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The Jewish Community Federation is a central policy making and fundraising agency for the Jewish community of Cleveland, Ohio,
which traces its origin to the Federation of the Jewish Charities of Cleveland (founded 1903). The Federation of the Jewish
Charities of Cleveland changed its name to the Jewish Welfare Federation of Cleveland in 1926, and in 1930, added a fundraising
arm, the Jewish Welfare Fund of Cleveland. In 1951 the Jewish Welfare Federation merged with the Jewish Community Council
to become the Jewish Community Federation. The collection consists of correspondence, trustee and committee minutes and reports,
annual reports, surveys, membership lists, newspaper clippings, publications, research papers, and scrapbooks. The collection
also includes material pertaining to the Federation and its antecedents, as well as to local, national, and international
organizations with which the Federation was involved; and subjects of concern to the local Jewish community including the
Jewish Welfare Fund. Also, there are numerous surveys, as well as a wide range of material relating to local, national, and
international Jewish history.
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