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Title	Hebrew Cultural Garden Photograph
Subject	Religion in Ohio Immigration and Ethnic Heritage Arts and Entertainment Plants and Animals Gardens Poets Columns Philosophers Fountains Umbrellas Trees Jews--United States
Place	Cleveland (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description	Three photographs show the Hebrew Cultural Garden in Cleveland, which was dedicated in 1926. The dedication coincided with the visit of poet Chime Nichimen Bialy. The garden symbolizes the Star of David. In the center of the garden is a marble fountain on seven marble pillars, representing the seven pillars of wisdom. At four points of the Star of David are bronze portrait reliefs of Jewish philosophers and scholars. These photographs measure 6.5" x 8.5" (16.51 x 20.32 cm), 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.40 cm), and 7" x 9" (17.78 x 22.86 cm). Jewish immigration to Cleveland, as elsewhere in America, can be divided into two distinct, overlapping periods. These are the German era (1837-1900), when Jewish Germans immigrated, and the East European era (1870-1924), which saw Jewish people immigrating from Russia, Poland, and Romania. The social and cultural character of the two groups differed markedly, and through the mid-1930s they most often developed parallel and separate institutions and communities. The first Jews in Cleveland settled near the Central Market, generally east of the river, where they built their first institutions. As the Jewish community grew and businesses expanded, young or newly-arrived Jews received their business training as clerks or bookkeepers in the firms of relatives or landsmen. As this community's population increased and gained greater wealth, Jews moved eastward along Woodland and Central, eventually moving to the Heights and eastern suburbs where they had to wage court battles to secure building rights for Jewish institutions. The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, located along East Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, are landscaped gardens with statuary honoring Cleveland's ethnic groups. During the dedication of the Shakespeare Garden in 1916, it was decided that similar sites should be prepared for each of the city's ethnic communities. The first of these gardens, the Hebrew garden, was established in 1926. On May 9, 1927 the city set aside areas of Rockefeller Park for future gardens. The Italian, German, Lithuanian, Slovak, and Ukrainian gardens were established in 1930; the Polish, Hungarian, Czech, and Yugoslav gardens in 1934; and the American, Russian, Irish, Greek, and Syrian gardens in 1938. Romanian, Estonian, Afro-American, Chinese, Finnish, and Indian gardens have since been created. Planning and fundraising for each garden was undertaken within the ethnic communities, while the Cleveland Cultural Garden Federation (established in 1925) oversaw planning and coordinated various joint programs.
Creator	Cleveland Press, Cleveland News
Date of Original	1926; 1937
Collection	Cleveland Parks Rockefeller Cultural Gardens Photograph Collection
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	Cleveland Public Library, Photograph Collection
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om2014_2775174_008
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2014_2775174_008.tif
Image Height	1758
Image Width	2394
File Size	303.934 KB

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