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Guide to the Photographs of the Hebrew Institute of Pittsburgh 1915-1984
Metadata Details
- Title
- Hebrew Institute of Pittsburgh photographs 1915-1984
- Subject
- Abrams, Israel, Abrams, Solomon, Ashinsky, Aaron Mordecai , c.1867-1954, Rosenbloom, Sol, Hebrew Institute of Pittsburgh (Pa.), Sol Rosenbloom Teacher Training School (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Solomon Schechter Day School (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Jews--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Jewish education--Pennsylania--Pittsburgh
- Description
- The photograph collection of the Hebrew Institute includes images from 1915 to 1984. The bulk of the photographs show students in a classroom setting or graduation classes posed on the grounds of the Hebrew Institute with separate descriptions and identifying labels and dates. A notable photograph dated 1921 depicts the Hebrew Institutes first school bus., Photographs of the Hebrew Institute, 1915-1984, MSP 0512, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania., Meyer Grinberg gift Oct 2000 2000.0201 photograph, Muriel Guttman gift Sept. 1998 1998.0214 photographs, Elaine Reimer Joseph gift June 2000 2000.0124 photograph, Sheri Sable gift June 2004 2004.0161 photograph, The Hebrew Institute was founded in response to the lack of organization and supervision of Jewish education in the Pittsburgh area. The purpose of the Hebrew Institute was to make Jewish education a factor in young lives by teaching the Hebrew language and literature and by fostering knowledge of Jewish history and ethics. It was the vision of Rabbi A.M. Ashinsky to establish a modern Talmud Torah. In 1916, the Hebrew Institute opened on Wylie Avenue and Green Street in the Hill District, where the Pittsburgh Jewish immigrant population was centered at the time. In the few years after opening, the Hebrew Institute responded to the gradual demographic shift of the Pittsburgh Jewish population to the East End, by opening classes in that area of the city. By 1954, the Hebrew Institute was conducting the largest kindergarten and summer camp if its kind in the country. The entire program for the Hebrew Institute was used as a model for similar educational institutions. In 1991, the Hebrew Institute, Community Day School, and the School of Advanced Jewish Studies merged to form the Jewish Educational Institute of Greater Pittsburgh., Gift of Meyer Grinberg., Gift of Muriel Guttan, Gift of Elaine Reimer Joseph., Gift of Sheri Sable. ., Processed MSS 0512 2/17/2009 T.E. Rea, Inventory available, One oversized photograph of the Hebrew Institute Class of 1920 has been separated and described as MSR#512. The names of many of the students are indicated.
- Contributor
- Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1915-1984
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, .25 linear ft.
- Identifier
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-MSP512, http://images.library.pitt.edu/h/hebrewinstitute, oclc:326879614, pitt:US-QQS-msp512
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-MSP512
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylania, Pittsburgh, Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Squirrel Hill (Pittsburgh, Pa.), East End (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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