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Collinwood: pursuing the American Dream along the Erie shore; March 4, 1908, Ash Wednesday; Days of sorrow and despair; A time of reckoning; Aftermath; Publisher's summary A devastating loss of life and a community's response.March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside of Cleveland.
Feb 25, 2020 · March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside of Cleveland. Children at Lakeview Elementary School were at work on their lessons when fifth-grader Emma Neibert noticed wisps of smoke, a discovery that led to a panicked stampede inside the school--the chaos of nine teachers trying to control and then save pupils in overcrowded classrooms.
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The Collinwood Fire website explores the cultural history of the area from numerous perspectives. (Click image to enlarge.) Now, an ambitious website published by Professor Michael Newbury, Arts Technology Specialist Daniel Houghton, and a team of Middlebury students sheds new light on the Collinwood fire, offering a trove of historic photos, news clippings, documents, and film footage, as ...
Nevertheless, antisemitism remained pervasive and state-based beginning at least as early as the mid-1600s, when in 1654, the Governor of New Amsterdam referred to the Jewish people as a "repugnant" and a "deceitful race," and sought to have them expelled from New Amsterdam.
The earlier waves of immigration and immigration restriction were followed by the Holocaust that destroyed most of the European Jewish community by 1945; these also made the United States the home for the largest Jewish diaspora population in the world. In 1900 there were 1.5 million American Jews; in 2005 there were 5.3 million.
Mar 26, 2024 · March 26, 2024 6 min read. The golden age for American Jews is in decline. At least, for now. That was the provocative proposition put forth in journalist Franklin Foer’s cover story for the April issue of The Atlantic. It was also the topic of an online discussion with the magazine’s staff writer Thursday night sponsored by Harvard Hillel.
Oct 28, 2018 · On April 13, 2014, on the eve of Passover, a man opened fire at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and at a Jewish retirement community, Village Shalom, both in Overland Park, Kansas.
