| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1401 | Title: | East End Neighborhood House Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | East End Neighborhood House | | | | Dates: | 1910-1976 | | | | Abstract: | East End Neighborhood House was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1907. It originally offered domestic skills classes and recreational activities to new immigrants principally from Hungary. The Center is a social settlement/community center serving Cleveland's Buckeye-Woodland-Woodhill community. Hungarian during the first half of the century, this area became largely Black during the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout this period, the center adjusted its activities to meet the needs of the area and also to take advantage of newly available federal funds. The programs reflected increased attention to the needs of senior citizens and also included expanded daycare programs and mental-health programs. The collection consists of minutes of the Board of Trustees, membership lists, corporate documents, personnel and director search records, general correspondence, financial records, and general program descriptions and budget statements. The collection pertains to the center's operation and includes material relating to its financial crisis, 1974-76, its search for a black director, and the changing racial composition of the area served by the center. | | | | Call #: | MS 4252 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | East End Neighborhood House (Cleveland, Ohio) | East End Neighborhood Center (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Buckeye-Woodland (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1402 | Title: | New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad Co. Records
| | | | Creator: | New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad Company | | | | Dates: | 1846-1961 | | | | Abstract: | The New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad Company was founded in 1881 to connect Buffalo and Chicago via Cleveland, Ohio. It was nicknamed the Nickel Plate Road. After it failed, it was taken over by the newly organized New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad in 1887. It merged into the Norfolk and Western Railroad in 1964. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, reminiscences, financial records, memoranda, notebooks, ticket stubs, newspaper and magazine clippings, and oversize volumes containing documents and clippings. | | | | Call #: | MS 3575 | | | | Extent: | 8.90 linear feet (13 containers and 22 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad Co. | Nickel Plate Road. | Railroads -- United States.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1403 | Title: | Myron S. Stanford Papers
| | | | Creator: | Stanford, Myron S. | | | | Dates: | 1919-1982 | | | | Abstract: | Myron S. Stanford was a lawyer active in Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish organizations and in the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party. When he immigrated in 1920 from Poland to the United States, his name was Meier Spokojny. By 1921 his name was Meyer Spocony, and by 1929 his name had been changed to Myron Spocony Stanford. From 1941 to 1945, he served as an assistant police prosecutor for the City of Cleveland. He ran unsuccessfully for several political positions. At various times he served as president of the United Jewish Religious Schools, Fairmount Temple Men's Club, B'nai B'rith Mid-Day Lodge, B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, and Masada Chapter, Zionist Organization of America. He chaired the performing arts committee of the Jewish Community Center and was active in Yiddish theater productions there. The collection consists of programs and correspondence relating to Jewish organizations with which Stanford was involved; briefs, book reviews, and scripts written by Stanford; newspaper clippings, diaries, diplomas, awards; and a scrapbook. The collection is particularly strong in materials relating to the Men's Club of Fairmount Temple and the travel diaries detailing Israeli life in the 1950s and Jewish life in Russia, especially Moscow and Leningrad, in the late 1950s and early 1970s. | | | | Call #: | MS 4530 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Stanford, Myron S., 1907-1979. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1404 | Title: | Karl F. Bruch, Jr. Papers
| | | | Creator: | Bruch, Karl F., Jr. | | | | Dates: | 1951-1973 | | | | Abstract: | Karl F. Bruch Jr. was active in church, politics, and civil rights in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, particularly during the 1960s-1970s. He was president of Fair Housing Inc., a real estate company committed to integrating neighborhoods in the Cleveland area. He was also a member of the Greater Cleveland Council of Churches and a director of its Metropolitan Affairs Commission, and the United Presbyterian Church's Synod of Ohio Evangelism and Social Witness and the Commission on Religion and Race. Bruch was also a member of the Fenn College Board of Trustees at the time it was incorporated into Cleveland State University. The collection consists of agendas, minutes of meetings, reports, a roster, newspaper clippings, newsletters, correspondence, announcements, legal documents, press releases, and financial documents. | | | | Call #: | MS 4815 | | | | Extent: | 3.