http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 XTF Search Results (subject=Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland.;subject-join=exact;smode=advanced;brand=default) http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?subject%3DJews%20--%20Education%20--%20Ohio%20--%20Cleveland.;subject-join%3Dexact;smode%3Dadvanced;brand%3Ddefault Results for your query: subject=Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland.;subject-join=exact;smode=advanced;brand=default Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT Alfred A Benesch School Scrapbooks. Alfred A. Benesch School http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5243.xml Alfred A. Benesch School in Cleveland, Ohio, began in 1884 as the Outhwaite School. It was renamed for a former graduate and Cleveland School Board member Alfred A. Benesch in 1962. The collection consists of two scrapbooks. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5243.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Armond E. Cohen Papers. Cohen, Armond E. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4957.xml Armond E. Cohen was a rabbi who served Park Synagogue, a large Conservative Jewish congregation in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, programs, reports, and writings. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4957.xml Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT Armond E. Cohen Papers, Series II. Cohen, Armond E. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5145.xml 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. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5145.xml Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT Armond E. Cohen Papers, Series III. Cohen, Armond E. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5409.xml 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 17 cassettes, 8 magnetic tapes, 5 pamphlets, and 8 photographs. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5409.xml Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education Records. Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3832.xml The Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education was organized in 1924 as the coordinating agency for the following Jewish educational institutions in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio, area: Cleveland Hebrew Schools, Hebrew Academy, United Jewish Religious Schools, Institute of Jewish Studies, Workmen's Circle School, and Yeshivath Adath BŲ¹nai Israel. The collection consists of correspondence, committee minutes, reports, financial records, scrapbooks, publications of the Bureau and its affiliated schools, and files of the Jewish Community Federation. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3832.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education Records, Series II. Bureau of Jewish Education http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4748.xml The Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education was organized in 1924 as the coordinating agency for the following Jewish educational institutions in the Greater Cleveland , Ohio, area: Cleveland Hebrew Schools, Hebrew Academy, United Jewish Religious Schools, Institute of Jewish Studies, Workmen's Circle School, and Yeshivath Adath B'nai Israel. The collection consists of minutes, reports, budgets, and correspondence. The bulk of the collection is from 1960-1970, allowing the researcher to study the effects of rapid secularization and assimilation within the Cleveland, Ohio Jewish community and the efforts by community institutions responding to these forces. Notable documentation on the Cleveland Hebrew Schools, Cleveland College of Jewish Studies, Hebrew Academy, and the Jewish Community Federation is included in these records. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4748.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Cleveland College of Jewish Studies Records. Cleveland College of Jewish Studies http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4826.xml The Cleveland College of Jewish Studies is a non-denominational institution of higher Jewish learning supported by the Jewish community of Cleveland, Ohio. Accredited by the state of Ohio, degree programs in Judaic studies are offered, as are lifelong learning programs on Jewish topics for adults. In 1947, two Cleveland institutions founded in the 1920s, the Jewish Teachers Institute and the Beth Midrash L'Morim (Hebrew Teacher Training School), merged to form the Cleveland Institute of Jewish Studies, under the auspices of the Bureau of Jewish Education. In 1952, the Cleveland Institute of Jewish Studies became an independent agency. Through the initiative of Rebecca Aronson Brickner, the institute became known as the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies in 1963. It shared space with the Bureau of Jewish Education in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, before occupying its own building in Beachwood, Ohio. The collection consists of record books of the Cleveland Institute of Jewish Studies; yearbooks, newsletters, cour... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4826.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Cleveland Hebrew Schools Records. Cleveland Hebrew Schools http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4620.xml The Cleveland Hebrew Schools evolved from the Montefiore Free Hebrew School (later called the Talmud Torah) established in Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1885. In 1905, another communal Hebrew school was founded by Joshua Flock and Aaron Garber. In 1907, the two schools combined, the name remaining the Talmud Torah. In 1913, the Talmud Torah received an Ohio charter and changed its name to the Cleveland Hebrew School and Institute, enrolling students in grades one through eight. Abraham Hayyim Friedland, an internationally known educator, headed the school from 1921-1939. In 1926, a high school was added, and a Parent Council was organized in 1930. Bernard Levitin served as superintendent from 1944-1970, a period of movement of Cleveland's Jewish population to the suburbs. A reorganization of the Cleveland Hebrew Schools took place during this period, with some Cleveland branches closing and new suburban schools opening. As the number of Jewish day schools and congregational classes grew, the Cleveland Hebrew Schools e... