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2	Title:	Cleveland Music Group Records
	Creator:	Anastasia Pantsios
	Dates:	1989-1998
	Abstract:	The Cleveland Music Group was a nonprofit, member-supported organization whose mission was to promote and assist Cleveland, Ohio, musicians both locally and nationally. During the 1990s the group conducted periodic educational forums on topics related to the music business as well as a monthly songwriters workshop at Peabody's Down Under in the Flats. The 150-member group consisted of music industry insiders, sound engineers, journalists and photographers, agents and club owners, radio personalities and musicians. The collection consists of board minutes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, financial documents, lists, newsletters, ephemera (including event flyers and tickets), and press releases.
	Call #:	MS 5288
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Rock music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Music -- Economic aspects -- United States
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3	Title:	Amateur Music Makers Records
	Creator:	Amateur Music Makers
	Dates:	1959-1964
	Abstract:	The Amateur Music Makers was a network of nonprofessional musicians in Cleveland, Ohio, sponsored by the Cleveland Public Library. Members, many of whom were immigrants, used the network to meet other musicians and to play informally in community orchestras, bands, and chamber groups. The collection consists of correspondence, directories, meeting minutes, and membership lists.
	Call #:	MS 5297
	Extent:	1.60 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Cleveland Public Library \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musical groups -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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4	Title:	Jack Saul Audio Visual Collection
	Creator:	Gift of Hinda Saul
	Dates:	1923-2004
	Abstract:	Jack Saul was born in 1923 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a significant collector of classical music recordings, memorabilia, and ephemera related to the performing arts. Saul supported musical groups of all kinds throughout the greater Cleveland, Ohio, area, including Jewish music. Saul died at age 86 in 2009. The Jack Saul Audio Visual Collection consists of newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, records, reels, and tapes.
	Call #:	MS 5455
	Extent:	4.4 linear feet (5 boxes)
	Subjects:	Saul, Jack -- Photographs \| Live sound recordings -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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5	Title:	Showman's art marks Brigode as leader: hard training under canvas built foundation for success : sense of dramatic values and music make band great today
	Parent:	Orchestra world v. 6, no. 5 (Jan. 1931)
	Publication:
	Notes:	Caption title.
	Call #:	Pam. Z2064 Oversize
	Extent:	p. 3, 24 : ill. ; 31 cm.
	Subjects:	Brigode, Ace, -- 1893-1960 \| Danceland (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Conductors (Music) -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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6	Title:	Edwin Arthur Kraft Papers
	Creator:	Kraft, Edwin Arthur
	Dates:	1901-1965
	Abstract:	Edwin Arthur Kraft (1883-1962) was the organist of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio (1907-1959) and Director of Music at Lake Erie College (1933-1951). His second wife, Marie Simmelink, was a vocal soloist at the First Baptist Church in Cleveland (1920-1934) and at The Temple (1934-), and head of the Vocal Dept. of the Cleveland Institute of Music (1949-1963). The collection consists of correspondence, programs, publicity, articles, news clippings, biographical sketches, obituaries, and other materials pertaining to the musical careers of Edwin A. and Marie S. Kraft.
	Call #:	MS 3619
	Extent:	3.61 linear feet (5 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Kraft, Edwin Arthur, 1883-1962. \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Organists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women singers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Singers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Music teachers -- Ohio.
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7	Title:	Cleveland Federation of Musicians Records
	Creator:	Cleveland Federation of Musicians
	Dates:	1888-1965
	Abstract:	The Cleveland Federation of Musicians was established in 1877 as the Musicians Mutual Protective Association. In 1895 the Association joined the American Federation of Musicians and became A.F.M. Local 4. African American members left to form their own local, No. 550, in 1910, but reunited with Local 4, also known as the Cleveland Federation of Musicians, in 1962. Establishment of minimum wages and protection of its members were the union's main goals. Women musicians were given equal protection after being admitted to the union in 1901. Other union activities included support of other unions, publication of the Cleveland Musician, and sponsorship of the Druid Club. The collection consists of constitutions, minutes, correspondence, financial records, wage scale directories, membership lists, material on the 1935 trial of a union member, beneficiary notices, contracts, issues of the Cleveland Musician, scrapbooks, miscellaneous material, and records of the Druid Club.
