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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Introduction: Cleveland and Its Jews: New Perspectives on Communal History -- 1. "A Link in the Great American Chain": The Evolution of Jewish Orthodoxy in Cleveland to 1940 -- 2. Jewish Philanthropy in Cleveland to 1990 -- 3. Abraham Hayyim Friedland and the Context, Structures, and Content of Jewish Education -- 4. Everyman vs. Superman: Harvey Pekar, Comics, and Cleveland -- 5. Ethnic Identity and Local Politics: Abba Hillel Silver as a Community Leader and International Politician in Cleveland, 1940-1950 -- 6. "She Will Be the Mary Poppins We Have Been Searching For": The Rise of Feminism and Organizational Change in the Cleveland Section of the National Council of Jewish Women -- 7. Trepidation, Tolerance, and Turnover: Jewish-Black Relations in Cleveland Neighborhoods, 1920-1960 -- 8. Jewish Suburbanization and Jewish Presence in the "City without Jews" -- 9. Suburban Temple and the Creation of Postwar American Judaism -- 10. People-to- People: Cleveland's Jewish Community and the Exodus of Soviet Jews -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume gathers an array of voices to tell the stories of Cleveland's twentieth century Jewish community. Strong and stable after an often turbulent century, the Jews of Cleveland had both deep ties in the region and an evolving and dynamic commitment to Jewish life. The authors present the views and actions of community leaders and everyday Jews who embodied that commitment in their religious participation, educational efforts, philanthropic endeavors, and in their simple desire to live next to each other in the city's eastern suburbs. The twentieth century saw the move of Cleveland's Jews out of the center of the city, a move that only served to increase the density of Jewish life. The essays collected here draw heavily on local archival materials and present the area's Jewish past within the context of American and American Jewish studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
"The robust Jewish community of Cleveland, Ohio is the largest Midwestern Jewish community with about 80,000 Jewish residents. Historically, it has been one of the largest hubs of American Jewish life outside of the East Coast. Yet there is a critical gap in the literature relating to Jewish Cleveland, its suburbs, and the Midwestern Jewish experience. Cleveland's Jews in the Urban Midwest remedies this gap, and adds to an emerging subfield in American Jewish history that moves away from the East Coast to explore Jewish life across the United States, in cities including Chicago and Detroit, and across regions like the West Coast. Cleveland's Jews in the Urban Midwest features ten diverse studies from prominent international scholars, addressing a wide range of subjects and ultimately enhancing our understanding of regional, urban, and Jewish American history. Focusing on the twentieth century specifically, the historians included in this collection address critical questions about Jewish Cleveland in the history of the United States. Essays investigate Jewish philanthropy, comics, gender, religious identity and education from the perspectives of both Reform and Orthodox Jewish communities, participation in social service organizations, and the Soviet Jewish movement, among other subjects, and reveal the different roles these subjects play in shaping Jewish communities over time. Uniquely, this is a work of regional history that engages fully in parallel conversations in Jewish history and urban history, making the volume a key addition to these three dynamic fields"--Provided by publisher |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 27, 2020) |
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Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History
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RELIGION -- General.
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Ethnic relations
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Jews
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| SUBJECT |
Cleveland (Ohio) -- Ethnic relations
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Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Martin, Sean, 1968- editor.
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Grabowski, John J., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781978809956 |
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1978809956 |
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9781978809970 |
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1978809972 |
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