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4620.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT Cleveland Hebrew Schools Records and Photographs, Series II. Cleveland Hebrew Schools http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5359.xml Cleveland Hebrew Schools (CHS), officially founded in 1913, having roots back to 1885, provided an educational center for the Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish community until its closure in 2009. The collection includes school records and related documents from Cleveland Hebrew Schools, documenting changes throughout its history, including announcements, bank records, books, booklets, budgets, calendars, contracts, correspondence, curricula, employee records, enrollment records, financial records, government records, graduation records, journals, minute books, negatives, newsletters, photographs, reports, school records, song books, and tuition records. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5359.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT Cleveland Jewish History Sources, Series II. Herman, Shoshana http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5111.xml 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... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5111.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Educational League Records. Educational League http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4667.xml 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 Con... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4667.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Friends of Aaron Garber Library Records. Friends of the Aaron Garber Library http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5420.xml The primary mission of the Friends of the Aaron Garber Library was to promote and support the Aaron Garber Library of the Siegal College of Judaic Studies and continuing education in Jewish learning through programming, volunteer service, and fundraising. The secondary mission of the organization was to provide funds to the Mandel Jewish Community Center. The organization was active from the early 1960s through 2016. The collection consists of academic calendars, agendas, announcements, annual reports, budgets, bulletins, bylaws, calendars, catalogs, certificates, correspondence, flyers, forms, information packets, invitations, marketing materials, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, outlines, color and black and white photographs (31), press releases, programs, proposals, rosters, scrapbooks, and workbooks. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5420.xml Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT Fuchs Mizrachi School Records. Fuchs Mizrachi School http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4836.xml Fuchs Mizrachi School is an Orthodox Jewish day school, preschool through grade 12, located in University Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. The school, founded in 1983 as Bet Sefer Mizrachi of Cleveland, was renamed Fuchs Bet Sefer Mizrachi in 1994 in honor of benefactors Susan and Leonard Fuchs; in 1999 it was renamed Fuchs Mizrachi School. It was established by a group of Zionist Orthodox Jewish friends, all with young children. Its curriculum included political and religious Zionism, Orthodox Judaism, modern Hebrew, and secular studies. After 8 years of renting space at Taylor Road Synagogue and Taylor Academy in Cleveland Heights and at Northwood Elementary School in University Heights, the school purchased the former Northwood Elementary School in 1994. The collection consists of minutes, newsletters, yearbooks, and scrapbooks. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4836.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Fuchs Mizrachi School Records, Series II. Fuchs Mizrachi School http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4932.xml Fuchs Mizrachi School (f. 1983) is an Orthodox Jewish Day School, preschool-Grade 12, located in the former Northwood Elementary School in University Heights, Ohio. The school, originally called Bet Sefer Mizrachi of Cleveland, was renamed Fuchs Bet Sefer Mizrachi in 1994 and is currently called Fuchs Mizrachi School. After extensive remodeling, the school made the move to Northwood Elementary in 1997. The collection consists of yearbooks, including one on floppy disc; programs of events such as the annual meeting and fundraising dinners; photographs of the various stages of the school remodeling and of the graduating classes of 2002 and 2004. There are also minutes of various school committees. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4932.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Jewish Secular Community of Cleveland Records. Jewish Secular Community of Cleveland http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4498.xml The Jewish Secular Community is a Cleveland, Ohio, group founded in 1971 to provide a non-religious Jewish education for their children, emphasizing Jewish history, literature, culture and tradition. In addition, the organization sponsored adult education activities, holiday observances, life cycle ceremonies and included a social action committee. The collection consists of administrative records, copies of texts for B'nai Mitzvah and holiday ceremonies, and materials relating to national Jewish secular community organizations. Included are membership lists, newsletters, board minutes, school records, correspondence and news clippings. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4498.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Jewish Secular Community of Cleveland Records, Series II. Jewish Secular Community of Cleveland http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5138.xml The Jewish Secular Community of Cleveland, Ohio (f. 1967), is a group whose members share with other Jews a common history, literature, culture, and tradition without necessarily having a belief in God. The group's founding members were drawn together by their desire to offer their children a Jewish education outside of the existing religious institutions and their earliest efforts were focused upon the development of a school. By the mid-1970s, however, adult education, holiday observances, and life cycle ceremonies had been introduced and a social action committee had been formed. The collection consists of board meeting minutes, newsletters, membership rosters, curriculums, and programs from events the organization has hosted, as well as a collection of the papers of Mark Weber, one of the group's most active members. This collection is of value to researchers studying ethnic and religious groups and institutions in the United States in general, and in Cleveland, Ohio, in particular. Of interest are minu... