Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community

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 for Jewish Children in Interwar Poland (Academic Studies Press, 2017).  JOHN J. GRABOWSKI is the editor of the on-line edition of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History and the Dictionary of Cleveland Biography, and co-editor of Cleveland: A Tradition of Reform (Kent State University Press, 1986) and Identity, Conflict & Cooperation: Central Europeans in Cleveland, 1850-1930 (Western Reserve Historical Society 2002).

Contents
Foreword
Stephen H. Hoffman
Introduction: Cleveland and its Jews: New Perspectives on Communal History
Eli Lederhendler
Chapter 1: “A Link in the Great American Chain”: The Evolution of Jewish Orthodoxy in Cleveland to 1940
Ira Robinson
Chapter 2: Jewish Philanthropy in Cleveland to 1990
David C. Hammack
Chapter 3: Abraham Hayyim Friedland and the Context, Structures, and Content of Jewish Education
Sylvia Abrams and Lifsa Schachter
Chapter 4: Everyman vs. Superman: Harvey Pekar, Comics, and Cleveland
Samantha Baskind
Chapter 5: Ethnic Identity and Local Politics: Abba Hillel Silver as Community Leader and International Politician in Cleveland, 1940-1950
Zohar Segev
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
Mary McCune
Chapter 7: Trepidation, Tolerance, and Turnover: Jewish-Black Relations in Cleveland Neighborhoods, 1920-1960
Todd Michney
Chapter 8: Jewish Suburbanization and Jewish Presence in the “City without Jews”
Mark Souther
Chapter 9: Suburban Temple and the Creation of Postwar American Judaism
Rachel Gordan
Chapter 10: People-to-People: Cleveland’s Jewish Community and the Exodus of Soviet Jews
Shaul Kelner
Afterword
Sean Martin
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index