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Wednesday, August 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM (EST)

We’re on the Map! Jews and Experimental Buffalo, 1950s-1970s

Chana Revell Kotzin, Ph.D.

Congregation Mishkan Or,  26000 Shaker Boulevard, Beachwood, and via Zoom

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We’re on the Map! Jews and Experimental Buffalo, 1950s-1970s

Chana Revell Kotzin, Ph.D.

Presenter: 

Chana Revell Kotzin, Ph.D., is a public historian, independent scholar and adjunct professor. Her research interests include British and American history, ethnic and religious history, museology, archives and curation. In addition to work as the lead researcher and curator for a new Jewish community museum that launched in 2023, she previously devised exhibitions around diverse themes ranging from Jewish placemaking to musical artistry. She led the creation of a decade long archives program in partnership with the University Archives at the University at Buffalo creating a unique archive of Jewish community materials, and more recently was the lead researcher and curator of an all-digital online platform. A researcher and author of successful National Register of Historic Places applications, she has also published scholarly articles in multiple venues including museum catalogues, Shofar, The Journal of Holocaust Education and Jewish History and Culture and most recently, contributions to a book of collected essays published by Brill. Chana is the author of Jewish Community of Greater Buffalo published by Arcadia and is completing a monograph on post WWII Jewish life in Buffalo, NY. She has served as adjunct faculty at William Jewell College, Daemen University, and Medaille College. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Southampton, UK.

Registration: This event is free for members and non-members of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland.  Registration is requested for all and required for those wishing to attend via Zoom, by Tuesday, November 3rd.  The Zoom link will be distributed multiple times within the week prior to the meeting date. Please direct any questions to Jane Rothstein at president@jgscleveland.org.

Credits for images:

Mural created by Lewis Rubenstein for the Jewish Community Center of Buffalo, Image by Don Dannecker for the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies. Used with permission.

Portrait, Chana Revell Kotzin, PhD. Image by Brenda Turteltaub Feldstein. Used with permission.


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Open house highlights Jewish family histories, honors local leaders

Congregation Mishkan Or in Beachwood hosted a honey-themed Family History and Genealogy Open House on Aug. 11, allowing more than 40 attendees to explore their family history and genealogy with talks, interactive tables, activities and tours.

The event was put on by the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland and Congregation Mishkan Or.

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