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5138.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Julie Auerbach Family Papers. Gift of Julie Auerbach http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5453.xml Julie Jaslow Auerbach received her Masters of Arts in Jewish Studies from the Cleveland College of Judaic Studies. She was the Director of Jewish Family & Adult Education at the Gross Schechter Day School. She was formerly a Curriculum Associate at the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland and a Senior Educator for Melitz. Currently, Auerbach lives part of the year in Shaker Heights and part of the year in Jerusalem, and as of 2019 was writing regularly about life in Israel for the Cleveland Jewish News. Walter Jaslow was born in 1922. In 1981, Walter Jaslow spearheaded the Jewish Chaplaincy Hospital visitation program at University Hospitals (UH). He served as chaplain at the old Montefiore Home on Mayfield Road until his retirement in 1996. In the last years of his life, Jaslow volunteered at Menorah Park, where he took great joy in playing music for residents. Jaslow died on September 27, 2000 at age 78 in Cleveland. The Julie Auerbach Family Papers collection consists of agendas, awards, a ... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5453.xml Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies Records. Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5126.xml The Cleveland College of Jewish Studies was a non-denominational institution of higher Jewish learning supported by the Jewish community of Cleveland, Ohio. Accredited by the state of Ohio, degree programs in Judaic studies are offered, as are lifelong learning programs on Jewish topics for adults. In 1947, two Cleveland institutions founded in the 1920s, the Jewish Teachers Institute and the Beth Midrash L'Morim (Hebrew Teacher Training School), merged to form the Cleveland Institute of Jewish Studies, under the auspices of the Bureau of Jewish Education. In 1952, the Cleveland Institute of Jewish Studies became an independent agency. Through the initiative of Rebecca Aronson Brickner, the institute became known as the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies in 1963. It shared space with the Bureau of Jewish Education in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, before occupying its own building in Beachwood, Ohio. In 2002, the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies underwent another name change. To honor benefactors Laura and Al... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5126.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies Records and Photographs, Series II. Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5428.xml The Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952 as the Cleveland Institute of Jewish Studies which later became the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies. In 2012 Siegal College and Case Western Reserve University announced that they had combined their adult education programs into a new initiative, the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University. This announcement marked the closure of the College. The collection consists of agendas, agreements, announcements, annual reports, applications, brochures, budgets, calendars, certificates, contracts, correspondence, course catalogs, curricula, evaluations, forms, handbooks, invitations, lists, manuals, minutes, monographs, notes, photographs, policies, press releases, programs, proposals, reports, rosters, scrapbooks, strategic plan, student papers, surveys, syllabi, and theses. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5428.xml Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT Louis Rosenblum Papers, Series II. Rosenblum, Louis http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5156.xml Louis Rosenblum (b. 1923) directed the Solar and Electrochemistry Division at the Glenn (formerly Lewis) Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Cleveland, Ohio. Rosenblum was born in Brooklyn, New York, began his higher education at Brooklyn College in 1941, and enlisted and served in the U.S. Army Infantry from 1943 to 1946. Rosenblum served in the Pacific Theater, fought in the battle for Okinawa, was awarded the bronze star, and at the conclusion of hostilities served in the army of occupation in Japan. In 1948, he graduated from Brooklyn College with a B.S. in Organic Chemistry and began employment at NASA. In 1963, Rosenblum and fellow members of Beth Israel-The West Temple, a Cleveland synagogue, founded the Cleveland Council on Soviet Anti-Semitism. Rosenblum served as the CCSA's chairman. In 1970, the CCSA joined with five other grass-root councils to create the Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry (UCSJ), which became the largest independent Soviet Jewry organiza... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5156.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Nili Adler Papers. Adler, Nili http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5374.xml Nili Adler (1942-2014), a Hebrew teacher and educator, worked as head of the Hebrew Department for the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies (after 2002, Siegal College of Judaic Studies). She also led Akiva High School, a supplementary educational program for Jewish high school students offering courses in Hebrew language and Jewish cultural programming. The collection consists of agendas, booklets, contributions acknowledgments, correspondence, course listings, curriculum guidelines, evaluations, flyers, graduation programs, handbooks, lesson plans, lists, manuals, memoranda, minutes, newspaper clippings, notes, a photograph, proficiency tests, program descriptions and evaluations, proposals, reports, speeches, and syllabi. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5374.