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1	Title:	Thorman Family Papers
	Creator:	Thorman Family
	Dates:	1873-1961
	Abstract:	Simson Thorman was one of the first Jews to settle in Cleveland, Ohio, coming in 1837, and was responsible for the migration of 19 other Jews from Unsleben, Bavaria, known as the Alsbacher Party, the first major settlement of Jews in Cleveland. His grandson, Harold Thorman, the principal family member represented in the collection, was founder of H.M. Thorman, a women's coat-making firm, and was also associated with the brokerage firm of Joseph Mellen & Miller, Inc. The collection consists of genealogical notes, clippings, correspondence, certificates, wills, and record books. Includes wills of Simson and Regina Thorman, as well as a land title, correspondence regarding property, and record books relating to Simson Thorman; clippings, a memorial tribute to Abba Hillel Silver, and birth, marriage, army discharge and death certificates for Harold Thorman. The collection has value for the study of the origins and development of the Jewish community in Cleveland.
	Call #:	MS 4228
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Thorman family. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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2	Title:	J. D. Deutsch Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc. Records
	Creator:	J. D. Deutsch Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc.
	Dates:	1909-1960
	Abstract:	J. D. Deutsch Funeral Home and Crematory was a Jewish funeral home founded by Jacob D. Deutsch around 1900 in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1967 it became the Miller-Deutsch Memorial Chapel. The collection consists of burial books, which include name, address, age, spouse, parents, birthplace, cause of death, doctor, location of death, and location of cemetery. Included are some non-Jewish burials. click here to view the searchable index to the funeral records contained in this collection
	Call #:	MS 4339
	Extent:	4.70 linear feet (3 containers and 22 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	J. D. Deutsch Funeral Home and Crematory. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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3	Title:	Thorman Family Papers, Series II
	Creator:	Thorman Family
	Dates:	1904-1960
	Abstract:	The Thorman family is descended from Simson Thorman (1811-1888), the first Jew who, in 1837, permanently settled in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of letters, miscellaneous family documents and programs from The Temple (Tifereth Israel) and other organizations, newspapers and newspaper clippings, real estate documents and a scrapbook of the Thorman family genealogy.
	Call #:	MS 4780
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Thorman family. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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4	Title:	Ante-Bellum Cleveland Jewish Immigrants Database
	Creator:	Ante-Bellum Cleveland Jewish Immigrants Database
	Dates:	1989-1990
	Abstract:	The Ante-bellum Cleveland Jewish Immigrants Database Collection was assembled as part of a research project sponsored by the Cleveland Jewish Archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The project, organized to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Cleveland, Ohio's Jewish community, resulted in the traveling exhibit "Founders: Cleveland's Jewish Community Before the Civil War," which opened at the Western Reserve Historical Society Museum in 1990. The collection consists of computer printout data sheets of 850 (primarily German) Jews known to have emigrated from Europe to Cleveland, Ohio between the 1830s and 1861. Each data sheet includes an individual's earliest known name and variant spellings. Categories of additional potential information include sex, country, region, and village of origin; arrival date and arrival age in America and in Cleveland; birth date, death date, and cemetery name; marital status, name of spouse(s), marriage date(s), and number of children; home and business address(es); occupations(s); institutional affiliation(s); and extant visual images(s). Data sheets are followed by the original work sheets on which data was entered by hand. Sources for the information on individuals is indicated on the worksheets.
	Call #:	MS 4516
	Extent:	1.60 linear feet (4 containers)
	Subjects:	Western Reserve Historical Society. Cleveland Jewish Archives. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Jews, German -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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5	Title:	David Rothenberg Papers
	Creator:	Rothenberg, David
	Dates:	1917-1988
	Abstract:	David Rotherberg was raised in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, and collected and wrote materials relating to the history of the Jewish community of Collinwood. The collection consists of materials relating to the history of the Jewish community in Collinwood, a neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, written or compiled by David Rothenberg. It includes an essay; Collinwood Jewish population data for 1929; a list of Collinwood Jewish residents, including their occupations and addresses; congregational announcements from the Jewish Independent for Adath Jeshurun congregation, and its successor, Lake Shore Jewish Center; profiles of the lives of several Jews raised in Collinwood; a copy of the Articles of Incorporation of Adath Jeshurun Congregation; and photographs of Lake Shore Jewish Center and former Collinwood Jewish residents.
	Call #:	MS 4622
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Rothenberg, David, 1921- \| Adath Jeshurun (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Lake Shore Jewish Center (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Collinwood (Cleveland, Ohio) -- History. \| Collinwood (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Biography.
