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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