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Metadata
Title |
Jewish Community of Louisville Photograph Collection |
Collection |
Jewish Community of Louisville Photograph Collection |
Catalog Number |
022PC1 |
Date |
ca. 1910-2022 |
Location |
Kentucky / Jefferson County / Louisville |
Collection Finding Aid |
Click to view Jewish Community of Louisville Photograph Collection Finding Aid |
Description |
*Click Media button above for full item list (in-house only)* This collection consists of photographs relating to the Jewish community of Louisville, Kentucky. Most of the photographs document activities, events, and individuals associated with the Jewish Community Center (JCC) and the Jewish Community Federation of Louisville, two organizations that merged in 2009 to form the Jewish Community of Louisville, Inc. (JCL). Also included in the collection are photographs relating to the predecessors of the JCC and the Federation, Louisville synagogues, and other local Jewish organizations and entities. Folders 1-58 contain photographs relating to JCC and its predecessor, the Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA). Dating from ca. 1910-1955 are photographs of YMHA facilities, athletics, and social and educational activities. Covering the years before and after 1955, when the JCC on Dutchmans Lane opened and the YMHA closed, are photographs of fundraising and groundbreaking for the new JCC, United Service Organizations (USO) events, Heritage Theatre plays and actor headshots, summer camps, and senior activities at the YMHA and JCC. The rest of the photographs document events and activities at the JCC through the early 2020s. Folders 59-75 contain photographs relating to the Jewish Community Federation of Louisville and miscellaneous Jewish community events from the 1960s through the early 2000s. Included are photographs of Federation leaders, meetings, awards, United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and United Jewish Campaign (UJC) events, group trips to Washington, D.C., the New Americans programs, and plaques and art works. Folders 76-79 hold photographs documenting Community Relations Council (CRC) events from the 1970s-1990s, such as Model Seders and a Catholic Teachers Institute on Judaism. Folders 80-91 hold photographs documenting the artists and art works of the art show "Creativity under Duress: From Gulag to Glasnost," held in Louisville in 1989. The show was organized by Laurel Garron, chair of the CRC committees on Soviet Jewry and Classics in Context. It featured the work of Russian Jewish artists calling themselves the Aleph Group, who had held an avant-garde art show in Leningrad in 1975 and reunited at the Louisville exhibit. Folders 92-107 contain photographs relating to Louisville synagogues and other local Jewish entities from the 1930s through the early 2000s. Included are photographs of individuals and events of Adath Jeshurun, Anshai Sfard, Keneseth Israel, The Temple - Congregational Adath Israel Brith Sholom, Temple Shalom, Louisville Hebrew School, Eliahu Academy, B'nai B'rith Louisville Lodge No. 14, Boy Scout Troop 30, National Council of Jewish Women, Jewish Hospital, Jewish Family and Vocational Service, Four Courts, and Shalom Tower. Folders 108-141 and digital materials contain group and individual photographs of members of Louisville's Jewish community. Also included are photographs of Jewish individuals from other parts of the United States and from Israel, and of non-Jewish individuals and politicians from Louisville and Kentucky. Many photographs were used for the newspapers Kentucky Jewish Post and Opinion and Community. See the attached spreadsheet for the list of names of individuals pictured. Photographers include Gus Frank, Sam Hinerfeld, the Royal Photo Company, Charley Pence, Gene Gilpin, Patrick Pfister, Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville Times, and Robert Burge. Digitized items include: Folder 2: YMHA summer camp attendees, ca. 1920s Folder 2: Volleyball players in the YMHA gymnasium, ca. 1910s Folder 3: YMHA basketball team, 1921-1922 Folder 3: YMHA basketball team, 1932 Folder 3: YMHA basketball team, 1935 Folder 9: YMHA basketball team, 1940s Folder 10: Bowling team, 1950s Folder 10: Kindergarten children celebrating Tu B'Shevat Folder 12: Groundbreaking ceremony for the Jewish Community Center, 1954 Folder 16: Serving refreshments from the Succah at the USO (United Services Organization) Club operated by the JWB (Jewish Welfare Board) in the YMHA, 1944. Left to right: Murray Sloan, Quincy, Mass.; Elsie Goldberg; Mrs. Rena Levy, entertainment chair of the Louisville, Army, and Navy Committee of the JWB; Mr. Bert Horowitz, Direction of the USO-JWB. Folder 16: Esther Kastan and Mary Gordon serving breakfast to Ft. Knox soldiers at the JCC, 1950s. Folder 22: Lynn Strauss, Julia Goff, and Leann Rouben during Chanukah, 1973. Folder 27: YMHA cornerstone at the JCC, ca. 1955. Front: Susie [?], Margo Kling, [?]; Standing: Abe Berman, [?], Joe Kaplan, Sam Steinfeld, Drew Staffenberg, Morris Kling, David Lebson, Boris Pressma, Charles Weisberg, David Kling, Joe Fineman, Al Cheistwer, Frankye Gordon. Folder 27: JCC pool area, 1950s. Folder 36: JCC drama, 1955 Folder 39: "We Saw Sushan: A Purim Phantasy," written for the Golden Age Club of the YMHA, 1947. Folder 43: Harold Berg and Joseph Kaplan, president of the JCC, standing in front of Berg's mosaic depicting the horrors of the Holocaust and the elation of the birth of Israel, 1969. Joe Rigsby, an art teacher at the JCC, assisted Berg. Folder 43: Harold Berg's mosaic "Maimonides' Prayer" at Louisville's Jewish Hospital, ca. 1960s. Folder 59: Charter group of the founding of Louisville Conference of Jewish Organizations on its 30th anniversary, 1964. Folder 61: Valini Borenstine, Barbara Koby, Julie Koff, Julie Linker, Rolla Gladstein representing Louisville as Kentucky Belles at the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Conference, ca. 1970s. Folder 71: New Americans program, 1992 Folder 74: Mikhail Gorbachev and Fred Joseph at a Louisville Jewish community thank you presentation for Gorbachev, 1995. Gorbachev was in Louisville to receive a Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order from the University of Louisville. Folder 75: The March on Frankfort, 1964. Arthur Kling pictured in the bottom right. Folder 76: Yom HaShoah proclamation ceremony, 1985. Among those pictured are Marilyn Moosnick, Gov. John Y. Brown, and Rabbi Stanley Miles. Folder 77: Kosher booth at Heritage Weekend, 1985 Folder 78: Rabbi Joe Rooks Rapport and Sara Wagner at a Model Seder, ca. 1990s. Folder 78: Dr. Lisa Kirsch, Father Bill Manner, and Roz Shaffer at a Model Seder, 1998. Folder 80: Creativity under Duress artists at the Louisville Water Company, 1989 Folder 94: Keneseth Israel Sunday School, undated. Folder 95: Possibly the dedication of The Temple, 1980. Pictured are Rabbi Samuel Karff, Rabbi Herbert Waller, Rabbi Chester Diamon, Rabbi Leonard Devine, James Hertzman, President. Folder 96: Dedication of Temple Shalom on Taylorsville Rd., Fall 1981. Pictured are Rabbi Simcha Kling and Rabbi Stanley Miles. Folder 97: B'nai B'rith members and carnival poster, ca. 1940s-1950s. Photo by Sam Hinerfeld. Folder 99: National Council of Jewish Women members at the Jewish Home for Convalescent Children, ca. 1940s-1950s. Folder 100: Jewish Hospital hostess program, ca. 1940s. Folder 102: Children performing for residents of Four Courts Louisville Hebrew Home, ca. 1960s-1970s. Lily Rose is the teacher standing in the back. Folder 104: Children and adults of Louisville Hebrew School, ca. 1920s. Folder 104: Graduating class of Louisville Hebrew School, 1939. Front row: Norma Berlin, Miriam Saltzman, Selma Persky[?], Don M[?]. Back row: Marty Tanenbaum[?], Charles Leifer, Rabbi Joseph Saltzman. Folder 104: Hebrew class, ca. 1940s Folder 105: Children and adults of Eliahu Academy, 1954 Folder 107: Louisville Board of Rabbis and Cantors, early 2000s. Front row: Cantor David Lipp, Rabbi Laura Metzer, Cantor Paula Pepperstone, Rabbi Andy Pepperstone. Back row: Rabbi Bradley Tecktiel, Rabbi Stanley Miles, Rabbi Robert Slosberg, Rabbit Joe Rooks Rapport. |
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