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6	Title:	Educational League Records
	Creator:	Educational League
	Dates:	1897-1966
	Abstract:	The Educational League was initiated by members of B'nai B'rith, Baron de Hirsch Lodge of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1897, as an independent organization whose mission was to provide Jewish orphans with financial aid for higher education. Based in Cleveland and chartered in the State of Ohio, the League's operation covered twenty states in the central United States. Presidents of the League included Martin A. Marks, Dr. Samuel Wolfenstein, Rabbi Moses Gries, and Albert A. Benesch. It's original mission soon expanded to include any Jewish student in need. Money advanced was to be a repayable loan, rather than a grant. Beginning in the late 1920s, the League concentrated exclusively on assisting students from the Cleveland area, or out-ot-town students attending Cleveland area schools. Around the same time, the League joined with the Jewish Welfare Federation of Cleveland and the Cleveland Section, National Council of Jewish Women to coordinate the review and approval of loans. This alliance was known as the Joint Conference on Educational Fund Loans (ca. 1930-1945), and as the Joint Educational Loan Committee thereafter. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, and beneficiary files. The beneficiary files are arranged alphabetically by last name of beneficiary.
	Call #:	MS 4667
	Extent:	4.00 linear feet (6 containers)
	Subjects:	Educational League (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Jewish Community Federation (Cleveland, Ohio) \| National Council of Jewish Women. Cleveland Section. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Student loan funds -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish students -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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7	Title:	Numbers 2000 Records
	Creator:	Numbers 2000
	Dates:	1995-1997
	Abstract:	Numbers 2000 was a Jewish family history project created by Melitz, a Jewish-Zionist educational organization in Israel. The Jewish Education Center of Cleveland (JECC) implemented the program in the Cleveland, Ohio, area in 1993. Numbers 2000 was initially implemented in five congregational schools, and then grew to eight schools the following year. The program was designed to interest students in their Jewish heritage both in and out of the classroom. Projects included finding old family photographs and documents, interviewing relatives, and developing family trees. For one project, students brought a photograph, document, or heirloom to the Western Reserve Historical Society to be photographed. These photographs were developed into slides, with the intention that the slides would become an educational resource for future generations of Cleveland Jews. The collection consists of a slide catalogue, permission slips, and slide document information sheets, which describe the item each child brought to the Western Reserve Historical Society to be photographed. The congregational schools represented in this collection are Bethaynu, B'nai Jeshurun, Fairmount Temple, Park Synagogue, Solomon Schechter Day School, and Temple Emanu El.
	Call #:	MS 5121
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Jewish Education Center of Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish day schools -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish families -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. \| Genealogy -- Study and teaching (Secondary) \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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8	Title:	Ohab Zedek Congregation Records
	Creator:	Ohab Zedek Congregation
	Dates:	1920-1991
	Abstract:	Ohab Zedek Congregation was an Orthodox Jewish congregation founded ca. 1884 and located near the Harvard-Broadway area of Cleveland, Ohio, in what had been Newburgh Village, Ohio, before its annexation to Cleveland in 1873. The congregation was housed at various locations in this neighborhood until 1909, when they moved into their own building on Homestead Ave. In 1895 the congregation acquired a section of the Lansing Cemetery, located at Lansing Ave. and East 58th St. Isolated from the centers of major Jewish settlement in Cleveland, and sustained by only a small local Jewish population, Ohab Zedek struggled during the Depression to survive. In 1933, the congregation sold its synagogue. In 1976, an elderly surviving member of Ohab Zedek arranged with Heights Jewish Center to undertake custodianship of the Ohab Zedek section of the Lansing Cemetery. The collection consists of two interment record scrolls (ca. 1920s) which provide a diagram of the location of the grave sites of the section of the Lansing Cemetery belonging to Ohab Zedek, a copy of a cemetery maintenance agreement (1976), and a history of Ohab Zedek compiled by Lou Rosenblum. The history includes a description of the Harvard-Broadway area during Ohab Zedek's lifetime, a description of the occupations of members of Ohab Zedek, and a map showing the location of the businesses of members of Ohab Zedek.
