Journal Archive: 1980s

1989

October

  • Samuel "Nails" Morton
  • A Grandson's Inter-Generational Memoir
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June

  • Growing Up Jewish in South Chicago
  • Twenty Questions on Local Jewish History
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March

  • Chicago's Sephardic Jews
  • Robert Adler Papers: Efforts to Rescue German Jews in the 1930s
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1988

December

  • Congregation B'nai Zion's 70th Year
  • Kristallnacht and Chicago Jewry
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September

  • Walter Roth Elected CJHS President
  • B'nai Jehoshua Congregation
  • A Look Back at Society Tours
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June

  • Autobiographies: Bernard Horwich and Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
  • Clarence Darrow and the Jews
  • Sending Jews to Wyoming
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March

  • In Memoriam: Doris Minsky
  • Dora Feldman McDonald Murder Case
  • Bureau of Jewish Employment
  • The Jewish Northwest Side in 1918
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1987

December

  • Radical Russian Jewish Immigrants
  • A "City of Chicago" in Palestine
  • Far South and Southwest Side Synagogues
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September

  • The Straw Hat Shul
  • Minister William E. Blackstone
  • The Marks Nathan Orphan Home
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June

  • Rabbi's Death Changes Law on Sunday Funerals
  • Immigrants' Health Insurance Before Social Security
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March

  • Society Marks 10th Anniversary
  • Ben Reitman: Colorful Character
  • Nathan Feldman: Hero in the Battle of Wounded Knee
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1986

December

  • The Sentinel History of Chicago Jewry
  • New Biography: Edith Rosenwald Stern
  • Additions to CJHS Oral History Collection
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September

  • Norman Schwartz Re-elected President
  • Chicago Sinai Congregation: 125 Years
  • Is the Jewish Star Really Jewish?
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June

  • Jews and the Haymarket Bomb Tragedy
  • Jewish Graceland Cemetery
  • Anshe Emet Day School
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March

  • 1884: Moses Montefiore Birthday Party
  • Hillel Foundation’s Work
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1985

October

  • Guide to Important Dates in Jewish History
  • Sammy Mizenberg Memorabilia Donated
  • “Jewish Life in America” Exhibit at MSI
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June

  • Decalogue Society’s 50-Year History
  • Members of Wendell Phillips High
  • Football Team Identified
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March

  • Local Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War
  • An Immigrant’s Journey: Russia to China to Japan to Seattle to Chicago
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1984

December

  • Panel Discussion: Holocaust Survivor, Partisan Fighter, and Liberator
  • Refugee Physician Bruno Epstein
  • The Selfhelp Home
  • Three Generations of Chicago Jewish Artists
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September

  • Ner Tamid Congregation: 50 Years
  • CJHS Jewish Genealogy Seminar
  • Lost Jewish Cemetery Found
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June

  • President Rachel Heimovic’s Farewell Message
  • Norman D. Schwartz Elected CJHS President
  • Forty Years of Changes in the Chicago Jewish Community
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March

  • Spertus Exhibit: “Three Hundred Years of Jewish Life in Denmark”
  • Directory of CJHS Oral History Tapes
  • Ann Barzel Reminisces about the West Side
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1983

December

  • Growing Up on Maxwell Street
  • Anti-Defamation League 70th Anniversary
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September

  • Jewish Boxers in Chicago
  • Hillel Foundation Founding
  • Sholem Aleichem Schools in Chicago Preserving Old Photographs
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June

  • Spertus Exhibit: Sarah Hultmark Photographs
  • Chicago Public Schools Named After Prominent Jews
  • Ida Margolis: Jewish “Mayor” of Bridgeport
  • Search for Kohn Flag Continues
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March

  • National Council of Jewish Women 90th Year
  • Rare Photo of Local Yiddish Writers
  • Congregation Solel Marks 25 Years
  • The Legacy of Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch
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January

  • Brandeis Prof Discusses Jewish Radicals
  • Earliest Jewish Burial Ground in Chicago
  • Mariampoler Aid Society Celebrates 75 Years
  • Congregation beth Tikvah’s 25th Anniversary
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1982

October

  • Chicago Women’s Aid Marks 100 Years
  • Chicago’s First Reconstructionist Congregation Marks 18 Evolving Years
  • Society Acquires Archives of Historic Congregation B’nai David Shaare Zedek
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June

  • Rachel Heimovics Elected CJHS Presidnet
  • The Russishe Shul Lives on Through Merger
  • Am Echod: The Facts Recovered
  • First Roundtable on Chicago Jewish History
  • Local Jewish Periodicals
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February

  • “Tombstones and Castles” Exhibit at Spertus
  • Michael Reese Hospital Cornerstone Opened
  • Books on Chicago Jewish History Discussed
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1981

May

  • Ghost Town: The Englewood Jewish Community
  • Metro History Fair Presentation: “The Synagogue That Would Not Die: Agudath Achim-Bikur Cholim”
  • Articles from the Michael Reese Sampler
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1980

December

  • CJHS Hosts Metro History Fair Participants
  • Jewish Mural “Fabric of Our Lives” Dedicated
  • The Great Debate: “Latkes vs. Hamentashen”
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October

  • Jewish Genealogy Book List
  • Transcript of May 14 CJHS Program:
  • “Meet the Society’s Authors”
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June

  • Adele Hast Elected CJHS President
  • Adler Planetarium Marks 50th Year
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March

  • Rabbi Morris Gutstein is Guest Speaker
  • CJHS Contributions to Archives
  • German-Jewish Program Great Success!
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