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KAPLANI HELGA EUGENIE
1 CENTURY OF ADJUSTMENT: A HlSTORY OF THE
-AKRON JEYlSH COMMUNITY. 1065-1915.
- KENT STATE UNlYERSlTV~ PH-0.9 1978
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@ 1979
i-EILA EUGENIE KAFL'REI
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CEillllRY OF ADJUS'IllENT: A HISTORY OF THE
AKRON JEWISH C~#IU.\RINITY,1 865-1975
A dissertation submitted to the
Kent State University Graduate College
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
by
flelga. Euganie Kaplan
Deceabcr, 1978
Dissertation written by
Helga Eugenie Kaplan
B.A., Nichigan State University, 1956
N.A., University of Chicago, 1957
Ph.D., Kent State University, 1978
Approved by
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, Chairman, Doctoral Dissertation Committee
, tlembers, Doctoral Dissertation Committee
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Accepted by
, Chairman, Department of History
, Dean, Graduate College
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To my father and mother. They too made the journey,
PREFACE
In his classic work, The Uprooted (1951), Oscar Handlin stopped
looking at the impact of immigration on American society and focused
instead on the immigration experience as it affected the participants
themselves. In the past two decades, students of Jewish immigration
have probed more deeply into this adjustment process, studying Jews in
their local communities across the country. As one Jewish scholar re-
marked, . . . before the definitive history of the Jews of the United
"
. . . . . .
States is to be written the lacunae of local, communal, and
regional histories must be written--the empty gaps must be filled in.'"
Efforts in this direction have been atteqted with varying degrees of
scholarship and by variously qualified researchers--from local merchants
to historians--and range from brief narrative accounts to extensive
team-supported research. A major undertaking in this field of communal
study has recently emerged in :hc .:cgionzl History Series of the American
Jewish History Center of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Under the distinguished editorial direction of Salo Baron. t.loshe Davis.
and Allan Nevins, six diverse and significant Jewish communities were
selected for study, among them Cleveland, Ohio.
The Cleveland study, in process until :his manuscript was vir-
tually complete, joins such other recent historical work on Ohio Jewry
as a dissertation on the Jews of Toledo and an oral history project in
~olumbus.T~h is study, then, is an.attempt to fill in some of the
remaining gaps in the emergin: story of Jewish life in Ohio. The