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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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