Table of Contents of
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
A Jewish History of the 20th Century
(JewishHistoryUSA Publishers, 2001)

Numbers in parentheses are starting page numbers.

BEGINNINGS to 1909 - (p.2) 18th and 19th centuries; (3) Berkley beginnings; (7) Norfolk Jewish population, synagogues, rabbis, (8) organizations; separate seating; Beth El school; (9) Ohef Sholom moves; (11) B'nai Israel moves; (13) cemeteries; Rabbi Benmosche; (14) Rabbi Cohen; (15) B'nai B'rith; Standard Club, Ghent Club, etc.; (17) B'rith Abraham; Hebrew Ladies Charity Society, etc.; (18) Kishineff Pogroms; immigration opposition; B'nai Israel lecture; (19) Wright Brothers; Rabbis Goldberg, Price, Heiman; Ohef Sholom minutes; Rabbi Seidel, Zionism; (20) 250th anniversary; (21) Young Ladies Hebrew Assoc.; Altamont Social Club; Christian attitudes; (23) Jefferson Society; (25) Sons of Benjamin; Rabbis Mendoza, Gordon; (26) Edward Browne and holiday school exams; (27) Major Hart; Jamestown Exposition; immigration movement; (28) Galaxy Magazine; Ohef Sholom organs, choir, controversy; (29) Va. Soc. and Pleasure Club; Workmen's Circle; Bible in the schools; (30) Ohef Sholom minutes; Forest Lawn; Ahavath Israel; Selichos; (31) Beth El Hebrew School, etc.; (32) Musical Association; (33) Beth El remodeling; (34) Charity Home; Blue Laws; (36) hospital.

1910 to 1924 - (p.38) Hebrew Grammar School; (39) Ohef Sholom Confirmation; (40) Jamestown Race Track; Councilmen and Fenchurch controversy; (41) Our Club; Delegate B.A. Banks; (43) County Jews; Beth El Cantor Weisfeld; Zionism, Jewish National Fund, Virginia Zionist Assoc., Hadassah, etc.; (46) Russian Jews and Beth El; (47) Ohef Sholom minutes; Young Men's Hebrew Assoc.; (48) YWHA; (49) Treble Cleff Choral Club; World War I, Jewish Relief, Ahavath Israel, etc.; (51) Church St. Bank; (52) Ohef Sholom burns, rebuilds; (54) Kahal Chasidim, Holt St. Shul, Fenchurch Synagogue; Friendly Inn and Police Court; (57) B'rith Sholom; Rabbi Krueger; 1919 population; Mendoza against spiritualism, Ford, KKK; (59) reviving B'nai B'rith; (60) charitable organizations and Kashruth supervision; Jewish post-war relief; (61) Mount Sinai Hospital; (63) Delegate Dr. Israel Brown; (64) Rabbi Steinbach and new Beth El Temple; B'rith Israel; Hebrew Sheltering Aid Society, Talmud Torah, Hebrew Free Loan Assoc., Community Centre.

1925 to 1929 - (p.65) Sons of Zion, Unity Club; Council of Jewish Women; population; I.O.B.S. convention; Y.W.H.A.; (66) Beth El Purim pageant, banquet, basketball; (66A) orator Rabbi Steinbach; (68) United Palestine Appeal; (73) European Jewish Relief; (74) Ohef Sholom school, orthodox teachers; (75) teaching citizenship; (77) orator Rabbi Mendoza; (79) Cumberland St. Sabbath School; (80) B.A. Banks and KKK; (82) B'nai Jacob Center, Beth Abraham, 20th St. Shul; (83) Mount Sinai Hospital nurses' training, nursery; (84) Dr. Israel Brown lauded; (85) Polan Banks; Rabbi Gordon in Palestine; (86) Norfolk Community Fund; (88) Benjamin Epstein's airport; (89) Jewish life in 1929.

1930 to 1934 - (p.92) interfaith support; (94) organizations and the Jewish Messenger; (97) fraternities; (98) Holt St. Settlement House; Mount Sinai/Memorial Hospital; (99) advertisements; (101) "Young Edison," letter to Einstein, Jews in the news; (102) Rabbi Reich.