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Bruch, Karl F., Jr. | Fenn College. | Cleveland State University. | United Presbyterian Church of North America. | United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race. | Fair Housing Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) | Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland. | Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Affairs Commission. | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Religious aspects. | Urbanization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Local church councils -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Interdenominational cooperation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1405 | Title: | Rufus Spalding Day, Jr. Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Spalding, Rufus Day Jr. Family | | | | Dates: | 1790-1983 | | | | Abstract: | Rufus Spalding Day, Jr. was a noted Cleveland, Ohio, attorney. A partner of the law firm Squire, Sanders, & Dempsey, he was also an assistant attorney general for Ohio, and was active in many legal and other organizations. He was descended from a family which included several noted lawyers and judges. His father, Rufus S. Day Sr., and his uncle, Luther Day, were founders of the Cleveland law firm Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. Another uncle, William Day, was a federal judge, and a great uncle, Robert H. Day, served on the Ohio Supreme Court. His grandfather, William Rufus Day, was a justice of the United States Supreme Court. William Rufus Day was born in Ravenna, Ohio, attended the University of Michigan, was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1872, and practiced law in Canton, Ohio. He served as judge of the Court of Common Pleas 1886-1890 and was appointed assistant Secretary of State in 1897. As Secretary of State in the cabinet of President William A. McKinley, he negotiated the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War. He served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court 1903-1922. The collection consists of correspondence, invitations, a diary, an account book, a scrapbook, biographical sketches, a notebook, articles, writings, addresses, obituaries, publications, and certificates. Most of the material relates to William Rufus Day. | | | | Call #: | MS 4672 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Day, Rufus Spalding, Jr., 1913-1983. | Day, William R. (William Rufus), 1849-1923. | Day, Rufus Spalding, Sr. | Spalding, Rufus P. (Rufus Paine), 1798-1886. | Day family. | United States. Supreme Court. | Lawyers -- Ohio. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Judges -- United States. | Cabinet officers -- United States.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1407 | Title: | Abba Hillel Silver Papers, Series III
| | | | Creator: | Silver, Abba Hillel | | | | Dates: | 1916-1945 | | | | Abstract: | Abba Hillel Silver was the rabbi of Temple-Tifereth Israel, Cleveland, Ohio, and an international leader of the Zionist movement. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, memoranda, reports, bulletins, press releases, publications, mainly related to Silver's work with the American Zionist Emergency Council, 1943-1945 and the United Palestine Appeal, 1934-1945. Additionally, the collection contains correspondence with Emanuel Newmann, Cyrus Sulzberger, and Sumner Welles, from the early 1940s; Zionist correspondence and memoranda related to the Zionist Organization of America, 1917-1934; correspondence and memoranda related to unemployment insurance, 1921-1937; and general correspondence, 1916-1937. The documents contain some notes in Hebrew, presumably written by Dr. Noach Orian, an Israeli researcher. The collection includes material related to the response of American Jewish leadership to the rise of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust and the rescue of European Jewry, Jewish settlement in Palestine, and anti-semitism in America. Also included is a letter from David Ben Gurion to Justice L. Brandeis on the history of relations between Jews and Arabs in Palestine; a statement by Rabbi Silver concerning contention over division of funds raised for the United Palestine Appeal, the Joint Distribution Committee, and the National Refugee Service; an interview with Henry Morgenthau by Dr. Bernard Joseph regarding conditions in Palestine under the British High Commissioner; and, a report by Chaim Weizmann on a meeting with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. | | | | Call #: | MS 4928 | | | | Extent: | 2.01 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Silver, Abba Hillel, 1893-1963 | American Zionist Emergency Council | United Palestine Appeal (U.S.) | Zionist Organization of America | Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers | National Refugee Service (U.S.) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jews -- United States | Jews -- Palestine | Rabbis -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Zionism | Zionism -- United States | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue | Jewish-Arab relations | Refugees, Jewish | Jewish question | Insurance, Unemployment -- United States | Antisemitism -- United States | Palestine -- Emigration and immigration | Palestine -- Politics and government -- 1917-1948
