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“A Link in the Great American Chain" : Studies in the Evolution of the Orthodox Jewish Community in Cleveland, Ohio / Ira Robinson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (152 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9798887191522
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296.8/320977132 23/eng/20230119
LOC classification:
  • BM225.C554 R63 2023
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 1 The Evolution of Jewish Orthodoxy in Cleveland to 1941 -- CHAPTER 2 The Evolution of the Orthodox Jewish Community in Cleveland, Ohio, 1941 to the Present -- CHAPTER 3 Hasid and Maskil: The Hasidic Tales of a Cleveland Yiddish Journalist -- CHAPTER 4 A “Jewish Monkey Trial”: The Cleveland Jewish Center and the Emerging Borderline between Orthodox and Conservative Judaism in 1920s North America -- CHAPTER 5 The New Haven Yeshiva, 1923–1937: An Experiment in American Jewish Education -- CHAPTER 6 “The Second Destruction of Cleveland Orthodox Synagogues”: Rabbi Israel Porath and Cleveland Jewry at the Crossroads, 1945 -- Index
Summary: This book brings together six articles the author has published in recent years on the development of the Orthodox Jewish community in Cleveland, Ohio. While a number of scholars have ably presented important parts of the history of Jewish Orthodoxy in Cleveland, Ohio, this book is a first attempt to deal comprehensively with the story of Cleveland Orthodox Judaism. Chapters one and two, taken together, present a connected narrative history of the evolution of the Jewish Orthodox community in Cleveland, Ohio from its beginnings to the early twenty-first century. The succeeding chapters present in greater detail persons and institutions of great importance to the historical development of the Orthodox community.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 1 The Evolution of Jewish Orthodoxy in Cleveland to 1941 -- CHAPTER 2 The Evolution of the Orthodox Jewish Community in Cleveland, Ohio, 1941 to the Present -- CHAPTER 3 Hasid and Maskil: The Hasidic Tales of a Cleveland Yiddish Journalist -- CHAPTER 4 A “Jewish Monkey Trial”: The Cleveland Jewish Center and the Emerging Borderline between Orthodox and Conservative Judaism in 1920s North America -- CHAPTER 5 The New Haven Yeshiva, 1923–1937: An Experiment in American Jewish Education -- CHAPTER 6 “The Second Destruction of Cleveland Orthodox Synagogues”: Rabbi Israel Porath and Cleveland Jewry at the Crossroads, 1945 -- Index

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This book brings together six articles the author has published in recent years on the development of the Orthodox Jewish community in Cleveland, Ohio. While a number of scholars have ably presented important parts of the history of Jewish Orthodoxy in Cleveland, Ohio, this book is a first attempt to deal comprehensively with the story of Cleveland Orthodox Judaism. Chapters one and two, taken together, present a connected narrative history of the evolution of the Jewish Orthodox community in Cleveland, Ohio from its beginnings to the early twenty-first century. The succeeding chapters present in greater detail persons and institutions of great importance to the historical development of the Orthodox community.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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