1935 to 1941 - (p.105) Zionist activities; (115) Council of Jewish Women and S.S. Quanza; (119) Jewish War Veterans; (120) National Conference of Christians and Jews; (123) death of art in Germany; (124) Brith Sholom Center; (125) Beth El Center; American Jewish Committee overview of Norfolk Jewry; (128) economic concerns; (129) B'nai B'rith; (132) becoming united; United Jewish Appeal; (133) United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1939; (137) Council of Jewish Federations; (138) Richmond Jewish Community Council; (139) subscriber lists; (140) health agencies; (142) local refugee agency; 1939 budget; Hadassah's Youth Aliyah, emergency funding; reactions to the budget; (147) 1940 UJF campaign; (148) 1941-1942 UJF campaign.

1941 to 1945 - (p.149) Naval Base Chapel; (150) housing needs, Admirals Ben Morreell and Taussig; (154) City government and anti-Semitism questions; (157) School Board chairman Wagenheim; (159) Jewish Welfare Board's USO; Ocean View Park, Virginia Beach synagogue; (160A) Lieut. Aks and ship's loss in Pacific; (162) U.S. Bonds, "Sell-A-Million" Codd, and Sutton; (167) Ohef Sholom; (168) Congressman Winder Harris and a Jewish homeland; (171) local Zionist activity.

1945 to present - 1945-1947: (pp.174-77) selected Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings of the Norfolk Jewish Community Council; 1947: (177) Jewish Youth Council; Folks Division Raises $20,000; 1948: (178) Kaufman addresses annual meeting; (179) religious data received; 1949: Beth El cornerstone; 1950: Eddie Cantor coming; Resettlement Bureau; (180) Jewish Day Camp; (181) Jewish Community Center proposed; 1951: CAB Movies of Day Camp; 1952: J.C.C. underway; (182) Wards Corner synagogue plans; 1953: Farband sponsors theatrical caravan at Blair Jr. H.S.; B'nai B'rith features Nuremburg Trial attorney; United Orthodox Synagogue honors Rabbi Burak; Rabbis Kahn, Goldman, Shechter, Hachen; 1954: $250,000 UJF goal; ritualarium under construction; (183) Rabbi Turetsky, chaplain; 1955: tercentenary exhibit; 1956: Klein heads UJF; (184) B'nai B'rith-Gamsey Lodge merger; Abba Eban speaks; Kempsville Recreation plans; (186) JCC-JWV address on Russian mission by Newport News rabbi; 1957: Armed Services and UJF; city takes over Hebrew Cemetery ; 1958: UJF on TV; (187) new Hebrew Academy director; 1959: Harry Golden addresses Women's Div. UJF; Temple Emanuel 10th anniversary; 1961: (188) ORT affiliated with Community Council; Rabbi Silberman to deliver Mendoza Lecture; Hebrew Academy purchases site; Rabbi Schecter to Baltimore; 1962: Hillel at Norfolk William and Mary; (189) JCC 10th anniv. Purim carnival; 1963: UJF campaign leaders; B'nai Israel Talmud study group; 1964: famed tenor at B'nai Israel; Norfolk Academy campus for JCC; 1965: (190) $320,000 UJF mark; enlarged Ohef Sholom; 1966: (191) Rekonty, teacher; (192) Temple Israel's Axelrod and Cantor Smith; 1967: Strelitz elected to UJA executive; (193) Israel crisis response; United Jewish Federation becomes Community Council's new name; 1968: Poor People's March; 1969: (194) $808,000 pledged at Humphrey dinner; (195) Chaplain Rabbi Sobel; 1970: JCC nears completion; Rabbi Forman; (196) Strelitzes awarded by Natl. Conf. of Christians and Jews; Gates awarded; 1971: (197) Soviet Jewry Freedom Week; 1972: Olympic Memorial Service; 1973: (198) Israel solidarity rally; 1974: demographic study; 1975: (199) Simon receives top Israeli medal; Hebrew Academy dedication; Lefcoe awarded; rally for Israel; 1976: (200) Strelitz is national UJA chairman; UJF of Tidewater and Portsmouth Jewish Council plan consolidation; Nimitz Torah ceremony; 1978: (201) UJA mission to Israel; Panorama, Israel 30th anniv. celebration; UJA Mission Renewal.