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1408 | Title: | Ostendorf-Morris Company Records and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Ostendorf-Morris Company | | | | Dates: | 1934-1978 | | | | Abstract: | The Ostendorf-Morris Company was a commercial real estate firm founded in 1939 by Edgar L. Ostendorf (1889-1977) and Warren L. Morris (1888-1973). The company was established to manage industrial and office space in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, and eventually expanded to offer financial services and property development. The collection consists of correspondence, drawings, project files, and photographs. | | | | Call #: | MS 5386 | | | | Extent: | 1.02 linear feet (2 containers and 2 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Buildings, structures, etc. | Tower East (Cleveland, Ohio) | Office buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Commercial real estate -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Terminal Tower Complex (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1410 | Title: | Park Synagogue (Anshe Emeth-Beth Tefilo) Records
| | | | Creator: | Park Synagogue (Anshe Emeth-Beth Tefilo) | | | | Dates: | 1888-1995 | | | | Abstract: | Park Synagogue, one of the largest Conservative Jewish synagogues in the world, was founded in 1869 in Cleveland, Ohio, as Anshe Emeth Congregation by twelve Jewish immigrant families from Poland. In 1904, the congregation engaged its first English speaking rabbi, Samuel Margolies. Anshe Emeth merged with Congregation Beth Tefilo ca. 1916, and a large synagogue was built for the combined congregation on East 105th Street in 1922. That same year, Rabbi Solomon Goldman, a well known scholar, teacher, and activist, was hired. He led the congregation into the ranks of Conservative Judaism. In 1934, the congregation engaged one of its own confirmands, Armond E. Cohen, as rabbi. The synagogue, popularly called the Cleveland Jewish Center, became a focus of Jewish life in the Glenville area, serving the social, intellectual, and recreational needs, as well as the religious, of its members; one of the first synagogues in the United States combining all of these facilities in one structure. Following the eastward movement of Cleveland's Jewish population, property on Mayfield Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was purchased in 1942 from the private Park School. In 1950, Park Synagogue (as the congregation came to be known) dedicated a new building, designed by Eric Mendelsohn. In 1969, Kangesser Hall, a 2,000 seat auditorium, was dedicated. When B'rith Emeth Congregation ceased operations in 1988, their Pepper Pike, Ohio building was purchased by Park Synagogue, becoming their eastern educational facility. Some former members of B'rith Emeth affiliated with Park Synagogue. The collection consists of bulletins, correspondence, committee reports, membership lists, program booklets, blueprints, contracts, and deeds. The collection also contains the records of B'rith Emeth Congregation. | | | | Call #: | MS 4763 | | | | Extent: | 9.21 linear feet (10 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953 | Cohen, Armond E., 1909- | Margolies, Samuel, 1878-1917. | Hirsch, Howard. | Roth, Max. | Eisenberg, Frederick. | Stillman, Saul. | Rocker, Henry. | Guren, Myron. | Ratner family. | Park Synagogue (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) | Brith Emeth Temple (Pepper Pike, Ohio) | Anshe Emeth Beth Tefilo Congregation (Cleveland, Ohio) | Cleveland Jewish Center. | Park School (Cleveland Heights, Ohio). | Conservative Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Organization and administration. | Synagogue architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Synagogue bulletins.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1411 | Title: | Harry Lloyd Eastman Papers
| | | | Creator: | Eastman, Harry Lloyd | | | | Dates: | 1917-1967 | | | | Abstract: | Harry Lloyd Eastman (1882-1963) was a Progressive Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Juvenile Court Judge (1926-1960). He worked with various charitable organizations and service clubs concerned with child welfare and juvenile delinquency. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, articles, reports, statistics, lists, legal briefs, newsletters, minutes, constitutions, programs, invitations, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, and histories of Hudson Boys School and the Blossom Hill School for Girls. | | | | Call #: | MS 3301 | | | | Extent: | 4.00 linear feet (11 containers and 1 oversize volume) | | | | Subjects: | Hudson Boys School (Hudson, Ohio) | Blossom Hill School for Girls (Cleveland, Ohio) | Cuyahoga County (Ohio). Detention Home. | Cuyahoga County (Ohio). Juvenile Court. | Juvenile delinquency -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. | Juvenile corrections -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. | Child welfare -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1412 | Title: | Jewish Community Center of Cleveland Records, Series III
