Three Acts in Over-the-Rhine: Jewish Heritage

1225 Elm Street,Cincinnati OH 45202

14 December, 2022

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The Over-the-Rhine Museum is delighted to announce the next installment in our story-sharing series, “Three Acts in Over-the-Rhine” on Wednesday, December 14th at Memorial Hall (1225 Elm Street) at 6:00pm. Event check-in will start at 6:00 pm and the program will begin at 6:30 pm. This Three Acts event will be held in Memorial Hall’s studio room which has its own entrance along the north side of the building off of Elm Street. Paid parking is available just across the street below Washington Park. Bus and streetcar stops are also conveniently located directly across from Memorial Hall, in addition to a Red Bike station at Elm and 14th streets. A cash bar will be available throughout the event. This program will also be available to watch live via facebook.com/OTRmuseum. Please join us in celebrating stories of Over-the-Rhine! Carrie Rhodus Carrie Rhodus is the Operations Manager of Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati. A Cincinnati native, Carrie holds a Master's in Historic Preservation from Ball State University. She has previously worked as a teacher, draftsperson, realtor, and historic preservation specialist for private and public entities across the city. Carrie's talk will focus on the lives of the Kabakoff family, as told through the lens of cemeterian research methods. This talk will touch on Russian Jewish Immigration to Cincinnati, Cincinnati Jewish social services, congregational life, and Jewish death rituals. J. Miles Wolf J. Miles Wolf is a photographic artist living and working in Cincinnati. He started his photographic studies at Tulane University, and after several years of exhibiting his work at art shows he opened local galleries and photo labs. Miles’ work has been visible around the Cincinnati area for over 40 years. Miles’ photographs are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the Cincinnati Art Museum. Locally his photographs are in hundreds of corporate and private collections. Over the past six months, Miles has had 3 major exhibits of his work: Art Deco Architecture of Cincinnati at the Annex Galley; Hometown Heroes, a downtown public exhibit with 3CDC; and Jewish Cincinnati: A Photographic Record by J. Miles Wolf at the Skirball Museum, open through the end of January. For his presentation, Miles will share images and information about some of the early Jewish congregations previously located in Cincinnati’s West End neighborhood, and show how he incorporated those into new, historic collages. Miles will also delve into a few stories about his great-great grandparents who lived in the West End in the 1880’s when it was a vibrant Jewish neighborhood. Anne Delano Steinert Anne Delano Steinert is the founding board chair of the Over-the-Rhine Museum and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Cincinnati. She also directs the Center for the City at UC which connects the Department of History with the School of Planning where she teaches courses in historic preservation and oversees the bachelors program in Urban Studies. Anne's talk will use one German Jewish Cincinnatian, Joel H. Steinberg, to explore the assimilation of German Jews into Cincinnati's secular and social worlds. Born in Kuhrhessen, Prussia in 1830 and immigrating first to Indiana, Joel Steinberg arrived in Cincinnati in the late 1860s. Mr. Steinberg, who worked as a grocer, served in leadership roles in his synagogue, Ahaveth Achim, the Cincinnati Turners, several singing societies, and local political organizations. This talk will dig into the work, social, political, and personal life of Joel Steinberg as a model of the German Jewish immigrant experience.