Journal Archive

2025

Spring

• Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch and Jane Addams: A Not-So-Odd Couple
• The Hunt for David Bekker
• More Tales from the Shomrim Society
• Notes to My Granddaughter: A Child in Chicago During World War II
• Jewish Chicago and Charleston, South Carolina: Exploring Differences and Commonalities
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Winter

• Chicago: An Incubator for the American Dream
• Reflections on the Jewish History of Humboldt Park
• More on Chicago’s Jewish Pharmacies
• My Son, the Jewish Policeman. More Tales from the Shomrim Society
• CJHS Welcomes Ray Asher to the Board
• Mike Todd and the 80-Day Sensation
• Oak Park-River Forest’s Jewish Community: 1945-Present. Part II
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2024

Fall

• Oak Park’s Jewish Community 1916-1945
• Chicago’s First Jewish Hospital
• Interview with Author Michael Soffer
• Book Review: “A Rosenberg by Any Other Name"
• More Tales from Shomrim: My Daughter, the Policewoman
• Chicago Remembers Hersh Goldberg-Polin
• Cancel Culture Extends to Jewish Books
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Summer

• Chicago’s Jewish Pharmacies
• My Son, the Jewish Policeman—More Tales
• The Jews of Illinois Valley
• The Bochurs of Summer
• More “Anshe Moments”
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Spring

• Chicago’s Two Yiddish Dailies
• CJHS June Program Presents Chicago Maven Neal Samors
• My Son, the Jewish Policeman
• Remembering Leah Axelrod
• Program Recap: The Yiddish “Young Chicago” Poets
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Winter

• Celebrating 150 Years: Anshe Emet Synagogue
• The Jewish Chaplaincy Community Initiative
• Welcome to CJHS’ New Treasurer
• Yiddish Young Chicago Poets
• From Chicago to Harvard and Back: The Horween Brothers
• Chicago’s Landsmanshaften
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2023

Fall

• Reflections on Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf and Congregation Solel
• Remembering Dr. Irving Cutler: 100 Years of Caring and Commitment
• Revisiting Albany Park
• The Yeshiva: A Century of Torah and Leadership
• Meet CJHS Author Dr. Sandra McGee Deutsch
• “Arrested Development: The Secret Life of Nathan Leopold”
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Summer

• Growing Up Jewish in Sawyer, Michigan
• Marek Szwarc: Uncovering an Artistic Mystery
• Chicago’s Sephardic Congregation
• Q-and-A with Rep. Jan Schakowsky
• Chicago’s First LGBTQIA+ Synagogue: Or Chadash
• Artist Beverly Ellstrand
• Union Pier Bar Mitzvah Prep
• Muriel Robin Rogers Prize
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Spring

• The Controversial Legacy of Sol Bloom
• Portrait of a Jewish Family from Danville
• Congregation Beth Jacob, Lakeside, Michigan
• Jewish Child Labor in Chicago
• Will Wonders Never Cease?
• Profile in Courage: Elmer Fisher
• War Letters
• A Day at the Museum: Summer Tour
• A Visit to the National Library of Israel
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Winter

• Adventures on Chicago’s West Side
• Jews and the 1893 Columbian Exposition
• The Palestinian Shul
• Toby, Danny, and The Bagel
• Jewish Servicemen from Chicago
• Synagogues of Chicago’s South Side
• The Jewish Chicago Research Portal
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2022

Fall

• THE ANNUAL BOOK ISSUE
• North Lawndale — Then and Now
• Clara Landsberg: Part II
• Member Profile: Dr. Jessica Kirzane
• Chicago’s American Jewish Artists Club
• Remembering a Chicago Jewish Deli Man: Dan Wolf
• CJHS-JNDC West Rogers Park Photo Exhibit
• CJHS Upcoming Program: The Jewish History of Shure Incorporated
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Summer

• Bakeries and Community: Shore Bakeries
• Jews in the Produce Business
• Life Lessons in the Jewelry Business
• Clara Landsberg and Hull House
• Revisiting Waldheim Cemetery
• Israeli Dancing in Chicago
• Remembering Clare “Chaikey” Greenberg
• Chicagoan Preserves His Grandfather’s Artistic Legacy
• West Rogers Park Jewish Photo Exhibit
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Spring

• The Education of a Budding Jewish Activist
• The Jewish Beginnings of WFMT
• An Interesting Artifact from 1946
• The Genesis of Jewish Studies at UIUC
• The History of Sheerit Hapleitah
• A Visit to the Pritzker Military Museum and Library
• The Jews of Summer: An Exhibit in Berrien County, Michigan
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Winter

• The Mervis Archives at UIUC
• Chicagoans in the Jewish Legion
• From Budapest to Chicago: Reflections on an Immigrant Experience
• CJHS Program Recap: North Side Shuls
• Urbana-Champaign Memories Continued
• The History of the Ida Crown Jewish Academy
• Thank You, and Best Wishes
• A Year in Review: 2021 CJHS Programs
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2021

