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Broadway–Slavic Village is a neighborhood on the Southeast side of Cleveland, Ohio. One of the city's oldest neighborhoods, it originated as the township of Newburgh, first settled in 1799. [4] [5] Much of the area has historically served as home to Cleveland's original Czech and Polish immigrants.
The first Czech neighborhoods in Cleveland were on the east bank of the Cuyahoga River in an area bounded by Hill, Cross, and Commercial streets. [ 24 ] [ d ] By 1853, two more small Czech communities had been built on west bank of the Cuyahoga River south of Ohio City , in what are now the Clark-Fulton and Brooklyn Centre neighborhoods. [ 24 ]
Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple (transliterated from Hebrew as "People of Loving Kindness"), commonly called the Fairmount Temple, was a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 23737 Fairmount Boulevard, in Beachwood, Ohio, in the United States. The congregation was the oldest Jewish congregation in the Cleveland area through mid ...
Reid started documenting Lancaster's Jewish history for a history class at Capital University in 2017, where he also converted to Judaism. Since then, he’s completed Jewish histories for 20 Ohio ...
The author likened the scattered camps to "a chain of islands", and as an eyewitness, he described the Gulag as a system where people were worked to death. [16] In March 1940, there were 53 Gulag camp directorates (simply referred to as "camps") and 423 labor colonies in the Soviet Union. [4]
University Circle was known during the early 19th century as Doan’s Corners, after Nathanial Doan, a member of the Connecticut Land Company, who settled his family and started a community there. [16] The name "University Circle" began to take shape in the 1880s. Western Reserve University moved its campus from Hudson, Ohio, to Euclid Avenue ...
The dome of Park Synagogue's former Cleveland Heights building, designed by Erich Mendelsohn, since vacated.. The following summer, in 1943, a day care and nursery school began functioning there, and an adjacent lot of 21 acres (8.5 ha) was purchased from John D. Rockefeller - thus forming a magnificent property with a creek and ravine running through it.
Thirty-seven rescuers were indicted, but as a result of state and federal negotiations, only two were tried in federal court. The case received national attention, and defendants argued eloquently against the law. When rescue allies went to the 1859 Ohio Republican convention, they added a repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law to the party platform ...