http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f2-subject%3DJewish%20women%20--%20Ohio%20--%20Cleveland. Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f2-subject=Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4033.xml Hattie Hyman Dettelbach (1878-1957) was a Cleveland, Ohio, resident active as a volunteer in many Jewish community organizations, including Mt. Sinai Hospital, the Jewish Children's Bureau, Euclid Avenue Temple Sisterhood, and the Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations. She organized sabbath services for patients at Sunny Acres Sanitarium for tuberculosis patients, coordinating this program from the 1920s into the 1950s. The collection consists of correspondence, sisterhood uniongrams, reports, speeches, clippings, memorabilia and certificates. The uniongrams date to Feb. 14, 1950, when Hattie Dettelback was honored by the Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations. Most of the correspondence consists of letters of congratulations or appreciation for various services and contributions. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4033.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3660.xml Mary Belle Grossman (1879-1977) was the first female lawyer to practice in Cleveland District Federal Court, and one of the first two women admitted to the American Bar Association. In 1923 she was elected Cleveland Municipal Judge and served on the traffic bench and the Morals Court until 1960. The collection consists of scrapbooks and newspaper clipping books relating to Judge Grossman's career and election campaigns. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3660.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3796.xml Women's American ORT, Cleveland Region, was established in 1957 as a regional group of the Women's American Organization for Rehabilitation Through Training (ORT), a vocational training program for Jewish people which is a member of the World ORT Union, a worldwide organization whose purpose is to help people by teaching them modern trades and skills. The World ORT runs a global network of vocational schools for this purpose. The Cleveland Region ORT has 28 chapters divided into 5 administrative sections. It is led by a Region Board which is structured into four departments: Special Projects (fund raising), Membership, Education, and Community. It belongs to District VIII, which comprises Ohio, Michigan, and parts of New York and Pennsylvania. The collection consists of correspondence (1972-1975), papers on the history of the ORT from 1881 to 1939, minutes of the Region Board and the Executive Committee (1972-1974), reports of the Cleveland Region made at various conferences and seminars (1965-1975), newsl... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3796.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3819.xml Jeanette Sheifer (1893-1979) was a New York native who was a co-organizer and the first superintendent of the Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish Day Nursery. Ms. Sheifer was also involved in civic work, in street organizing, and in intergroup relations. The collection consists of correspondence, an obituary of Ms. Sheifer, certificates and membership cards, a brief history of the Jewish Day Nursery, programs of its events, miscellaneous programs and invitations, bulletins, newsletters and journal articles relating to the nursery, reports, minutes, and agreements concerning Ms. Sheifer and the nursery, notes by Ms. Sheifer, and newspaper clippings. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3819.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5159.xml The Better Gardens Club was a Jewish women's gardening organization originally affiliated with The Temple-Tifereth Israel in Cleveland, Ohio. The Better Gardens Club was established in November 1926 by 12 members of the Temple Women's Association as The Temple Garden Club. Providing the congregation of The Temple with fresh altar flowers and participating in local flower shows were among the group's activities. In 1931 the group became part of the Garden Club of Greater Cleveland and the Garden Club of Ohio. By 1938 the group had changed its name to Better Gardens Club. The Better Gardens Club sponsored garden and flower shows, winning several awards. The group also contributed to the community by designing, creating, and distributing displays of flowers for many local agencies, including Menorah Park Center for the Aging. The collection consists of agendas, applications, ledgers, lists, minutes, newspaper clippings, programs, rosters, scrapbooks, and speech texts. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5159.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3673.xml The Bikur Cholim Ladies Sick Aid Society was founded in 1893 and incorporated in 1900 by Elias Rothschild, Annie Levy, Rebecca Barnett, Esther Bialosky and Rose Blumenthal. The Society collected dues and donations to finance services for the ill in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1944-1945 Bikur Cholim helped finance the construction of the Jewish Convalescent Hospital of Cleveland. It became an auxiliary agency of the hospital while continuing to provide aid to the indigent sick. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, financial records, legal documents, bulletins, programs, awards, certificates, newspaper clippings, constitution of the Jewish Convalescent Hospital of Cleveland and correspondence of its president. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3673.