	Call #:	MS 3718
	Extent:	13.55 linear feet (7 containers, 29 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Cleveland Federation of Musicians. \| Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musicians -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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8	Title:	Anton F. Machan Family Papers
	Creator:	Machan, Anton F. Family
	Dates:	1887-1945
	Abstract:	Anton Machan was a Czech immigrant to Cleveland, Ohio, who became a leader in the Czech community, music director of the Hlahol, La Salle and Krivan Singing societies, and a successful proprietor of his own music school. His son Leon was a pianist with the Cleveland Orchestra and a cellist with the Bohemian and Cleveland String Quartets. His other son, Benjamin, was a pianist with the Chicago Opera and the Chautauqua Circuit. His daughters Berthe and Antoinette were music instructors. The collection consists of music written by Machan, his copy books and address book, and material relating to other family members, including handwritten manuscripts, printed music, copy books, an address book, a scrapbook, a family genealogy and correspondence.
	Call #:	MS 3983
	Extent:	1.50 linear feet (5 containers)
	Subjects:	Machan, Anton F., 1859-1935. \| Machan family. \| Czech Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Music teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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9	Title:	The music history of organists and music directors and Cathedral historical trivia of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Cleveland, Ohio
	Creator:	Lucas, Matthew A.
		Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Cleveland, Ohio)
	Publication:	Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Cleveland, Ohio,1995.
	Call #:	Pam. L559
	Extent:	66 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
	Subjects:	Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Cleveland, Ohio) -- History \| Church music -- Catholic Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history
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10	Title:	Marguerite Sanford Warner Papers
	Creator:	Warner, Marguerite Sanford
	Dates:	1925-1980
	Abstract:	Marguerite Sanford Warner (1890-1978) devoted her life to music within the Cleveland, Ohio, African American community. During her career she gave private lessons in both piano and organ, served as the regular organist for at least five churches in Cleveland, Ohio, including the Antioch Baptist Church from 1934-1944 and 1950-1971, served on the faculty of the Sutphen School of Music at the Phillis Wheatley Association from the 1950s through the 1970s, and made guest appearances throughout the Cleveland area. The collection consists of scrapbooks, correspondence, clippings, and memorabilia including programs, certificates and newsletters. The collection pertains primarily to Warner's musical career and involvement in the African American community in Cleveland, particularly through the Antioch Baptist Church and Sutphen School of Music.
	Call #:	MS 4217
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Warner, Marguerite Sanford, 1890-1978. \| Organists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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11	Title:	Frank Hruby, Sr. Papers
	Creator:	Hruby, Frank Sr.
	Dates:	1880s
	Abstract:	Frank Hruby Sr. (1856-1912) was the founder and patriarch of one of Cleveland, Ohio's leading musical families. A native of Bohemia, he traveled throughout Europe as a musician and conductor before settling in 1884 in Cleveland, where he organized the Great Western Band in 1889. His eight children all became musicians, including several who became members of the Cleveland Orchestra. In 1916, two of his children, Frank (V) and Fred, founded the Hruby Conservatory of Music in Cleveland. The collection consists of fifteen booklets containing handwritten and printed musical arrangements for woodwinds and percussion, including variations of a Frank Hruby (IV) arrangement of "Lifes' Journey O'er."
	Call #:	MS 4567
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Hruby, Frank Sr, 1856-1912. \| Hruby family. \| Great Western Band (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Conductors (Music) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Arrangers (Musicians) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Czech Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Czechs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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12	Title:	Cleveland Irish Musicians Club Records
	Creator:	Cleveland Irish Musicians Club
	Dates:	1976-2000
	Abstract:	The Cleveland Irish Musicians Club was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1976. It is dedicated to the promotion of traditional Irish music and musical instruments and the study of Irish culture, folklore, and history. The collection consists of a constitution, a brochure advertising the Irish Cultural Festival of Cleveland, correspondence, a list of scholarship winners, a magazine, miscellaneous articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a transcript.
	Call #:	MS 4859
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Cleveland Irish Musicians Club. \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Music. \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. \| Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. \| Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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13	Title:	Hyman Gurland Family Papers
	Creator:	Gurland, Hyman Family
	Dates:	1914-1973
	Abstract:	Hyman Gurland was a Russian-born Jew who emigrated to the United States in 1906 and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. A building contractor by trade, Gurland was also a talented musician who performed with the Cleveland Jewish Band from 1914 to 1918. He married Blanche Kaplan, and had three daughters, Gladys, Rita, and Norma. Gladys Gurland was a composer who actively tried to publish her work and succeeded in copyrighting several of her songs. The collection consists of a certificate, newspaper clippings, a notebook, correspondence, a scrapbook, and original scores of songs composed by Gladys Gurland.
