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• W4285191938 abstract "Reviewed by: Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community ed. by Sean Martin and John J. Grabowski Deborah R. Weiner (bio) Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community. Edited by Sean Martin and John J. Grabowski. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020. vii + 230 pp. This collection presents ten essays that cover various topics related to the Jews of Cleveland. The grab-bag nature of the collection prevents it from providing a comprehensive view of the community, but a few things do stand out. Three essays examine suburbanization, each with a different focus. Todd M. Michney explores Jewish demographic movement from 1920 to 1960 in the context of Jewish-Black relations, telling a familiar story of trepidation, tolerance, and turnover (142). J. Mark Souther focuses on how Jewish institutions responded to the movement of Jews into suburbia during the mid-twentieth century. He concludes that Jewish leaders, while not leading the way, demonstrated a willingness to embrace suburbanization and used the opportunity to turn Jewish institutions into social gathering points that would provide the cohesion lost with the abandonment of densely Jewish urban neighborhoods (164). Rachel Gordan, writing about the prestigious Suburban Temple (founded in 1948), provides a case study of one such institution. Interestingly, a desire to bolster Jewish identity and provide a meaningful Jewish experience led the congregation's leaders not only to embrace an extremely liberal, classical Reform-tinged Judaism at a time when other Reform congregations were starting to turn back toward tradition, but it also led them to opt for exclusivity, limiting their membership numbers in order to cultivate a unified, intimate feeling (188). Given the amount of attention devoted to suburbia, it is a bit disappointing that the essays do not offer an explanation for why Cleveland Jews moved out of the city earlier than in other places. Several mentions are made of the fact that Cleveland was known as a city without Jews as early as 1962. It would be edifying to learn about the specific factors in the Cleveland milieu that led to this result. Indeed, the essays in this collection tend to confirm and deepen our understanding of patterns in American Jewish history rather than depart from them. David C. Hammack's essay on Jewish philanthropy from the nineteenth century up to 1990 covers funding for synagogues and other Jewish institutions, the development of a federation, donations to worldwide Jewish causes, and local civic philanthropy. Sylvia F. Abrams and Lifsa Schachter examine the professionalization of Jewish education in the 1920s and 1930s by highlighting the leadership role played by Cleveland educator Abraham Hayyim Friedland. Shaul Kelner discusses [End Page 93] the Cleveland Jewish community's involvement in the Soviet Jewry movement, noting Cleveland's early leadership in the campaign. Ira Robinson traces the evolution of Orthodoxy in Cleveland up to 1940 and finds the movement, as elsewhere, beset with problems, from a lack of interest on the part of the younger generation to internal strife to battles over kashrut certification. His essay ends before the arrival of the Telshe Yeshiva, whose leaders fled Lithuania and reestablished in Cleveland in 1941; it would have been interesting to learn how the renowned institution affected the existing Orthodox community. Engaging with current historiographical trends, Mary McCune examines the impact of feminism on the Cleveland branch of the National Council of Jewish Women and finds evidence to support recent scholarship challenging the first wave and second wave narrative in favor of a more complex and multidimensional story (123). She reminds us that it is necessary to look beyond the coasts to get a true picture of how American Jewish women acted to advance women's rights through the decades. Finally, two essays focus on singular—and singularly different—personalities. Samantha Baskind's piece on much-admired comic book writer Harvey Pekar describes how he expressed his firm commitment to both his Jewishness and Clevelandness in his work and compares the irascible Pekar to the more famous Cleveland Jewish comic book writers Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, creators of Superman (90). She also explores what Pekar's local (posthumous) popularity says about his hometown. Zohar Segev takes on the life and career..." @default.
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