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4945.xml Ruth Forstein Tannenbaum (1913-2003) was a Cleveland, Ohio, area resident who was active in the Cleveland Jewish community and enjoyed presenting book reviews at old age homes, nursing homes and senior centers. The collection consists of notebooks with notes for specific book reviews, an audio tape of a review of Dennis Foley's Are you happy : collected quotations, done in December 1989 and February 1990, and an oversize photograph of the Cleveland Hebrew Schools Class of 1928. Also includes some miscellaneous material on the East End Furniture Exchange. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4945.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5197.xml Ruth Dancyger (1918-2013) was an author in Cleveland, Ohio, who published four monographs on Cleveland artists and a book to commemorate the 150th anniversary of The Temple - Tifereth Israel. She was also the historian for Oakwood Country Club. The collection consists of an autobiography, correspondence, and photographs pertaining to Dancyger's research of the lives of Cleveland artists Doris Hall and Kalman Kubinyi. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5197.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3655.xml Selma H. Weiss (1896-1974) was a social worker with the Welfare Association for Jewish Children in Cleveland, Ohio, and with the American Red Cross. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating to Mrs. Weiss' personal life, social work career, and visit to the Soviet Union in 1936. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3655.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4051.xml Joseph L. Weinberg was a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, architect and senior partner of Weinberg, Teare, Fischer, Herman. Edith L. Weinberg was a program director at the Young Men's and Women's Hebrew Association in Pittsburgh (1926-1933) and was a leader in many Jewish and community service organizations. Her mother, Stella S. Lazarus was secretary at the Jewish Orphan Asylum in Cleveland, Ohio (1923-1933). The collection consists of agendas, brochures, certificates, clippings, contracts, correspondence, drawings, genealogical charts, inventories, invitations, lists, memoirs, minutes, newsletters, notebooks, programs, reports, scrapbooks, speech texts, telegrams and writings. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4051.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4812.xml Libbie L. Braverman was a nationally prominent teacher, author, lecturer, and consultant in the field of Jewish education. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she moved to Cleveland, Ohio, while in high school. She received a teaching certificate from Cleveland Normal School (ca. 1920) and a B.S. in Education from Western Reserve University in 1933. From 1946-1952 she was director of the Euclid Avenue Temple School and in 1945, became the first woman elected to the Board of the National Council for Jewish Education. She wrote numerous books and articles, including many co-authored with Nathan Brilliant. She was married to architect Sigmund Braverman in 1924. The collection consists of a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, correspondence, teacher institute programs, synagogue bulletin articles, a certificate, and a curriculum vitae. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4812.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5020.xml Arthur J. Lelyveld was the senior rabbi of Anshe Chesed Congregation in Beachwood, Ohio, from 1958 to 1986, and senior rabbi emeritus from 1986 until his death in 1996. He played key roles in national and local Jewish organizations and fought actively for civil rights. He married Teela C. Stovsky Himelfarb in 1965. She was active as a volunteer leader and fundraiser for numerous organizations in the Cleveland area. Teela Lelyveld was also active as a professional model, television host, and public relations representative. The collection consists of articles, brochures, bulletins, certificates, diaries (daily schedules), travel logs, and newspaper clippings. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5020.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5161.xml Dorothy and Ralph Colbert were active Jewish community leaders in Cleveland, Ohio, in the mid to late twentieth century. Dorothy Katz Meister Koblitz Colbert (1923-2004) volunteered with The Temple-Tifereth Israel, the Cleveland Rehabilitation Center, and the National Council of Jewish Women. She was also a co-founder of Mt. Sinai Hospital's Junior Auxiliary. She was the daughter of Samuel Meister, who, along with his brothers Eugene and Edward and his brother-in-lawStuart Halle (husband of Zara Meister), founded Meister Brothers, later known as Meistergram, Inc., in 1933. She married Maurice J. Koblitz in 1947, and, before divorcing, the couple had two children, Michael A. Koblitz and Jan K. Blum. In 1974 she married Ralph A. Colbert (1908-1987), an attorney with the firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. Ralph A. Colbert served on the boards of Cleveland Council on World Affairs, the Cleveland Play House, and the local chapter of the American Jewish Committee. The collection consists of an article, certificat... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5161.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5169.xml Libbie L. Braverman was a nationally prominent teacher, author, lecturer, and consultant in the field of Jewish education. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she moved to Cleveland, Ohio, while in high school. She received a teaching certificate from Cleveland Normal School (ca. 1920) and a B.S. in Education from Western Reserve University in 1933. From 1946-1952 she was director of the Euclid Avenue Temple School and in 1945, became the first woman elected to the Board of the National Council for Jewish Education. She wrote numerous books and articles, including many co-authored with Nathan Brilliant. She was married to architect Sigmund Braverman in 1924. The collection consists of a curriculum, manuals for teachers, pageants, and a workbook. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5169.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4546.xml Sara Allen Halperin was a Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish community leader from the 1920s-1960s. She was a founding member of Pioneer Women-The Women's Labor Zionist Organization of America, Inc., and helped establish its Cleveland chapter, serving as president of the Cleveland chapter, regional chairperson, national chairperson of regions, and for twelve years, member of the national board. She was also a member of the board of trustees of the Council Educational Alliance, a founder and first secretary of Sholom Aleichem Congregation, and a cultural chairperson of the Jewish Community Council. She married Moses P. Halperin, a Cleveland architect also active in the Cleveland Jewish community, in 1924. In 1965, eight years after her husband's death, she emigrated to Israel where she lived until her death. The collection consists of articles by Halperin concerning her Pioneer Women's activities in Israel, correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to Pioneer Women's activities, and biographical and autobiographic... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4546.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4566.xml Libbie L. Braverman was a nationally prominent teacher, author, lecturer, and consultant in the field of Jewish education. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she moved to Cleveland, Ohio, while in high school. She received a teaching certificate from Cleveland Normal School (ca. 1920) and a B.S. in Education from Western Reserve University in 1933. From 1946-1952 she was director of the Euclid Avenue Temple School and in 1945, became the first woman elected to the Board of the National Council for Jewish Education. She wrote numerous books and articles, including many co-authored with Nathan Brilliant. She was married to architect Sigmund Braverman in 1924. The collection consists of articles, pamphlets, speeches, book reviews of books written or co-written by Braverman, religious school materials, correspondence, and honors and awards, given to, or established by, Libbie Braverman. The collection is of particular interest to researchers studying the development of Jewish education, especially the congregational... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4566.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4642.xml Saul Meisels served as cantor of B'nai Jeshurun Congregation (Temple on the Heights), Cleveland Heights, Ohio, from 1942-1979, and was considered one of the foremost interpreters of Yiddish song in the United States. He attended New York University and received formal vocal training at Julliard School of Music. He served as president of the Cantors Assembly, was a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Theological Seminary, and was a founder of the Jewish Liturgical Society and the Israel Music Association. In 1965, in Israel, he headed the first International Conference of Jewish Sacred Music. Through commissions and performances, he encouraged the writing of new compositions for the synagogue. His wife, Ida Ruth Moskowitz Meisels, was a musician and composer of Jewish and Hebrew songs and cantorial recitatives for solo voice, piano, and chorus. She and Saul Meisels were married in 1935. Following their move to Cleveland, Ohio, she studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and served for more than ... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4642.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4710.xml Sarah Marcus was a physician who specialized in obstetrics and gynecology in Cleveland, Ohio. The daughter of Aaron and Etta Marcus, Sarah graduated from Central High School in 1912, and from Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1916. She graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1920, and completed an internship at Akron (Ohio) City Hospital in 1923. Returning to Cleveland in 1923, she established a medical practice on the city's South Side. In 1924, she began practicing at Women's Hospital, where she later served as Chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1933-1970. In 1928, she began work as a voluntary clinician with the Maternal Health Association, forerunner of Planned Parenthood. In the 1950s, she was instrumental in the establishment of a marriage counseling and fertility clinic at Planned Parenthood. She married Dr. Samuel Cowan, with whom she had one child, Joseph Marcus. The collection consists of tributes, newspaper clip... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4710.