This is an authorized facsimile, made from the microfilm master copy of the original dissertation or master thesis published by UMI. The bibliographic information for this thesis is contained in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database, the only central source for accessing almost every doctoral dissertation accepted in North America since 1861. Dissertation Services From: Proauest COMPANY 300 North Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor. Michigan 48106-1346 USA 800.521.0600 734.761.4700 web www.il.proquest.com Printed in 2004 by digital xerographic process on acid-free paper INFORMATION TO USERS 'This was produced from a copy of a document sent to us for microfhing. While the most advanced technological means to photograph and reproduce this document have been used, the quality is heavily depndent upon the quality of the malerial submitted. The following explanation of techniques is provided to help you understand markine or notations which may appear on lhis reproduction. I. 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If necessary, sectioning is continued again-beginning below the fist row and continuing on until complete. 4. For any illustrations that cannot be reproduced satisfactorily by xerography, photographic prints can be purchased at additional cost and tipped into your xerographic copy. Requests can be made to our Dissertations Customer Services Department. 5. Som pages in any document may have indistinct print. in all cases we have filmed the best available copy. nI- 310N LEE8 ROAD. ANN AABOR.MI 48106 I0 BEDFORD ROW. LONWNWClA 4El. ENGLAND KAPLANI HELGA EUGENIE 1 CENTURY OF ADJUSTMENT: A HlSTORY OF THE -AKRON JEYlSH COMMUNITY. 1065-1915. - KENT STATE UNlYERSlTV~ PH-0.9 1978 . .. .. . . @ 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 ~ - , Chairman, Doctoral Dissertation Committee , tlembers, Doctoral Dissertation Committee & R M , l.iL&L / .x,f,., 7 .). <, .' ,N <&! itl; iJ( ,A~Afl,-&, Accepted by , Chairman, Department of History , Dean, Graduate College ii 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
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