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  • Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community
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  • Sean Martin is the author of Jewish Life in Cracow, 1918-1939 (Vallentine Mitchell, 2004) and A Stitch in Time: The Cleveland Garment Industry (Western Reserve Historical Society, 2015), and author and editor of For the Good of the Nation: Institutions fo
  • 2020
  • Published by: Rutgers University Press
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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Foreword
  2. Stephen H. Hoffman
  3. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Introduction. Cleveland and Its Jews: New Perspectives on Communal History
  2. Eli Lederhendler
  3. pp. 1-13
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  1. Chapter 1. “A Link in the Great American Chain”: The Evolution of Jewish Orthodoxy in Cleveland to 1940
  2. Ira Robinson
  3. pp. 14-34
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  1. Chapter 2. Jewish Philanthropy in Cleveland to 1990
  2. David C. Hammack
  3. pp. 35-57
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  1. Chapter 3. Abraham Hayyim Friedland and the Context, Structures, and Content of Jewish Education
  2. Sylvia F. Abrams and Lifsa Schachter
  3. pp. 58-79
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  1. Chapter 4. Everyman vs. Superman: Harvey Pekar, Comics, and Cleveland
  2. Samantha Baskind
  3. pp. 80-101
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  1. Chapter 5. Ethnic Identity and Local Politics: Abba Hillel Silver as a Community Leader and International Politician in Cleveland, 1940–1950
  2. Zohar Segev
  3. pp. 102-121
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  1. Chapter 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
  2. Mary McCune
  3. pp. 122-141
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  1. Chapter 7. Trepidation, Tolerance, and Turnover: Jewish-Black Relations in Cleveland Neighborhoods, 1920–1960
  2. Todd M. Michney
  3. pp. 142-161
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  1. Chapter 8. Jewish Suburbanization and Jewish Presence in the “City without Jews”
  2. J. Mark Souther
  3. pp. 162-182
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  1. Chapter 9. Suburban Temple and the Creation of Postwar American Judaism
  2. Rachel Gordan
  3. pp. 183-202
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  1. Chapter 10. People-to-People: Cleveland’s Jewish Community and the Exodus of Soviet Jews
  2. Shaul Kelner
  3. pp. 203-222
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  1. Afterword
  2. Sean Martin
  3. pp. 223-226
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. 227-228
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  1. Notes on Contributors
  2. pp. 229-230
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 231-242
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