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4735.xml Julius and Helen K. Weil were German-born Jews who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1941 where their achievements in geriatric social work earned them national recognition. Julius served as executive director (1941-1968), and Helen as director of social services (1943-1968), at Montefiore Home, an old age home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. They then joined the staff of the Cornelius Schnurmann House, a housing community for senior citizens in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, as executive director and social services director. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence (in English and German), family records, patents, a doctoral dissertation, writings, and restitution claims. The family records, in German, for the Kahn and Weil families include inofrmation on births and deaths, a list of Holocaust victims, and a Weil family history. The restitution claims files cover claims made to the Federal German Republic by Helen and Julus Weil, and by Hermine Cahn, Helen's sister, for losses suffered in Germany d... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4735.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4827.xml Ronald Brown was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised and educated in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1928, he founded, along with William C. Treuhaft and Elmer C. Hann, the Tremco Manufacturing Company in Cleveland. Brown was a vice president of Tremco. After retirement from the company in 1960, he became a management consultant. Brown was the author of From Selling to Managing: Guidelines for the First-Time Sales Manager. His volunteer and philanthropic activities included work for the Jewish Big Brothers Association of Cleveland, the Citizen's Advisory Board to the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court, the Ohio Department on Aging, and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Board of Education. He married Isabelle Gup in 1934. She was a graduate of Case Western Reserve University. Active in the Cleveland Section, National Council of Jewish Women, she served as president of that organization and was active on the national and international level. She also was first chair of the Women's Organization of the Jewish Community ... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4827.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4844.xml Rachel Diane Landy was a Jewish nurse from Cleveland, Ohio. Born in Lithuania, she and her family immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1890. After graduation from nursing school, she worked in Cleveland with Dr. George Crile as an operating room nurse. In 1907 she began her association with Harlem Hospital in New York City. In 1913 she began a visiting nurse program in Palestine sponsored by the newly organized women's organization, Hadassah. In 1915 she returned to Cleveland to nurse her parents. In 1916, she relocated to New York City, becoming assistant superintendent of nurses at Fordham Hospital, and in 1917, superintendent of nurses at the Montefiore Home County Sanitarium in Bedford Hills, New York. In July 1918 she entered the United States Army Nursing Corps. During her army career she was stationed in Europe, in the Philippines, and at various army installations throughout the United States. In 1940 she became one of four assistant superintendents of the Army Nurse Corps. Her final army assignment, in ... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4844.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4866.xml Rena Blumberg, the daughter of Ezra Z. and Sylvia Lamport Shapiro, was a community relations director and radio interviewer for stations in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition, she won recognition as an author, lecturer, community activist, and business consultant. She was active in Cleveland area civic, cultural, philanthropic, health, Jewish, and women's issues. Blumberg published her book Headstrong in 1982. In 1999, she married third husband Bernard Olshansky of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, where she now resides. The collection consists of certificates, biographical materials, genealogical materials, newspaper and magazine clippings, oral history transcripts, correspondence, and scrapbooks. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4866.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4919.xml Mount Sinai Hospital had its origins in the Young Ladies Hebrew Association for the Care of the Needy Sick, created in 1892 by nine young women in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1900, they changed their name to the Jewish Women's Hospital Association. A 29-bed facility, named Mount Sinai Hospital, opened in 1903 at 2373 E. 37th St. In 1916, a new, larger facility was opened at E. 105th St. and Ansel Rd. Innovations included outpatient clinics for pediatrics and mental hygiene, established in 1915. A nursing school was included. Mount Sinai affiliated with Western Reserve University for the training and education of its nurses in 1930, and its doctors in 1947. Medical research was given a high priority. The Women's and Junior Women's auxiliaries provided important assistance to the medical staff and patients, including a nursery school for children of nurses and volunteers. Mount Sinai served as a major medical resource for Cleveland's east side throughout its history. Expansion included a twelve-story building and a kid... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4919.