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Uneasy Years: Michigan Jewry During
Depression and War
Sponsors Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Lansing
The Michigan State University Exhibit Museum
The Jewish Studies Program, Michigan State University
Faculty leads/curators Kenneth Waltzer
Kirsten Fermaglich
Museum staff Juan Alvarez
Julie Avery
Kris Morrissey
Technical work dhalsted.com, an online educational consultancy
Contributors

Alicia Doiny Shlevin

Allied Jewish Campaign, April 1939

Anti-Defamation League from their exhibit Jewish Life In Michigan

Archives of Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Southfield, and Anti-Defamation League from Jewish Life in Michigan

Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, University Archives, Wayne State University

Benno Levi

Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Detroit

Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Southfield

Daniel Fermaglich

Dennis S. Devlin; Muskegon County Museum

Detroit Free Press, Oct. 2, 1944

Detroit Jewish Chronicle, Dec. 25, 1942

Detroit Jewish Chronicle, November 25, 1938

Gerald and Barbara Cook

Gerald Cook

Harriet Selin

Henry Garfield

Henry Garfinkiel (Henry Garfield) and Benno Levi

History Collections, Michigan State University Museum

Information: Thomas L. Jones, Detroit News web

Jeanette Abeles

Jerry Cook

Jewish Studies Program, Michigan State University

Judy Cantor

Julie (Klein) and Mark Teicher

Kenneth Waltzer

Kenneth Waltzer. Day of the Circus, 1932.

Laurie Bass

Lee W. Goldsmith

Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives

Life magazine, March 6, 1939. Courtesy Lois and Daniel Fermaglich.

Life magazine, March 6, 1939. Courtesy Lois and Daniel Fermaglich

Life, August 17, 1942. Courtesy Lois and Daniel Fermaglich.

Life, March 6, 1939. Courtesy Daniel and Lois Fermaglich

Life, March 6, 1939. Courtesy Lois and Daniel Fermaglich

Life, March 6, 1939. Courtesy Lois and Daniel Fermaglich.

Life, March 6, 1939. Courtesy Lois Fermaglich

Lois and Daniel Fermaglich

Michael Seadle

Michigan State University, Documents Library

Michigan Technological University Archives & Copper Country Historical Collection

Naomi Zacks

Robert Weller and Lois and Daniel Fermaglich

Rose Levin, from A Time To Remember: A History of the Jewish Community in South Haven, by Bea Kraus

S. Joseph Fauman

Sandy and Ken Waltzer

Steve Weiland

Sylvia and Morris Serwin

Temple Jacob, Hancock

The Jewish Historical Society of Michigan, from Michigan Jews Remembers World War II

The Jewish News, Commemorative Issue

The Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Archives, Temple Beth El, Detroit

Time Magazine

Time; Courtesy Lois and Daniel Fermaglich

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University