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JCA: Jewish Apartments and Services Records
Collection
Identifier: UR002345
Abstract
The Jewish Apartments and Services Records spans the years 1966 through 1999. It reflects the growth and development of the agency that provides residential services for senior adults in seven facilities in the Detroit area. The Prentis and Teitel Apartments are located in Oak Park and the Hechtman and Meer Apartments in West Bloomfield, adjacent to the facilities of the then-extant Jewish Community Centers.The Apartments serve the Jewish community, primarily. However, they are...
Dates:
1966 - 1999
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
JCA: Jewish Community Council Records
Collection
Identifier: UR001726
Abstract
The Jewish Community Council was established in 1937 as an umbrella organization to serve as a unifying force for Jewish organizations of metropolitan Detroit.The records of the Council document the organization's operational activities, programming, and publications, and the interests of the organization as related to issues such as anti-Semitism, discrimination and the civil rights movement, church-state relations and education, Israeli and Middle Eastern affairs, Zionism, and the...
Dates:
1937 - 1984
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
JCA: Jewish Home for the Aged Records
Collection
Identifier: UR001697
Abstract
Incorporated as the Jewish Old Folks Home in 1907 to provide housing for the homeless and those who no longer could maintain their homes, the Jewish Home for the Aged was at one time a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of the Detroit Jewish community. After expansion to the northwest suburbs with two full-scale nursing homes, financial and management difficulties in the 1980s led to contraction of services. The majority of the records of the Home cover the creation and operation of the...
Dates:
1907 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1990
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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