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4966.xml Ronald Brown and his wife, Isabelle Brown, were community activists in Cleveland, Ohio, involved in local, national, and international social and philanthropic agencies. Ronald Brown was one of the founders and vice president of Tremco Manufacturing Company and a management consultant and author. He was particularly involved with the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court, the Ohio Dept. of Aging, and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Board of Education. His wife, Isabelle Brown, was especially involved with the National Council of Jewish Woman and the International Council of Jewish Women. The collection consists of biographical information, miscellaneous correspondence and documents, speeches, brochures, clippings, notes and scrapbooks and photographs. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4966.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5036.xml Rita Frankel (b. 1929), a social worker and active member in the Jewish community, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Manny and Eva Heisler Hartenbaum. She married Burton Frankel in 1953, and later earned her M.A. in Counseling and Human Services from John Carroll University. She was employed as Displaced Worker Service Coordinator and Counselor at Cuyahoga Community College from 1978 to 1991. Esther Metzendorf Fischgrund, a relative of Frankel's, was a widely respected businesswoman and community leader. Following her marriage to Seymour Fischgrund in 1916, the couple opened Fish Furniture on Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland. The collection consists of certificates, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and speech texts. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5036.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5413.xml Mount Sinai Hospital (1903-2000) had its origins in the Young Ladies Hebrew Association for the Care of the Needy Sick, created in 1892 by nine young women in Cleveland, Ohio. The hospital opened in 1903. In 1996, the nonprofit hospital was sold to a for-profit company, Primary Health Systems (PHS). In March 1999, PHS filed for bankruptcy, and in February 2000, Mount Sinai Hospital closed. The closure of Mount Sinai was a significant development in the history of medicine in the Cleveland area and in the history of the Jewish community. Diana Tittle, author of Welcome to Heights High: The Crippling Politics of Restructuring America's Public Schools and other titles, began research on a book documenting the closure of Mt. Sinai in 2004. Amid concerns that the ongoing consolidation of the health care delivery system and the ongoing national health care debate would overshadow her publication, Tittle reached the decision to pursue an alternative use for her research other than publication. Th... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5413.xml Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4621.xml The Cleveland Jewish History Sources Collection is a card file assembled between 1954-1956 by the American Jewish History Center of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, to support a planned volume on the history of Cleveland, Ohio, Jewry. This intention was realized with the publication of History of the Jews of Cleveland by Lloyd P. Gartner in 1978. Source material for this card file, which covers the span from the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, includes both the national Anglo-Jewish press and local Cleveland sources, including the general press, the Anglo-Jewish press, and Jewish communal records. Rabbi Jack J. Herman and Judah Rubinstein were the local Cleveland researchers for the project. The collection consists of 16,000 index cards containing information about Cleveland's Jewish community that was obtained primarily from newspapers. These cards have been arranged into fourteen broad categories: Arts; Charities; Clubs and Societies, Various; Community Services; Economi... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4621.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4749.xml Dorothy Davis Kates was employed by the Historical Records Survey of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1930s; serving as a Superintendent of the Cuyahoga County Archives Survey Project, as an Area Supervisor, a Project Planning Assistant, and eventually as the Director of the Historical Records Program of the WPA in Cleveland. Kates was also active in many civic and arts organizations throughout her life, including the Print Club of Cleveland, the Cleveland Society for Contemporary Art, and the Women's City Club of Cleveland. Beginning in 1966, she chaired the Mental Health Committee of the Women's City Club, helping to organize lectures and community projects concerned with mental health, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, teen pregnancy, child abuse, and prison reform issues. She founded the Women's City Club Mental Health Institute in 1976. Kates was also active in local Democratic Party politics, particularly in the presidential elections of 1960, 1964, and 1968. Other ... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4749.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4840.xml Mount Sinai Hospital had its origins in the Young Ladies Hebrew Association for the Care of the Needy Sick, created in 1892 by nine young women in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1900, they changed their name to the Jewish Women's Hospital Association. A 29-bed facility, named Mount Sinai Hospital, opened in 1903 at 2373 East 37th Street. In 1916, a new, larger facility was opened at East 105th Street and Ansel Road. Innovations included outpatient clinics for pediatrics and mental hygiene, established in 1915. A nursing school was included. Mount Sinai affiliated with Western Reserve University for the training and education of its nurses in 1930, and its doctors in 1947. Medical research was given a high priority. The Women's and Junior Women's auxiliaries provided important assistance to the medical staff and patients, including a nursery school for children of nurses and volunteers. Mount Sinai served as a major medical resource for Cleveland's east side throughout its history. Expansion included a twelve-story build... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4840.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4842.xml Abba Hillel Silver was the Rabbi at The Temple, Cleveland, Ohio, and prominent internationally known leader of the Zionist movement for a Jewish homeland. The collection consists of biographical materials including certificates, drawings, journal articles, passports, naturalization papers, oral history transcripts, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and rabbinical materials including notes for sermons, writings, and eulogies. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4842.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5044.xml The Ratner (formerly Ratowczer) family has been prominent in the Cleveland, Ohio, area since the mid-twentieth century. The family immigrated to the United States in 1920 and settled in Cleveland in 1921. Leonard Ratner began his business career by opening two creameries in the Glenville neighborhood. He then formed the Buckeye Material Company in 1924, later merging it with his brother Charlie's business, Forest City Material Company, in 1929, to form the B & F Building Company, a major builder of prefabricated homes in the east side suburbs. The family consolidated their business interests into Forest City Enterprises, Inc. in 1960. Leonard Ratner married Lillian Bernstein in 1924 and had two children: Ruth Ratner Miller and Albert B. Ratner. Leonard Ratner held many important positions on community boards during his lifetime, including the positions of honorary life trustee at the Jewish Welfare Federation, the Jewish Community Federation, and Mount Sinai Hospital. His children were also heavily involved i... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5044.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5143.xml Mount Sinai Hospital (1903-2000) had its origins in the Young Ladies Hebrew Association for the Care of the Needy Sick, created in 1892 by nine young women in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1900, they changed their name to the Jewish Women's Hospital Association. A 29-bed facility, named Mount Sinai Hospital, opened in 1903 at 2373 East 37th Street. In 1916, a new, larger facility was opened at East 105th Street and Ansel Road. Innovations included outpatient clinics for pediatrics and mental hygiene, established in 1915. A nursing school was included. Mount Sinai affiliated with Western Reserve University for the training and education of its nurses in 1930, and its doctors in 1947. Mount Sinai served as a major medical resource for Cleveland's east side throughout its history. A new medical wing was added to the hospital in the 1980s, and in 1993 an integrated medical campus was opened in Beachwood. In 1996, the nonprofit hospital was sold to a for-profit company, Primary Health Systems (PHS). In March 1999, PHS filed... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5143.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5430.xml Mount Sinai Hospital (1903-2000) had its origins in the Young Ladies Hebrew Association for the Care of the Needy Sick, created in 1892 by nine young women in Cleveland, Ohio. A 29-bed facility, named Mount Sinai Hospital, opened in 1903 at 2373 East 37th Street. In 1916, a new, larger facility was opened at East 105th Street and Ansel Road. Mount Sinai affiliated with Western Reserve University for the training and education of its nurses in 1930, and its doctors in 1947. Mount Sinai served as a major medical resource for Cleveland's east side throughout its history. In 1996, the nonprofit hospital was sold to a for-profit company, Primary Health Systems (PHS). In March 1999, PHS filed for bankruptcy, and in February 2000, Mount Sinai Hospital closed. The collection consists of articles, brochures, a bulletin, a certificate, minutes, a press release, a print, a proposal, records of honor, reports, commemorative tiles, a tribute book, a yearbook, as well as several audio and visual materials. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5430.xml Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4941.xml Beatrice Yarus Abrams and her husband, Harry Abrams, owned Caxton Printers Supply Company. She was active in the Cleveland, Ohio, area Jewish community, served as a board member of Cleveland Club of Litho and Printing House Craftsmen and president of Memorial School PTA.. The collection consists of correspondence, a diary, contracts, newspaper articles, newsletters, program booklets, diplomas, greeting cards, and World War II memorabilia. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4941.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2021 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4563.xml 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. Al... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4563.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT