Showing posts with label Parma Jewish Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parma Jewish Cemetery. Show all posts
Saturday, March 23, 2013
stoned under
In Parma Ohio, Workmen's Circle (Ashkenazic fraternal) has a cemetery, and parts of it have sections for separate Jewish organisations and congregations. The most separate, and smallest, is the Berger. At the time of the photo, this section was accessible though a ripped part of the chain link fence.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Lions of Judah
On many of the stones there are enamel photographs (a good number have been broken). The script is English, and Yiddish in Hebraic letters. The stele are all thick.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Workmen's Circle
Workmen's Circle was founded in 1900 in New York City. It was part of labor, socialism, and the social justice movements. Since its peak influence, it has dwindled, and has moved toward the political center. It's paper, Forverts (the Forward), was the largest non-English paper in the country, for a time.
In 1920 the Cleveland lodges bought land for a cemetery in Parma, Ohio. The labor Jews were, at that time, living around Kinsman, and Woodland on the east side of Cleveland. Parma is on the [south] west side. The Workmen's Circle graveyard has separate section for other Jewish groups.
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