Author : Irving Cutler
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252021855
Vividly told and richly illustrated with more than 160 photos, this fascinating history of the cultural, religious, fraternal, economic, and everyday life of Chicago's Jews brings to life the people, events, neighborhoods, and institutions that helped shape today's Jewish communities. 15 maps. Graphs & tables.
Author : Hyman Louis Meites
Publisher :
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Irving Cutler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2000-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 143961010X
Relive and discover the remarkable evolution and contribution of Jewish people of Chicago, from the 1840s to present day. For many years Chicago had the third largest Jewish population of any city in the world. Through the medium of historic photographs, this book captures the remarkable evolution of the Jewish people of Chicago, from their immigrant beginnings in the 1840s to their present-day communities. It is a story of the cultural, religious, economic, and everyday life of Chicago's Jews. These pages bring to life the people, events, neighborhoods, and institutions that helped shape and transform today's Jewish community. The photos and maps, culled from the author's and other collections, paint a vivid and informative picture of Chicago Jewry. In addition to recalling the early immigrant German and later Eastern European Jews, this book delves into Jewish neighborhoods including the West Side, South Side, North Side, suburban communities, and Maxwell Street, a neighborhood which produced such prominent Jews as musician Benny Goodman, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Admiral Hyman Rickover, community organizer Saul Alinsky, and CBS founder William Paley. Chicago Jews have also made contributions to the city and the nation in the arts, commerce and industry, government service, entertainment, and labor, including seven Nobel prize winners. The images show Jews as peddlers and sweatshop workers as well as successful business entrepreneurs and professionals.
Author : Irving Cutler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738560151
For nearly half a century, the greater Lawndale area was the vibrant, spirited center of Jewish life in Chicago. It contained almost 40 percent of the city's entire Jewish population with over 70 synagogues and numerous active Jewish organizations and institutions. This book will bring back memories for those who lived there and retell the story of Jewish life on the West Side for those who did not.
Author : Isaac Levitats
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1955*
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Rabbi Philip Lefkowitz
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1642984035
In his book History of a Chicago Synagogue: Agudas Achim North Shore Congregation, Rabbi Philip Lefkowitz has provided a treasure trove of information, rare photographs, and historic documents that together offer a rich history of the synagogue in which he has served as the rabbinic leader, and in which so many others devoted their heart and soul to sustain and preserve. There is much in this book that will captivate the interest of anyone who wishes to learn more about the rich heritage of the Chicago Jewish community. This volume also serves as a loving tribute to Rabbi Lefkowitz's son, the late Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Lefkowitz, who brought pride to his family during his brief life span through his care and devotion to others. Rabbi Yona Reiss, Av Bet Din, Chief Judge Bet Din, Ecclesiastical Court of the Chicago Rabbinical Council
Author : Sentinel Publishing Co (Chicago)
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781360684819
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Judah M. Cohen
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1611682975
An enlightening look at a unique and remarkable Jewish community
Author : Joe Kraus
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501747339
The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin "Zuckie the Bookie" Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate's "Jewish wing." These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone's criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago's political corruption. Hard-to-believe anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule. With an eye for the dramatic, The Kosher Capones takes us deep inside a hidden society and offers glimpses of the men who ran the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than sixty years.
Author : Anthony J. Saldarini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1994-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226734218
The most Jewish of gospels in its contents and yet the most anti-Jewish in its polemics, the Gospel of Matthew has been said to mark the emergence of Christianity from Judaism. Anthony J. Saldarini overturns this interpretation by showing us how Matthew, far from proclaiming the replacement of Israel by the Christian church, wrote from within Jewish tradition to a distinctly Jewish audience. Recent research reveals that among both Jews and Christians of the first century many groups believed in Jesus while remaining close to Judaism. Saldarini argues that the author of the Gospel of Matthew belonged to such a group, supporting his claim with an informed reading of Matthew's text and historical context. Matthew emerges as a Jewish teacher competing for the commitment of his people after the catastrophic loss of the Temple in 70 C.E., his polemics aimed not at all Jews but at those who oppose him. Saldarini shows that Matthew's teaching about Jesus fits into first-century Jewish thought, with its tradition of God-sent leaders and heavenly mediators. In Saldarini's account, Matthew's Christian-Jewish community is a Jewish group, albeit one that deviated from the larger Jewish community. Contributing to both New Testament and Judaic studies, this book advances our understanding of how religious groups are formed.
