The Chicago Jewish Community Blue Book
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 400
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chicago (Ill.)
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jack Kitaeff
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1621968960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Irving Cutler
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780252021855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVividly 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: Sentinel Publishing Company
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780260484086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Chicago Jewish Community Blue Book With an offer of from Abraham Slimmer of Waverly, Iowa, on condition that a like amount be raised in Chicago, a new organization was formed April 6, 1891, with Morris Rosenbaum as president. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Sentinel Publishing Co (Chicago)
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Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781017257236
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Publisher: Legislative Reference Bureau
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 1008
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shelly Tenenbaum
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780814322871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy supplying small entrepreneurs with necessary capital to start and expand their businesses, Jewish loan societies facilitated the rise up the economic ladder of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Jews. These collective institutions were an important feature of a cohesive ethnic economy in which Jewish factory owners hired Jewish workers, Jewish retailers bought goods from Jewish wholesalers, and Jewish shopkeepers relied on Jewish loan associations for funding. A Credit to Their Community is a sociohistorical study of Jewish credit organizations from the 1880s until the end of World War II. Upon their arrival in the United States during this critical period in American Jewish life, Eastern European Jewish immigrants established hundreds of loan societies in communities as diverse as Nashville, Tennessee; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Rock Island, Illinois; and Portland, Oregon. While there is ample discussion and documentation of the over-representation of Jewish immigrants in business, until now the question of how these immigrant entrepreneurs raised the necessary funds to start their enterprises has not been addressed. Based on primary historical documents, this book analyzes the emergence, growth, and subsequent decline of three types of Jewish loan associations in America: Hebrew free loan societies; remedial loan associations—philanthropic loan societies that charged relatively low interest fees; and credit cooperatives. The author addresses a number of issues related to the functioning of the Jewish credit organizations, including the activities of women's loan associations, debates about whether or not to open doors to non-Jewish borrowers, discussions about the merits and faults of implementing interest charges, the effects of the Great Depression on loan organizations, and the relations between free loan Societies and other Jewish organizations. While the primary focus is on Jews, the text also offers comparisons between Jewish loan societies and those of other enterprising groups such as the Japanese and Chinese. This study raises an important theoretical question in the field of ethnicity; namely, to what extent are ethnic institutions influenced by culture—cultural traits brought from countries of origin—and to what extent do they emerge as responses to the new context to which immigrants have arrived? In answering this question, Dr. Tenenbaum highlights the importance of both cultural and contextual factors for the emergence of Jewish loan associations.
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 590
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Louis Wirth
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781412836999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Ghetto traces back to the medieval era the Jewish immigrant colonies that have virtually disappeared from our modern cities--to be replaced by other ghettoes. Analytical as well as historical, Wirth's book lays bare the rich inner life hidden behind the drab exterior of the ghetto. The book describes the significant physical, social, and psychic influences of ghetto life upon the Jews. Wirth demonstrates that the economic life of the modern Jew still reflects the impress of the social isolation of ghetto life; at first self-imposed, later formalized, and finally imposed by others through a variety of extralegal mechanisms.