	Call #:	MS 5021
	Extent:	1.00 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Gurland, Hyman, 1892-1980. \| Gurland, Blanche Kaplan. \| Gurland, Gladys, 1921-1946. \| Gurland family. \| Cleveland Jewish Band. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Composers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish composers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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14	Title:	Frank Hruby, Sr. Family Papers
	Creator:	Hruby Family
	Dates:	1883-2012
	Abstract:	The Hruby family was one of the most prominent musical families in Cleveland, Ohio, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1883 clarinetist Frank Hruby, Sr. (IV) arrived in Cleveland from Cehnice, Bohemia (now Czech Republic). Frank IV organized and played in many local musical groups, including the Great Western Band, Lakeside, Ohio, summer orchestra, and the Euclid Opera House. He and his wife Katerina had seven children who all became musicians, and who all taught at the Hruby Conservatory of Music, which was located at Broadway Avenue and East 55th Street in Cleveland. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, event programs, family history documents, financial documents, maps, scrapbooks, sheet music, tour itineraries, and travel journals.
	Call #:	MS 5258
	Extent:	2.20 linear feet (7 containers)
	Subjects:	Great Western Band (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Conductors (Music) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Arrangers (Musicians) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Czech Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Czechs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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15	Title:	Frank Hruby, Sr. Family Photographs
	Creator:	Hruby Family
	Dates:	1884-2001
	Abstract:	Frank Hruby Sr. (1856-1812) was the founder and patriarch of one of Cleveland, Ohio's leading musical families. A native of Bohemia, he traveled throughout Europe as a musician and conductor before settling in 1884 in Cleveland, where he organized the Great Western Band in 1889. His eight children all became musicians, including several who became members of the Cleveland Orchestra. In 1916, two of his children, Frank (V) and Fred, founded the Hruby Conservatory of Music in Cleveland. The collection consists of 400 mostly black and white photographs, 280 slides, 100 negatives, and 20 sound recordings (17 records, one cassette, and one reel-to-reel tape).
	Call #:	PG 608
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (4 containers)
	Subjects:	Great Western Band (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Conductors (Music) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Arrangers (Musicians) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Czech Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Czechs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Orchestral music.
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16	Title:	Carmela Caferelli Papers
	Creator:	Cafarelli, Carmela
	Dates:	1912-1976
	Abstract:	Carmela Cafarelli was an Italian-American opera star, founder of an opera company, and accomplished harpist from Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Rocco Cafarelli, was a renowned Italian harpist who had immigrated to Cleveland in the 1880s, and was his daughter's earliest teacher. At the age of eight, she began study with master harpist Henry B. Fabiani in Cleveland. As a harpist, she toured the United States and abroad. She also became a solo harpist for the Cleveland Orchestra. Cafarelli studied voice with William Saal in Cleveland, and later attended the Conservatorie Santa Lucia and the Reale Accademia Filarmonica Romana in Italy, earning diplomas in both voice and harp. After her return to the United States in 1924, she undertook additional musical studies with Benjamino Gigli and Pietro Audisio of the New York Metropolitan Opera. In 1929, she returned to Cleveland, and in 1934, founded the Cafarelli Opera Company. This group toured throughout the United States and put on many charitable performances in Northeast Ohio. Cafarelli stopped performing in 1945, but continued to head her opera company and became a leading philanthropist and promoter of the arts in Cleveland. The collection consists of memoirs; family histories; notes; musical scores and manuscripts of compositions; an address book; correspondence; catalogues; student notebooks; poetry; scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, reviews of performances, and articles; programs; and a travel journal. Included are musical compositions by Carmela Cafarelli; her father, Rocco Cafarelli; and her teacher, Henry B. Fabiani.
	Call #:	MS 4719
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Cafarelli, Carmela. \| Cafarelli, Rocco. \| Fabiani, Henry B. \| Cafarelli Opera Company. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Opera companies -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Opera -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Harpists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Singers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italian American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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17	Title:	Cleveland's musical Hruby family: eighty-five years of leadership in musical performance and instruction in Cleveland, Ohio, 1883 to 1968
	Creator:	Hruby, Frank.
		Hruby, F. Michael.
	Publication:	Mike Hruby], Beachwood, Ohio,2012.
	Notes:	Title from cover.
	Call #:	F34ZUF H873H 2012
	Extent:	19 leaves : ill. (some color) ; 28 cm.