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT Numbers 2000 Records. Numbers 2000 http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5121.xml 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 We... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5121.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Rebecca Aronson Brickner Papers. Brickner, Rebecca Aronson http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4776.xml Rebecca Aronson Brickner was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Her parents, Max and Dora Aronson, followed Orthodox Jewish practices and had strong ties to the Zionist movement. She received a rigorous Jewish education with Dr. Samson Benderley, and in 1910 accompanied him, as his Hebrew secretary, to New York City, where he established the Bureau of Jewish Education. While in New York, she became the first woman to complete a new program in Jewish education at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and the first woman with a professional degree in Jewish education in the United States. She married Barnett R. Brickner in 1919, accompanying him first to Cincinnati, Ohio, where be studied for the rabbinate at Hebrew Union College, and then to Toronto where his first pulpit was located. While living in Toronto, she established Hadassah in Canada; in 1912 she had been a founding member of Hadassah in the United States with Henrietta Szold. The Brickners came to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1925, where Rabbi Brickner was to lead Ansh... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4776.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Solomon Schechter Day School of Cleveland Records. Solomon Schechter Day School of Cleveland http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4831.xml The Solomon Schechter Day School of Cleveland, Ohio, is a day school affiliated with the Conservative movement of Judaism for children from preschool through eighth grade. It was founded in 1980. The school was housed at Congregation Beth Am in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, from 1980-1983; Greenview School in South Euclid, Ohio, from 1983-1990; and Park Synagogue in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, from 1990-1993. In 1993, it moved to the former Malvern Elementary School in Shaker Heights, Ohio. In 2000, ground was broken for a new building on land adjacent to and leased from B'nai Jeshurun Congregation in Pepper Pike, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, newsletters, brochures, and financial statements. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4831.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT Study of secondary and higher Jewish education in Cleveland. Pilch, Judah., Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education (Cleveland, Ohio) http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT United Jewish Religious Schools Records. United Jewish Religious Schools http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4628.xml The United Jewish Religious Schools (Cleveland, Ohio) trace their origins to the Council Religious School, organized by the Cleveland Council of Jewish Women in 1894 to provide a Sabbath school for immigrant children. In 1901, several congregations joined the Council of Jewish Women in funding the school, and in 1918 high school classes were established. In 1928, the Jewish Welfare Federation of Cleveland included the Council Schools in its budget. In 1947, the Council Schools, along with 6 branches, were renamed the United Jewish Religious Schools and became affiliated with the Bureau of Jewish Education. As the Jewish population moved to the suburbs, the Schools closed branches and established new ones. In 1970, three branches remained. The collection consists of board of trustee minutes, reports, budgets, and correspondence; and subject files including bulletins, correspondence, studies, reports, enrollment lists, financial records, histories, teaching materials, and staff lists. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4628.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Workmen's Circle of Cleveland Records, Series III. Workmen's Circle of Cleveland http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5088.xml The Workmen's Circle of Cleveland, Ohio (f. 1904) is a secular Jewish fraternal organization formed in the United States to perpetuate Yiddish language and culture, support and promote a liberal political agenda, offer both health and death benefits, and provide a meeting place for fellowship. Its Yiddish cultural programming includes lectures, readings, concerts, third Passover Seders, and the I.L. Peretz Workmen's Circle School, a supplementary program for children. Following World War II and the Holocaust and the continuing acculturation into American life of the descendants of its Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrant founders, the Workmen's Circle, in Cleveland and nationwide, has been experiencing significant and continuous loss of membership. The Workmen's Circle's group health plan and death benefits, both of which are available on a non-sectarian basis, are the major source of membership. The collection consists of correspondence, ledgers, membership lists, minutes, and programs. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5088.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Yeshivath Adath B'nai Israel Records. Yeshivath Adath B'nai Israel http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3834.xml Yeshivath Adath B'nai Israel was incorporated in 1917 as an Orthodox afternoon Hebrew school in Cleveland, Ohio. It later merged with the Oheb Zedek School (1948), the Torah Institute of the Telshe Yeshivath (1949), and the Kinsman, Marmarosher, and Heights Jewish Centers in 1951, 1956 and 1958 respectively. The collection consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, constitution, articles of incorporation, teacher and student records, budgets, tax and payroll records, ledgers, insurance and membership records, yearbooks, and records of other Hebrew schools, Yeshivath Adath B'nai Israel branches, and institutions associated with Yeshivath Adath B'nai Israel, such as the Bureau of Jewish Education and the Jewish Community Federation. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3834.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT