Journal Archive: 1990s

1999

Fall

  • Photographer Elizabeth Stein
  • The Paris Garter
  • Philip M. Klutznick
  • Rosa Raisa: Notes and Pictures
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Summer

  • Historic Jewish Summer Camps
  • Ben Hecht Story "Mishkin's Minyon"
  • Hints for Oral History Interviewers
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Spring

  • Opera Diva Rosa Raisa
  • Alderman Grossman's Scrapbooks
  • Ben Hecht Story "Romance"
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Winter

  • Bialik's Visit to Chicago
  • The Covenant Club
  • Max Robert Schrayer and Roosevelt University
  • Our New Editor/Designer
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1998Fall
  • American Jewish Artists Club
  • Zionist Nachum Sokolow Visits
  • Oral History Excerpt: Max Robert Shrayer
  • Plonsk Mutual Aid Society
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Spring
STATE OF ISRAEL 50th YEAR
  • Stadium Celebration
  • A Chicagoan in the Fighting
  • Making Aliyah
  • Golda Slept Here
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Winter

  • Park Forest History
  • An Accidental Anarchist
  • Oral History Excerpt: Ray Epstein
  • Yehuda ben Arie Lieb Blieden
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1997
Summer
  • Editor Rosa Sonnenschein
  • Track Star Sam Becker
  • Oral History Excerpt: Harriet Gerber Lewis
  • POW Harold Weinberg
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Spring
  • Chicago Zionist Leon Zolotkoff
  • Romance of a People Video Premiere
  • Oral History Excerpt: Max Targ
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Winter
  • Zionist Odd Couple: Chaim Weizmann and Albert Einstein
  • Legacy of Rabbi Chaim Mednick
  • Oral History Excerpt: Rabbi Leonard Mishkin
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1996

Fall

  • Habonim: Labor Zionist Youth Organization
  • Oral History Excerpt: Jack Fishbein
  • Maxwell Street Memories
  • Rare Coin from 1923 Fund Drive
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Summer

  • Ze'ev Jabotinsky
  • Oral History Excerpt: Manny Silver
  • Spertus Exhibit
  • "Precincts, Parties & Platforms"
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Spring

  • Rabbi Bernhard Felsenthal
  • Oral History Excerpt: Erma Baer
  • New Irving Cutler Book
  • Memories of Meyer Levin
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Winter

  • Nathan Leopold vs. Meyer Levin
  • Oral History Excerpt: Jules Furth
  • Quiz Kid Ruth Duskin Feldman
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1995

Fall

  • Edna Ferber
  • Oral History Excerpt: Hillel Gamoran
  • Installment Dealers
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Summer

  • Dankmar Adler
  • Oral History Excerpt: Peter Ascoli
  • Chicago Area Cantors
  • Memories of Rodfei Zedek
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Spring

  • Moe Berg
  • Oral History Excerpt: Marion Ascoli
  • Hart Schaffner & Marx: 1910 Labor Dispute & Settlement
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Winter

  • Hal Fox: Fashion and Music
  • Oral History Excerpt: Phil Lind
  • Ambijan
  • In Memoriam: Elsie Orlinsky
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1994

Fall

  • Lazarus Silverman
  • "A Streetcar Named Kedzie"
  • Oral History Excerpt: Judith Gottlieb
  • Tiktin Jewish Community
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Spring

  • Etz Chaim Yeshiva
  • Adolf Kraus and Sergius Witte
  • Oral History Excerpt: Ben Bentley
  • Chicago USO in WWII
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Winter

  • ZOA Chicago Convention 1919
  • Oral History Excerpt: Rabbi David Polish
  • Sidney Sorkin's Book on Landsmanshaften
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1993

Fall

  • Chicago's Jewish Prizefighters
  • Oral History Excerpt: Bertha Rissman
  • Chicago's Last Wooden Synagogue
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Summer

  • Maxwell Bodenheim
  • Oral History Excerpt: Justice Seymour Simon
  • National Council of Jewish Women
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Spring

  • Manny Abrahams
  • Oral History Excerpt : Archie Aronin
  • Harris Horwich's Ethical Will
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1992

Fall

  • 1946 Pageant "A Flag is Born"
  • Ben Hecht's Controversial Life
  • Oral History Excerpt: Dolly & Jack Galter
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Summer

  • Chicago's Havurot
  • Marks Nathan Home Reunion
  • 1943 Pageant "We Shall Never Die"
  • Oral History Excerpt: Justice Arthur Goldberg
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Winter

  • Edward S. Salomon
  • The University of Chicago
  • Rabbi Jacob Weinstein
  • The Two Maxie Eisens
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1991

Fall

  • Jews and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra: "From Fanny to Danny"
  • Shmarya Levin's Visit to Chicago in 1906
  • Chicago's Jewish Newspapers
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Summer

  • Clarence Darrow and Stephen Wise Debate Zionism
  • First CJHS Minsky Memorial Prize Winners
  • Jewish History in the Pacific Northwest
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Spring

  • Julius Rosenwald and The University of Chicago
  • Julius Rosenwald and Aaron Aaronsohn
  • Chicago's Earliest Synagogues
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Winter

  • Davey Miller's Scrapbook
  • Memoir: Hannah Meites Gordon
  • Chicago's Sephardic Jews
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1990

Fall

  • CJHS Reprints H.L. Meites's History of the Jews of Chicago
  • Jewish Albany Park
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Summer

  • Achooza Colony in Palestine 1915
  • Arthur Hertzberg's The Jews in America
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April

  • Dankmar Adler, the Rabbi's Son
  • Reprint of Meites History Underway!
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January

  • Jews in Chicago Politics Since 1920
  • Landsmanshaften Exhibit at Spertus
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