	Subjects:	Hruby family \| Great Western Band (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Hruby Family Orchestra (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Cleveland Orchestra \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Music -- Instruction and study -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Conservatories of music -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Czech Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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18	Title:	Dorothy E. Smith Family Papers
	Creator:	Smith, Dorothy E. Family
	Dates:	1865-1995
	Abstract:	Dorothy E. Smith was a Cleveland, Ohio, African American music teacher and the first African American member of the Cleveland Women's Orchestra. A violinist, she was a 1931 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and was a music teacher at the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the Phillis Wheatley Association, the Friendly Inn Settlement, and Knoxville College. She was also a supervisor for the Ohio State Department of Aid for the Aged until her retirement in 1973. Dorothy E. Smith was the daughter of Joseph W. Smith and Elizabeth Rayner. Joseph W. Smith moved to Cleveland in the late 1880s. He established a barbershop on Central Avenue in Cleveland, managed baseball teams in the 1890s and early 1900s, and was also a musician. The collection consists of correspondence, letters, cards, cemetery records, funeral programs, obituaries, legal files, memberships, a deed, certificates, newspaper clippings, student newspapers, playscripts, postcards, programs, reports, receipts, sheet music, yearbooks, and memorabilia.
	Call #:	MS 4854
	Extent:	1.00 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Smith, Dorothy E. 1905-1995. \| Smith (Dorothy E.) family. \| Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. \| Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. \| Cleveland Women's Orchestra. \| Gilpin Players. \| Central High School (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Knoxville College. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American music teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American soldiers -- Correspondence. \| African American sailors -- Correspondence.
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19	Title:	Laszlo and Susan Krausz Papers
	Creator:	Krausz, Laszlo and Susan
	Dates:	1903-2008
	Abstract:	Laszlo Krausz (1903-1979) and Susan Krausz (1914-2008) were a Jewish couple from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who were accomplished musicians. Laszlo Krausz was born in Pecs, Hungary in 1903. From an early age he studied violin, travelling to Budapest, Vienna, and Paris to continue his education, until settling in Switzerland in 1929 to study viola. Susan Strauss Krausz was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1914. She completed piano studies at the Musikhochschule of Stuttgart and then moved to Switzerland in 1933. Following their 1935 marriage, Laszlo and Susan performed a series of viola-piano sonatas for Radio Geneva before immigrating to the United States in 1947. The Krausz family initially settled in New York where Laszlo accepted a position at the New York College of Music and played with the Carnegie Hall Pops Orchestra. Laszlo was then offered a position with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in the fall of 1947. While a member of the Cleveland Orchestra, Laszlo also founded the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra and conducted both the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra and the Akron Symphony Orchestra. He also pursued the sketching and painting that would become his full-time passion following his retirement from the orchestra in 1969. Laszlo's art was shown at various galleries, including the Butler Museum of Art. Susan Krausz joined the faculty of the Cleveland Music School Settlement upon her arrival in the city, and was awarded her M.A. in music from Western Reserve University in 1956. She continued to perform and compose while also teaching piano at Case Western Reserve University and in her home. The Krauszs had two sons, Peter, who owned a public relations firm in Israel until his death in 1989, and Michael, who is currently a philosophy professor at Bryn Mawr College. The collection consists of academic records, address books, advertisements, agreements, appointment books, art catalogs, artwork, awards, biographical information, calendars, certificates, charts, codes of conduct, contracts, correspondence, datebooks, degrees, diaries, exhibit commentaries, flyers, genealogical charts, itineraries, letters of recommendation, lists, magazine articles, magazine and newspaper clippings, music compositions, naturalization documents, notebooks, notes, passport documents, posters, press releases, programs, publications, a radio script, a recipe book, registers, regulations, repertoire books, resident alien documentation, resumes, reviews, schedules, scrapbooks, sketchbooks, sketches, speeches, telegrams, travel documents, wills, and writings.
	Call #:	MS 5064
	Extent:	25.43 linear feet (21 containers, 10 oversize volumes, and 30 oversize folders)
	Subjects:	Krausz, Lazlo, 1903-1979. \| Krausz, Susan, 1914-2008. \| Krausz, Peter, 1938-1989. \| Krausz, Michael, 1942- \| Krause family. \| Cleveland Orchestra. \| Akron Symphony Orchestra. \| Cleveland Music School Settlement. \| Case Western Reserve University. \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Artists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| College teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Art -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Personal narratives. \| Hungary -- Emigration and immigration. \| Switzerland -- Emigration and immigration. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Emigration and immigration.
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