Cleveland Jewish History: Eastern European Immigration & The Woodland Neighborhood

Cleveland Jewish History continues with our second episode exploring the major wave of Eastern European Jewish immigration to Cleveland between 1880 – 1920. Don't forget to view the first video in the series, The Pioneers    • Cleveland Jewish History: The Pioneers  . In 40 short years, Cleveland’s Jewish community grew dramatically from a few thousand German Jews who largely affiliated with Anshe Chesed and Tifereth Israel – today’s Fairmount Temple and the Temple Tifereth Israel. By 1920, Cleveland’s Jewish community grew to 90,000. This community largely lived in the Woodland Neighborhood which was filled with Jewish peddlers and small businesses. Traditional synagogues and small house minyans – referred to as shtieblach – dotted the community. The garment industry in Cleveland was largely Jewish owned at this time and thousands of Jews, Italians, Poles, and others worked at factories such as: Richman Brothers, Joseph & Feiss, and Bobby Brooks. Explore the hidden Jewish history of a Jewish neighborhood that was a major center of Jewish life in Cleveland at that time. This video series is sponsored by Cleveland Jewish Funerals https://www.clevelandjewishfunerals.c...