The Jewish Community Center of Pittsburgh
Author | : Jewish Community Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.) |
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Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Jews |
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Author | : Jewish Community Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.) |
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Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Jews |
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Author | : Jewish Community Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.) |
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Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Jews |
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Author | : Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Camps |
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The JCC of Greater Pittsburgh records are housed in sixty-two archival boxes and are arranged alphabetically in eight series. Series are designated for the Emma Kaufmann Camp, Henry Kaufmann Family Recreation Park and James & Rachel Levinson Day Camp, Irene Kaufmann Settlement to the Irene Kaufmann Centers, JCC of Greater Pittsburgh, South Hills Jewish Community Center, YMWHA of Pittsburgh, Y-IKC, and Y Music Society. Individual folder titles within each series are arranged alphabetically and/or chronologically. The records contain annual reports, correspondence, financial material, historical information, minute books, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, printed material, programs, publications, scrapbooks, and other sundry items.
Author | : Jewish Community Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.) |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Jews |
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Author | : Mark Oppenheimer |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-10-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0525657193 |
A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America's renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must confront on the road to healing. Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multigenerational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshipping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill--the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in American history. Many neighborhoods would be understandably subsumed by despair and recrimination after such an event, but not this one. Mark Oppenheimer poignantly shifts the focus away from the criminal and his crime, and instead presents the historic, spirited community at the center of this heartbreak. He speaks with residents and nonresidents, Jews and gentiles, survivors and witnesses, teenagers and seniors, activists and historians. Together, these stories provide a kaleidoscopic and nuanced account of collective grief, love, support, and revival. But Oppenheimer also details the difficult dialogue and messy confrontations that Squirrel Hill had to face in the process of healing, and that are a necessary part of true growth and understanding in any community. He has reverently captured the vibrancy and caring that still characterize Squirrel Hill, and it is this phenomenal resilience that can provide inspiration to any place burdened with discrimination and hate.
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Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Community centers |
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Author | : Jewish Community Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.) |
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Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Community centers |
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Author | : Barbara Burstin PhD |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2015-05-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 143965137X |
By the mid-19th century, Jews from German lands began settling in Pittsburgh, later to be followed by Jews from the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires and Romania. They founded businesses and organizations such as Giant Eagle, Kaufmann's Department Store, Montefiore Hospital, the Pittsburgh Playhouse, the Civic Light Opera, and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Sophie Masloff became the first woman and the first Jew to serve as mayor, and civic reformer and lawyer A. Leo Weil, philanthropist Leon Falk Jr., and social justice crusader Florence Reizenstein all had schools named after them. From Allegheny City and "the Hill" to Squirrel Hill and the East End, the Jewish population preserved its distinct core community and contributed to its adopted city in multiple ways. Today, it numbers more than 40,000, and their story is one of grit, determination, risk taking, hard knocks, and no small measure of success.
Author | : Faith Lynn Magdovitz |
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Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Jewish community centers |
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Author | : Squirrel Hill Historical Society |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2017-06-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439661278 |
The Squirrel Hill Historical Society and editor Helen Wilson explore the fascinating history of one of Pittsburgh's historic neighborhoods. Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood began on the frontier of western Pennsylvania 250 years ago and developed into a vibrant urban community. Early settler John Turner, half-brother of renegade Simon Girty, survived capture by Native Americans and experienced firsthand the change from dangerous wilderness to established farming community. As Squirrel Hill developed, the landscape dotted with farms and cottages, inns and taverns, and little shops, over time Pittsburgh's elite began to build mansions in the area, especially after the Civil War; one of these stately manors even became the Pennsylvania Female College in 1869, today known as Chatham University. Wealthy landowners Henry Clay Frick and Mary Schenley bestowed Squirrel Hill its grand public parks . Hyman Little, Herman Kamin and countless others moved to the hill and made it Pittsburgh's premier Jewish community, with a tight knit cluster of synagogues, temples and a thriving business district. Today, Squirrel Hill is still one of the most beautiful and exclusive neighborhoods in Pittsburgh.