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Introduction

Collection Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Organization

Arrangement

Restrictions

Separated Material

Administrative Information

Series A: Manuscript Sources. 1840-1989.

Series B: Research Files. 1840-1989.

An Inventory to the 

Jews of Cincinnati Collection

1840-1989

Manuscript Collection No. 676

Collection Sketch

Jews of Cincinnati, published in 1989, was sponsored by a number of Jewish Cincinnati groups including the Study for the American Jewish Experience at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. It was the first published history of the Cincinnati Jewish community. The work took earlier sources, both print and graphic, and put them into context, instead of writing an extensive narrative. The history does not focus on specific families or specific institutions. Instead, it takes a sampling of several and presents it all in a chronological fashion.

Jews of Cincinnati was compiled and authored by Nancy Klein, who was employed by the Jewish Bureau of Education for Cincinnati and Jonathan Sarna, then a professor of history at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

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Scope and Content Note

Jews of Cincinnati, published in 1989, documents the history of the Cincinnati, Ohio Jewish experience from its roots in 1814 until the time of publication. The history focuses on the Jewish community instead of the Jewish contribution to the larger Cincinnati community. The material found in the manuscript sources series provides citations for materials borrowed or copied out of collections in various archives including the American Jewish Archives and individual donors. Additional materials on topics such as the Joseph Friedman-Peter Still case, can be found in the cut materials section of the manuscript sources. Corresponding with the book's organization, materials are grouped chronologically. Within the chapter folders, materials are not neccessarily organized into any particular order.

Materials in the collection include xeroxes of newsclippings and other manuscript sources. These documents are arranged according to theme, and contains both included and excluded material from the final manuscript. While there are some notes, the series consists primarily of the copied documents. The research files series also contains family photograph collections donated as part of the project. There are original family photographs for a number of prominent Cincinnati families including the Fechheimer, Goldman, Krohn, Magrish, and Wolfenstein families as well as the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. The span dates for the collection are 1840-1989.

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Arrangement

See description of individual series.

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Restrictions

Access Information

The Jews in Cincinnati Collection is open to all users and available in the reading room of the American Jewish Archives.

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Separated Material

Correspondence of Robert Philip Goldman (Manuscript Collection No. 31) and James Magrish (Manuscript Collection No. 198) have been removed and placed into their manuscript collections

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Administrative Information

Citations

Footnotes and bibliographic references should refer to the Jews of Cincinnati Collection and the American Jewish Archives.

Provenance

The Jews of Cincinnati Collection was donated by Nancy Klein, Cincinnati, Ohio in December 1989 and January 1990.

Processing Information

Processed by Melinda McMartin, February, 2002.

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Box and Folder Listing

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