Julius Weinberg, professor of American history at Cleveland State University and active in Jewish educational activities here as well as in the Jewish Community Federation’s community relations activities, died on February 8 at the age of 61.
A graduate of Case Western Reserve University, Weinberg received rabbinic ordination from the Miner Yeshiva in New York. He was a religious school administrator before becoming director of the Internal Relations and Culture Commission of the Jewish Community Council of Detroit where he served from 1947 to 1953.
From 1953 to 1962 he served as rabbi and educational director of the Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Mich. While there, he earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in American history at the University of Michigan. He taught at Wayne State University, in Detroit and the State University of New York in New Paltz before coming to Cleveland State University in 1965.
Weinberg was a founder, Board member and officer of Jewish educational institutions, including the Cleveland Hebrew Schools, Bureau of Jewish Education, Agnon School, Akiva Hebrew High School, and the College of Jewish Studies. He was a member of the Internal Affairs Committee of the Cleveland Welfare Federation and of American Professors for Peace in the Middle East.
A prolific writer, his works dealt with American history, Soviet Jewish history and Jewish music. At the time of his death, Weinberg was at work on a series of essays dealing with American Jewry from 1945 to the present. An article on “The Jewish Cantor in America” is scheduled for publication soon.
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