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1Title:  Chaim Landy Family Papers     
 Creator:  Landy, Chaim Family 
 Dates:  1888-2009 
 Abstract:  The Landy family traces its roots to Chaim Ephraim (Landesman) Landy and his wife, Esther Yudovitz, of Kovno, Lithuania. Six of their sons immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1905. Jacob Landy (1850-1916) settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and became the first sofer in the region. He also opened the first Jewish bookstore in Cleveland. The collection consists of an account book, constitution, correspondence, genealogical charts, newsletters, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, and official documents. 
 Call #:  MS 5102 
 Extent:  0.40 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Lithuanians -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jews, Lithuanian.
 
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2Title:  Chaim Landy Family Photographs     
 Creator:  Landy, Chaim Family 
 Dates:  1904-2006 
 Abstract:  The Landy family traces its roots to Chaim Ephraim (Landesman) Landy and his wife, Esther Yudovitz, of Kovno, Lithuania. Six of their sons immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1905. Jacob Landy (1850-1916) settled in Cleveland, Ohio and became the first sofer in the region. He also opened the first Jewish bookstore in Cleveland. The collection consists of approximately 60 black and white individual and group portraits and ten color individual and group portraits. 
 Call #:  PG 569 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Jews, Lithuanian. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | American National Red Cross
 
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3Title:  David Peretz Adelman Papers     
 Creator:  Adelman, David peretz 
 Dates:  1910-1973 
 Abstract:  David Peretz Adelman lived in the Jewish community in Gelvan, Lithuania. He and his wife, Feigeh, owned a store until World War I, when their house and store were destroyed. In 1925, Adelman and his second wife were brutally murdered. Adelman wrote to his children in America, and his letters were discovered in 1973 upon the death of his son, Morris Adelman, of Cleveland, Ohio. At that time they were translated into English by Geraldine F. Powers. The collection consists of the original correspondence in Yiddish and Hebrew, a single letter to Morris Adelman from Mayer Shochet describing Adelmlan's death, their English translations, including an account of Jewish life in Lithuania by the translator, and a 1925 newspaper clipping from the Jewish Forward. 
 Call #:  MS 4828 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Adelman, David Peretz, 1855-1925. | Adelman family. | Jews -- Lithuania. | Jews -- Persecutions -- Lithuania. | Jews, Lithuanian.
 
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