 Access and Provenance
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A Finding Aid to theJews
of Cincinnati Collection
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The Jews of Cincinnati Collection was donated by Nancy Klein, Cincinnati, Ohio, in December, 1989 and January, 1990. Correspondence of Robert Philip Goldman (Manuscript Collection Number 31) and James Magrish (Manuscript Collection Number 198) have been removed to their manuscript collections. All papers donated prior to August 2008 have been arranged and described in this inventory.
Nancy Klein, by the act of donating the Jews of Cincinnati Collection to the American Jewish Archives, assigned the property rights to the American Jewish Archives. All literary rights to materials authored by an individual are retained by the individual and their heirs. Questions concerning rights should be addressed to the Executive Director of the American Jewish Archives.The collection is open to all users and available in the reading room of the American Jewish Archives.
COLLECTION SKETCH
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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.
The 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.
Full Citation
Sarna, Jonathan D. and Nancy H. Klein. The Jews of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Ohio: Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience, 1989.SCOPE AND CONTENT
The Jews of Cincinnati, a book 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 series. 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 in the research files series, and contain 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 1824-1989.
ARRANGEMENT
The papers are divided into two (2) series:
A. MANUSCRIPT SOURCES
B. RESEARCH FILESSERIES A. MANUSCRIPT SOURCES consist of 2 Hollinger boxes of xerox copies of documents and the text for the book Jews of Cincinnati. Documents range from newspaper articles to photographs or items such as immigration papers. Span dates are 1840-1989. The series is arranged in chapter order with the final manuscript sources followed by the cut material.
SERIES B. RESEARCH FILES consist of 15 Hollinger boxes of xerox copies of articles documents, notes, photographs and nearprint collected in the process of writing this manuscript. Span dates are 1824-1989. Of interest in this series are material relating to the Goldman, Krohn and Magrish families. The series is arranged alphabetically by subject title. Within each subject, materials are arranged chronologically.
BOX AND FOLDER LIST
Box Folder Contents SERIES A. MANUSCRIPT SOURCES. 1840-1989. 1 1 Sources. Chapter 1 - Chapter 2. 2 Sources. Chapter 3 - Chapter 5. 3 Sources. Chapter 6. 4 Unused source material. Chapter 2 5 Unused source material. Chapter 2. 6 Unused source material. Chapter 3. 2 1 Unused source material. Chapter 4. 2 Unused source material. Chapter 5. 3 Unused source material. Chapter 5. 4 Unused source material. Chapter 6. 5 Unused source material. Chapter 6. 6 Unused source material. Chapter 6. SERIES B. RESEARCH FILES. 1824-1989. 3 1 Biographies. 1895-1988. 2 Biographies. 1895-1988. 3 Biographies. Who’s Who. 1927-1989. 4 Cincinnati and World Jewry. 1840-1989. 5 Cincinnati and World Jewry. 1840-1989. 4 1 Cincinnati Presence. 1926-1987. 2 Fechheimer family. Photographs. 1882-1910; n.d. 3 Goldman family. Photographs. 1870-1979; n.d. 4 Intergroup relations. 1874-1989. 5 Intergroup relations. 1874-1989. 6 Jewish Federation. (Cincinnati, Ohio) Photographs. 1962-1974; n.d. 7 Jewish Federation. (Cincinnati, Ohio) Photographs. 1962-1974; n.d. 5 1 Jewish Federation. (Cincinnati, Ohio) Photographs. 1962-1974; n.d. 2 Jewish Federation. (Cincinnati, Ohio) Photographs. 1962-1974; n.d. 3 Jewish Federation. (Cincinnati, Ohio) Photographs. 1962-1974; n.d. 4 Jewish Federation. (Cincinnati, Ohio) Photographs. 1962-1974; n.d. 6 1 Jewish Federation. (Cincinnati, Ohio) Photographs. 1962-1974; n.d. 2 Jewish Federation. (Cincinnati, Ohio) Photographs. 1962-1974; n.d. 3 Jewish Federation. (Cincinnati, Ohio) Photographs. 1962-1974; n.d. 4 Krohn family. Photographs. 1870-1919; n.d. 7 1 Magrish, James and Edith (Krohn). Family photographs. 1900-1909. 2 Magrish, James and Edith (Krohn). Family photographs. 1910-1919. 3 Magrish, James and Edith (Krohn). Family photographs. 1920-1929. 4 Magrish, James and Edith (Krohn). Family photographs. 1930-1939. 5 Magrish, James and Edith (Krohn). Family photographs. Album.1931-1939. 6 Magrish, James and Edith (Krohn). Family photographs. 1940-1949. 7 Magrish, James and Edith (Krohn). Family photographs. House album. 1940-1942. 8 1 Magrish, James and Edith (Krohn). Family photographs. n.d. 9 1 Magrish, James and Edith (Krohn). Family photographs. 1950-1959. 2 Magrish, James and Edith (Krohn). Family photographs. 1960-1969. 3 Magrish, James and Edith (Krohn). Family photographs. 1970-1979. 4 Newspaper. 1949. 5 Obituaries. 1882-1915. 6 Political life. 1891-1971. 7 Volunteerism.1887-1988. 8 Wolfenstein, David. Autobiography. n.d. 9 Wolfenstein, David. Correspondence with King, Mary Gibbs. 1942. 10 Wolfenstein family. Photographs. 1870-1980; n.d. 10 1 Businesses. 2 Businesses. 3 Congregations (A-B). 4 Congregations (C-K). 11 1 Congregations (K-N). 2 Congregations (O-V). 3 Congregations. 1824-1869. 4 Congregations. 1870-1950. 12 1 Congregations. 1952-1989. 2 Culture and Leisure. 3 Culture and Leisure. 4 Culture and Leisure. 5 Culture and Leisure. 6 Education. 13 1 Education. 2 Education. 3 Education. 4 Hebrew Union College. 5 Philanthropy. 1820-1920. 14 1 Philanthropy. 1910-1980. 2 Photographs (Copies). 3 Photographs (Copies). 4 Photographs (Copies). 15 1 Photographs (Copies). 2 Pioneers. 1788-1839. 3 Religious Affairs (Mikveh, Mixed seating, etc.). 16 1-3 Brochures. 17 1 Brochures. 2 Newspaper clippings. 3-6 Miscellaneous.