| | | | Creator: | Jewish Community Center of Cleveland | | | | Dates: | 1948-1998 | | | | Abstract: | The Jewish Community Center of Cleveland, Ohio, was formed in 1948 by the merger of the Council Educational Alliance (est. 1899), Camp Wise (est. 1907), the Jewish Young Adult Bureau (est. 1939), and the Cultural Department of the Jewish Community Council (est. 1945), for the purpose of providing recreational, social, and cultural programs to Cleveland's Jewish community. By 1959 the center moved from Cleveland to the suburb of Cleveland Heights. The collection consists of scrapbooks that contain primarily newspaper clippings. | | | | Call #: | MS 4927 | | | | Extent: | 7.00 linear feet (41 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Refugees, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews, Soviet -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Recreation -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 1413 | Title: | Jewish Community Center of Cleveland Photographs, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Jewish Community Center of Cleveland | | | | Dates: | 1929-1992 | | | | Abstract: | The Jewish Community Center of Cleveland was formed in 1948 by the merger of the Council Educational Alliance (established 1899), Camp Wise (established 1907), the Jewish Young Adult Bureau (established 1939), and the Cultural Department of the Jewish Community Council (established 1945), for the purpose of providing recreational social and cultural programs to the Jewish community of Cleveland, Ohio. By 1959 the center moved from Cleveland to the suburb of Cleveland Heights. The collection consists of individual portraits, including Myron Guren, the first president of the Jewish Community Center (JCC), and Herman Eigen, its executive director. Group portraits include a Council Educational Alliance women's group. Photographic views reflect JCC's activities in several areas, including the resettlement of Jews from the former Soviet Union in the 1970s; the Jewish Youth Council, a politically active high school group; and the cultural arts programs of the JCC, including folk dancing, dances, exhibits, holidays, annual meetings, programs, and theater productions. Images of preschoolers include holiday preparations. The photographs of the annual Israel Independence Day parades provide views of Taylor Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Also included are views of Camp Wise in the 1930s and 1930s. | | | | Call #: | PG 502 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish Community Center of Cleveland -- Photograph collections. | Camp Wise (Euclid, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jewish community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jews -- Recreation -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs -- Photographs. | Jews, Soviet -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jewish youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 1414 | Title: | Walker and Weeks Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Walker and Weeks | | | | Dates: | 1920-1950 | | | | Abstract: | Walker and Weeks was the foremost architectural firm in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1920s. The firm specialized in bank buildings, religious structures in classical revival styles, and major commercial and public buildings. The collection consists of photographs and negatives of the buildings, arches, memorials, and proposed plans designed by the Cleveland, Ohio architectural firm of Walker and Weeks. Buildings and structures depicted include Cuyahoga County Hospital; Allen Memorial Library; the American Legion statue; the Burton Memorial; Broadway Savings and Trust Co.; Cleveland Board of Education; Case Observatory; Citizens Savings and Trust Co.; Cleveland Discount Co.; Cleveland Heights High School; Cleveland Post Office; several branches of the Cleveland Public Library; the Cleveland Mall plan; Collinwood Neighborhood Center; Columbus Memorial Lighthouse competition; Commerce National Bank of Toledo, Ohio; proposed plans of Fairmount Presbyterian Church; First Church of Christ Scientist; Foster Mausoleum; Garfield Bank; Gates Mills Town Hall; Cleveland Museum of Art; Guaranty Savings and Loan Co.; Guardian Bank Building; Hanna family headstones; Harrison County, W. Va. Courthouse; Hathaway Brown School; Hattonchata Arch, Hatlonchatel, Belgium; Lincoln Memorial in Cleveland; Lorain County Savings and Trust Co.; Merchants Bank; Metcalf family headstones; Midland Bank; Montfaucon Clock Tower, Montfaucon, Belgium; Mount Union College; Oberlin College swimming pool; Ohio Wesleyan College; Public Auditorium; Street Light Standard; Severance Hall; United Banking and Trust Co.; Central National Bank; Providence Memorial, Providence, Rhode Island; University Circle; University School; Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia; and various unidentified photographs and negatives. | | | | Call #: | PG 109 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Walker and Weeks (Firm) -- Photograph collections. | Architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Architectural firms -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1415 | Title: | Cleveland Military Units Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Military Units | | | | Dates: | 1877-1964 | | | | Abstract: | Troop A was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1877 as an independent military unit to defend against strikers and unruly mobs. It affiliated with the Ohio National Guard in 1877, formed part of the 1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry in 1898, was absorbed into the 135th Field Artillery in 1918, and reorganized in 1920 as Troop A of the 107th Cavalry Regiment of the Ohio National Guard. It became part of the 107th Armored Cavalry Regiment in 1947. The Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery was also founded in 1877 to quell labor violence. It disbanded by 1905. