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