	Call #:	MS 4541
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Ohab Zedek Congregation (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Lansing Cemetery (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Orthodox Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cemeteries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cemeteries -- Recording -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish cemeteries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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9	Title:	Cleveland Jewish History Sources, Series II
	Creator:	Herman, Shoshana
	Dates:	1953-1958
	Abstract:	Cleveland Jewish History Sources, Series II includes materials related to the support of a planned volume on the history of Cleveland, Ohio, Jewry. The research for that volume was conducted between 1954 and 1956 and was supported by the American Jewish History Center (AJHC) of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The planned volume materialized in 1978 with the publication of Lloyd P. Gartner's History of the Jews of Cleveland (Cleveland: Western Reserve Historical Society and Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, 1978, 1987). MS. 4621, Cleveland Jewish History Sources consists of over 16,000 index cards containing information about Cleveland's Jewish community obtained primarily from newspapers. These cards have been arranged into fourteen broad categories: Arts; Charities; Clubs and Societies, Various; Community Services; Economic Life; Education; Political Affairs; Population; Sermons and Lectures; Social Life; Synagogues; Synagogue Related; Umbrella Organizations, and Zionism. Sources for this information, which cover the span from the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, were researched by one team at the AJHC in New York City and another in Cleveland. AJHC researchers culled Cleveland related information from the national Anglo Jewish press; Cleveland researchers Jack Herman (Rabbi, Community Temple) and Judah Rubinstein (subsequently, Research Director, Cleveland Jewish Federation), extracted information from local sources, including the general press, the Anglo Jewish press and Jewish communal records. While MS 4621, Cleveland Jewish History Sources functions as a partial index to the local Jewish press, MS 5111, Cleveland Jewish History Sources Collection, Series II includes background materials for the planned publication project such as correspondence and interviews. In addition, the unpublished papers on aspects of Cleveland Jewish history offer the researcher different perspectives and ideas for other sources.
	Call #:	MS 5111
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Fischer, Mabel. \| Benesch, Alfred A. (Alfred Abraham) 1879-1973. \| Weidenthal, Leo. \| Wiesenfeld, Leon, 1885-1971. \| Jewish Theological Seminary of America. American Jewish History Center. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. \| Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Journalism -- Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources.
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10	Title:	Temple-Tifereth Israel Photographs
	Creator:	Temple-Tifereth Israel
	Dates:	1870-2008
	Abstract:	The Temple-Tifereth Israel is the second oldest Jewish congregation in Cleveland, Ohio. The congregation was founded in 1850 after several members of Anshe Chesed, Cleveland's first congregation, left that congregation as the result of a dispute over religious ritual. After implementing religious reforms in the service and hiring a dedicated rabbi for the congregation, Tifereth Israel eventually built the first synagogue for the congregation in 1855 at Huron and Miami Streets. In 1894 the congregation moved to Willson Avenue in the Woodland neighborhood and then to Wade Park on East 105th Street in 1924. The congregation dedicated The Temple Branch in Beachwood in 1969. In 2010 it was announced that the East 105th Street building would be renovated by Case Western Reserve University for use as a performing arts center. The congregation currently makes its home in Beachwood. The collection consists of oversize confirmation photographs. Each individual photograph, except the ones before 1909, depicts individual portraits of each member of the class for the given year. The photographs prior to 1909 are group portraits. Each portrait includes photographs of the rabbis of the congregation at the time, including Moses Gries, Abba Hillel Silver, and Daniel Silver. There are no photographs for 1871-1897, 1952, 1954, 1987 and 1988.
	Call #:	PG 589
	Extent:	0.96 linear feet (96 oversize folders)
	Subjects:	Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Photographs. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Temple-Tifereth Israel (Cleveland, Ohio) -- History \| Temple-Tifereth Israel (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections \| Temple-Tifereth Israel (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Jewish History \| Genealogy
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11	Title:	Samuel Kleinman Family Photographs
	Creator:	Kleinman, Samuel Family
	Dates:	1900-1930
	Abstract:	Samuel Kleinman (1893-1972) immigrated to the United States from Poland at the age of 12. He worked as a stagehand in Cleveland, Ohio, a profession he pursued until late in his life. He and his wife Dorothy were the parents of four sons, among them Jack Kleinman, a World War II veteran who was one of the benefactors of the Regensburg 12, a group of Jewish children who were displaced persons after the war and whom he helped to survive after the war ended. Another one of his sons was Bennett, who became a well-known lawyer. The collection consists of one photograph album.
	Call #:	PG 590
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Actors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Jewish theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Kleinman family \| Kleinman, Samuel, 1893-1972 \| Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Theater, Yiddish -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Theater, Yiddish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. / Theater, Yiddish.