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, invoices, vouchers, financial statements and reports, ledger sheets, legal documents and briefs, newspaper clippings, blueprints, and maps of the 1st Cleveland Cavalry (Troop A); constitution, by-laws, minutes, financial accounts, rosters, booklets of memoranda and statistical information, and other materials of the Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery; and records of the Troop A Armory Company, the Cavalry Riding Academy, and the Cavalry Veteran Association. | | | | Call #: | MS 3000 | | | | Extent: | 8.0 linear feet (20 containers) | | | | Subjects: | United States. Army. -- History -- Punitive expedition into Mexico, 1916. | Troop A (Cleveland, Ohio) | Strikes and lockouts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | World War, 1914-1918. | World War, 1939-1945. | United States -- Armed Forces -- Reserves. | United States -- Militia. | United States -- History, Military. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History, Military. | Riots -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 1416 | Title: | Troop A, First Cleveland Cavalry Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Troop A, First Cleveland Cavalry | | | | Dates: | 1877-1940 | | | | Abstract: | Troop A was founded in 1877 as an independent military unit to defend against strikers and unruly mobs. It affiliated with the Ohio National Guard in 1877, formed part of the 1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry in 1898, was absorbed into the 135th Field Artillery in 1918, and reorganized in 1920 as Troop A of the 107th Cavalry Regiment of the Ohio National Guard. It became part of the 107th Armored Cavalry Regiment in 1947. The Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery was also founded in 1877 to quell labor violence. It disbanded by 1905. The che collection consists of albums and loose photographs depicting the unit at outings, encampments, celebrations, and ceremonial services, including the inaugurations of Presidents William McKinley and William Howard Taft, and the funerals of President William McKinley, Senator Marcus A. Hanna, and U.S. Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick. Locations depicted include Dover Bay, Ohio; Camps Perry, George Crook, McKinley, Beaumont, Nash, and other military camps in Ohio and other states; and in France during World War I. Also included are views of Troop A's Mexican border service in 1916. A large portion of the collection consists of numerous studio individual portraits of members of Troop A and the Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery. | | | | Call #: | PG 152 | | | | Extent: | 8.50 linear feet (7 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 -- Inauguration, 1909 -- Photograph collections. | McKinley, William, 1843-1901 -- Inauguration, 1897 -- Photograph collections. | Troop A (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | United States. Army. -- History -- Punitive expedition into Mexico, 1916 -- Photograph collections. | United States. Army. Field Artillery Regiment, 135th -- Photograph collections. | United States. Army. Ohio Cavalry Regiment, 1st -- Photograph collections. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs. | United States -- Armed Forces -- Reserves -- Photographs. | United States -- Militia -- Photographs. | United States -- History, Military -- Photographs. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History, Military -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 1417 | Title: | Park Synagogue Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Park Synagogue | | | | Dates: | 1900-1990 | | | | Abstract: | Park Synagogue, one of the largest Conservative Jewish synagogues in the world, was founded in 1869 in Cleveland, Ohio, as Anshe Emeth Congregation by twelve Jewish immigrant families from Poland. In 1904, the congregation engaged its first English speaking rabbi, Samuel Margolies. Anshe Emeth merged with Congregation Beth Tefilo ca. 1916, and a large synagogue was built for the combined congregation on East 105th Street in 1922. That same year, Rabbi Solomon Goldman, a well known scholar, teacher, and activist, was hired. He led the congregation into the ranks of Conservative Judaism. In 1934, the congregation engaged one of its own confirmands, Armond E. Cohen, as rabbi. The synagogue, popularly called the Cleveland Jewish Center, became a focus of Jewish life in the Glenville area, serving the social, intellectual, and recreational needs, as well as the religious, of its members; one of the first synagogues in the United States combining all of these facilities in one structure. Following the eastward movement of Cleveland's Jewish population, property on Mayfield Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was purchased in 1942 from the private Park School. In 1950, Park Synagogue (as the congregation came to be known) dedicated a new building, designed by Eric Mendelsohn. In 1969, Kangesser Hall, a 2,000 seat auditorium, was dedicated. When B'rith Emeth Congregation ceased operations in 1988, their Pepper Pike, Ohio building was purchased by Park Synagogue, becoming their eastern educational facility. Some former members of B'rith Emeth affiliated with Park Synagogue. The collection consists of individual portraits of rabbis, cantors, and congregation and community leaders. Included are portraits of rabbis Samuel Benjamin, Armond Cohen, Harry S. Davidowitz, Solomon Goldman, and Howard Hirsch; cantors L. Danto and Abraham Kantor; and notable congregation and community leaders Myron Guren, Ruth Miller, Samuel Miller, Leonard Ratner, Lillian Ratner, and Henry L. Rocker. Other portraits are of well known Cleveland personalities, including Dorothy Fuldheim, Louis B. Seltzer, Samuel Silbert, and Carl Stokes. Also included are group portraits of the religious school, day camp, nursery school, confirmation classes, and other classes. Social groups such as the Glee Club, Parents League, Sisterhood, youth groups, and Men's Club are well represented. Views include synagogue events, religious observances, social activities, interior and exterior views of the Park Synagogue building, and artwork located at Park Synagogue. | | | | Call #: | PG 488 | | | | Extent: | 1.70 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Park Synagogue (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | B'rith Emeth Temple (Pepper Pike, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Anshe Emeth Beth Tefilo Congregation (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Cleveland Jewish Center -- Photograph collections. | Park School (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Conservative Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Synagogue architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Rabbis -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Cantors (Judaism) -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1418 | Title: | Jewish Community Center of Cleveland Records and Photographs, Series IV
| | | | Creator: | Jewish Community Center of Cleveland | | | | Dates: | 1917-2000 | | | | Abstract: | The Jewish Community Center of Cleveland, Ohio, was formed in 1948 by the merger of the Council Educational Alliance (est. 1899), Camp Wise (est. 1907), the Jewish Young Adult Bureau (est. 1939), and the Cultural Department of the Jewish Community Council (est. 1945), for the purpose of providing recreational social and cultural programs to Cleveland's Jewish community. By 1959 the center moved from Cleveland to the suburb of Cleveland Heights. The collection includes awards, booklets, bulletins, correspondence, fliers, handbooks, invitations, lists, manuals, memorabilia, music, newspaper clippings, approximately 540 black and white and color photographs and slides, proclamations, program books, programs, scrapbooks, and scripts. | | | | Call #: | MS 5388 | | | | Extent: | 4.61 linear feet (7 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Recreation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews, Soviet -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Refugees, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1419 | Title: | Nina Freedlander Gibans Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Gift of Nina Gibans | | | | Dates: | 1890-2016 | | | | Abstract: | Nina Freedlander Gibans has been active in Greater Cleveland's arts, culture and educational community for nearly six decades as an arts advocate, administrator, author, and teacher as well as a community volunteer. Gibans was born on July 30, 1932. Her family, the Freedlanders, were, according to family legend, peddlers who headed west in the 1880s from Buffalo, New York. They settled in Wooster, Ohio in the 1940s, where they founded and operated Freedlander's Department Store. After her marriage to architect James Gibans, the family moved to San Francisco where James found work. It was the height of the Beat Era; there Nina often gave poetry readings and had connections with Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Upon her family's return to Cleveland in 1960, Gibans immersed herself in the local and regional arts community. She has been the executive producer of five video programs, three of which have been shown on local public television. Gibans has also served on many panels, boards and committees of local, state and national cultural and civic organizations. The Nina Freedlander Gibans Family Papers collection consists of awards, a book, booklets, certificates, correspondence, a dissertation, family trees, financial records, incorporation articles, interviews, lesson plans, newspaper clippings, patents, photographs, publications, reports, a scrapbook, scripts, speeches, tapes, and yearbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 5446 | | | | Extent: | 4.2 linear feet (5 boxes, including one oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Gibans, Nina Freedlander | Freedlander family | Women television producers and directors -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Women authors -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jews -- Ohio -- Wooster
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1420 | Title: | Armond E. Cohen Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Cohen, Armond E. | | | | Dates: | 1918-2003 | | | | Abstract: | Armond E. Cohen (1909-2007) was a Rabbi who served Park Synagogue, a large Conservative Jewish congregation in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, notes, programs, reports, sermon outlines, sermons and writings. The collection is of value to researchers studying rabbis, Conservative Judaism, and religious institutions between the 1930s and 1990s in Cleveland, Ohio, and the United States in general. Those interested in the activities of Rabbi Armond Cohen and the history of Park Synagogue in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, will find this collection useful. | | | | Call #: | MS 5145 | | | | Extent: | 8.00 linear feet (10 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Conservative Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Conservative Judaism. | Jewish day schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Park Synagogue (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) | Rabbis -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Zionism.
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