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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

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.

Table of 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