Publications sponsored by the WRHS that highlight the holdings of the Cleveland Jewish Archives include the following: 

Merging Traditions: Jewish Life in Cleveland, by Rubinstein and Jane Avner (2004)

The Camp Wise Story, 1907-1988, by Albert M. Brown (1989)

What I Remember: Clevelanders Recall the Shtetl, compiled and edited by Goldie Lake (1985)

Guide to Jewish History Sources in the History Library of the Western Reserve Historical Society (1983; and supplement, 2000)

The History of the Jews of Cleveland, by Lloyd P. Gartner (1978)

Visit our library to use these publications in person or purchase them from Past and Presents, the WRHS gift shop.   

Simson and Regina Klein Thorman were two of the earliest Jewish settlers in Cleveland. Simson, a fur trapper from Unsleben, Bavaria settled in Cleveland in 1837; Regina joined him in 1839.