The Chicago pinkas
Author: Simon Rawidowicz
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : College of Jewish Studies
Published: 1952
Total Pages: 197
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Author: Simon Rawidowicz
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : College of Jewish Studies
Published: 1952
Total Pages: 197
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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: Perry Duis
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780252067815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis colorful and perceptive study presents persuasive evidence that the saloon, far from being a magnet for vice and crime, played an important role in working-class community life. Focusing on public drinking in "wide open" Chicago and tightly controlled Boston, Duis offers a provocative discussion of the saloon as a social institution and a locus of the struggle between middle-class notions of privacy and working-class uses of public space.
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Zev Eleff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-06-01
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0190490284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinalist for the American Jewish Studies cateogry of the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards Early in the 1800s, American Jews consciously excluded rabbinic forces from playing a role in their community's development. By the final decades of the century, ordained rabbis were in full control of America's leading synagogues and large sectors of American Jewish life. How did this shift occur? Who Rules the Synagogue? explores how American Jewry in the nineteenth century was transformed from a lay dominated community to one whose leading religious authorities were rabbis. Zev Eleff traces the history of this revolution, culminating in the Pittsburgh rabbinical conference of 1885 and the commotion caused by it. Previous scholarship has chartered the religious history of American Judaism during this era, but Eleff reinterprets this history through the lens of religious authority. In so doing, he offers a fresh view of the story of American Judaism with the aid of never-before-mined sources and a comprehensive review of periodicals and newspapers. Eleff weaves together the significant episodes and debates that shaped American Judaism during this formative period, and places this story into the larger context of American religious history and modern Jewish history.
Author: Shannon Jackson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780472087914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApplies the interdisciplinary insights of performance studies to the life of Chicago's Hull-House settlement
Author: James Atlas
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2012-08-08
Total Pages: 909
ISBN-13: 0307828336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s turbulent personal and professional life, as it unfolded against the background of twentieth-century events—the Depression, World War II, the upheavals of the sixties—and amid all the complexities of the Jewish-immigrant experience in America, which generated a vibrant new literature. Drawing upon a vast body of original research, including Bellow’s extensive correspondence with Ralph Ellison, Delmore Schwartz, John Berryman, Robert Penn Warren, John Cheever, and many other luminaries of the twentieth-century literary community, Atlas weaves a rich and revealing portrait of one of the most talented and enigmatic figures in American intellectual history. Detailing Bellow’s volatile marriages and numerous tempestuous relation-ships with women, publishers, and friends, Bellow: A Biography is a magnificent chronicle of one of the premier writers in the English language, whose prize-winning works include Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March, and, most recently, Ravelstein.
Author: Walter Roth
Publisher: ChicagoReviewPress + ORM
Published: 2005-08-30
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0897338200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was a bitter cold morning in March, 1908. A nineteen-year-old Jewish immigrant traversed the confusing and unfamiliar streets of Chicago–a one-and-a-half-hour-long journey–from his ghetto home on Washburne Avenue to the luxurious Lincoln Place residence of Police Chief George Shippy. He arrived at 9 a.m. Within minutes after knocking on the front door, Lazarus Averbuch lay dead on the hallway floor, shot no less than six times by the chief himself. Why Averbuch went to the police chief's house or exactly what happened after that is still not known. This is the most comprehensive account ever written about this episode that stunned Chicago and won the attention of the entire country. It does not "solve" the mystery as much as it places it in the context of a nation that was unsure how to absorb all of the immigrants flowing across its borders. It attempts to reconstruct the many different perspectives and concerns that comprised the drama surrounding the investigation of Averbuch's killing.
Author: David N. Myers
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 1584657367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the fascinating Jewish thinker Simon Rawidowicz and his provocative views on Arab refugees and the fate of Israel