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12	Title:	Congregation Oer Chodosh Anshe Sfard Records
	Creator:	Congregation Oer Chodosh Anshe Sfard
	Dates:	1910-1994
	Abstract:	Congregation Oer Chodosh Anshe Sfard was an Orthodox Jewish synagogue founded in 1894 in Cleveland, Ohio by a group of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. The founding rabbi was Benjamin Gittelsohn. In 1919 the congregation split into three congregations; Oer Chodosh Anshe Sfard, Ahavath Zion, and Ohel Jacob Anshe Sfard. In 1952, Congregation Oer Chodosh Anshe Sfard built a synagogue in University Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. The congregation dissolved in the late 1990s. The collection consists of cemetery records, financial ledgers and statements, membership listings, and some administrative and program files.
	Call #:	MS 4820
	Extent:	1.60 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Congregation Oer Chodosh Anshe Sfard. \| Lansing Cemetery (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Warrensville Cemetery (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Park Synagogue Cemetery (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Orthodox Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Organization and administration. \| Jewish cemeteries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Cemeteries -- Recording -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cemeteries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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13	Title:	Joseph Hays Family Papers
	Creator:	Hays, Joseph Family
	Dates:	1857-1987
	Abstract:	Joseph Hays (1838-1916) was the son of Abraham and Bertha Hexter Hays of Storndorf, in the German state of Hesse Darmstadt. After Joseph's mother died in 1844, he and other family members immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, Abraham and Joseph arriving in 1856. Joseph Hays started as a peddler and eventually became involved in the clothing, scrap iron, and real estate business. He married Rosetta Schwarzenberg, and had five children. His daughter, Bertha, married Charles Eisenman, co-founder of Kastriner and Eisenman, later Kaynee Company, a clothing manufacturer. Eisenman was also a founder and first president of the Federation of Jewish Charities (later known as the Jewish Community Federation). Joseph Hays' sons, Louis and Eugene Hays, later purchased Kaynee Company from Eisenman. Louis Hays, who had served as a vice president and trustee of Mt. Sinai Hospital, was president of Kaynee at the time of his death in 1918. His son, Robert, was president of Kaynee from 1937 until 1954, when the company was sold. Robert Hays was also a founding member of Suburban Temple. Louis Hays' wife, Jessie Seligman Feiss, was the niece and adopted daughter of Julius Feiss, owner of Joseph and Feiss Company, which manufactured clothing. His son, Paul Louis Feiss, served as chairman of the company, beginning in 1925. He was also a founder and first president of Mt. Sinai Hospital. The collection consists of correspondence, legal documents, an autobiography, a family history, speeches, genealogies, and miscellaneous materials.
	Call #:	MS 4595
	Extent:	0.90 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Hays, Joseph, 1838-1916. \| Hays family. \| Feiss family. \| Richman family. \| Lehman family. \| Eisenman family. \| Feiss, Paul Louis, 1875-1952. \| Hays, Louis Henry, 1874-1918. \| Eisenman, Charles, 1865-1923. \| Kastriner and Eisenman Company. \| Kaynee Company (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Joseph and Feiss Company (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. \| Jews, German -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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14	Title:	Cleveland Jewish History Sources
	Creator:	Cleveland Jewish History Sources
	Dates:	1819-1956
	Abstract:	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; Economic Life; Education; Political Affairs; Population; Sermons and Lectures; Social Life; Synagogues; Synagogue Related; Umbrella Organizations, and Zionism. Within these categories, primary and sometimes secondary sub-headings are arranged alphabetically and then chronologically. As prescribed by the AJHC, each research finding was typed on 4x6, un-ruled index cards and described in the following top-down order: top left, the city and chronological period; top right, topical classification; single line description of the finding; excerpt(s) from the finding. In many instances, the researchers stapled to the card photocopies of pertinent portions of the source material. The collection, however, contains exceptions to this general procedure: a number of 3x5 cards with handwritten entries (evidently, unprocessed research findings) and a number of 4x6 cards with attached paper negative photocopy, i.e., white-on-black and mirror-image text.
	Call #:	MS 4621
	Extent:	7.50 linear feet (15 containers)
	Subjects:	Kalisch, Isidor, 1816-1886. \| Hahn, Aaron. \| Mayer, Jacob. \| Gries, Moses J., 1868-1918. \| Machol, Michael, 1846-1914. \| Jewish Theological Seminary of America. American Jewish History Center. \| B'nai B'rith. \| Jewish Orphan Asylum (Cleveland, Ohio ) -- History. \| National Council of Jewish Women. Cleveland Section. \| Council Educational Alliance (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Council Religious Schools (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. \| Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Politics and government. \| Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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