Fall

• THE ANNUAL BOOK ISSUE
• Around Chicago in 90-Plus Years
• Chicago’s Young Jewish Athletes
• Anne Rorimer’s “Monuments Man”
• The Librarian Recommends: Rachel Kamin’s Reading List
• New and Notable Books
• Book Review: “Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel”
• Urbana-Champaign Memories: Alvin Sokolow, Ph.D.
• The High Holy Days: A Walk to Shul in North Lawndale
• We Want You—and Your (West Rogers Park) Images!
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Summer

• Who’s New? Dr. Eliot Slovin
• Maxwell Street—Then and Now
• Urbana–Champaign: The Pride of Hillels
• The Kulle Affair: Part II
• Let’s Dance
• Jews for the Birds
• Jon Scheyer: The Sporting Life
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Spring

• The Three Patriots Monument: Why It Matters
• Aviva Futorian, Civil Rights Attorney
• The Kulle Affair: A Nazi Hiding in Plain Sight
• Quincy’s Jewish Families
• Cynthia F. Gensheimer, Historian of Midwest’s Jews
• Pesach in the Early 1940s
• Poetry Corner: “The Shabbos Candles”
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Winter

• A Mural Thrives in Chicago
• The Stories of Chicago’s Jewish Vendors
• Flags of the Forefathers and Foremothers
• Growing Up in North Lawndale
• Chicago Jewish History Curriculum Initiative
• Zoom Roundups: Jewish Summer Camp and Abraham Kohn
• Chicago’s Big Machers in the White House
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2020

Fall

THE ANNUAL BOOK ISSUE

• Of Golems and Girls
• Children’s Book Corner
• New and Notable Books
• Books by CJHS Members
• Ode to the Indie Bookstore
• A Tribute to Librarian Dan Sharon
• New Membership Chair Patti Ray
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Summer

• Jewish Women's Efforts to Pass the 19th Amendment
• New Members: The Honorable George and Susan Van Dusen
• History of the Danville, Illinois, Jewish Community
• In Memoriam: Dr. Adele Hast
• CJHS' First Zoom Program: "The Kosher Capones"
• Profile of Artist Jerry Pritikin
• Ha-Kol Annual: Iyar 5698
• Jews on Skid Row During the Great Depression
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Spring

• Art Meets Activism: Peggy Lipschutz
• The CJHS in the “New Normal’
• Wanderlust: Chagall’s The Four Seasons
• What’s Nu? The Ryder-Adams Family
• Dr. Irving Cutler’s “My Mother, the Jailbird”
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Winter

• New Feature on New Member: Marshall Fields
• A Daughter Charts Her Father's Jewish Journey Through Chicago
• Recalling Two Chicago Jews of Valor
• A Second Look at Chicago Artist David Bekker
• A Legacy of Giving
• Save the Dates: May 17 and June 14
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2019 

Fall

• THE ANNUAL BOOK ISSUE
• Chicago's Jewish Art Scene
• Jewish Chicagoans in WWII
• Joel Greenberg: A Life in Pursuit of Birds
• Growing Up Jewish in The Western Suburbs
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Summer

• The GVS (Great Vest Side)
• Kuppenheimer Stadium
• Von Steuben HS History Club
• Jewish Pioneers in Naperville
• Fall Program Previews
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Spring

• Fourth of July Tragedy Remembered
• Congregation Or Torah Jubilee
• Northwestern U: Library & Exhibition
• Eating Along Jewish Roosevelt Road
• Tour Report Reprint: North Central Illinois
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Winter

• CJHS President Emeritus Walter Roth
• Illinois Governor Henry Horner
• Samuel Alschuler and Samuel Shapiro
• Berthold Loewenthal
• Sheldon Harnick and "Fiddler"
• The Radwine/Picker Family
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2018

Fall

• Arts at the JPI and the JCC
• Temple Judea in Lawndale
• B'nai Zion in Rogers Park
• "Lower Your Voice, Rose"
• Illinois Jewish Roots: Danville
• Books by CJHS Members
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Summer

• Congregation Atereth Zion
• Jewish Roots in Sandwich IL
• Lawson Softball
• Hilda Satt Polacheck
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Spring

• Bluesman Mike Bloomfield
• A Jewish Family in Coal Country
• Memories of Jeffery Manor
• Report: Herzl School Heritage Tour
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Winter

• Architecture Program Preview 
• Anniversary Celebration Review 
• Sweaters from Vienna to Chicago 
• Remembering Dr. Rolf A. Weil 
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2017

Fall

• Herzl in Lawndale
• Torah Mantels in Wisconsin
• Prins Letters 1872-1878
• CJHS Members' Publications
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Summer

• Horween of Harvard
• Moishe of Maxwell Street
• Warsaw—An Amazing Visit
• CJHS 40th Anniversary
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Spring

• Election of Officers
• Spring Reviews and Summer Previews
• Screenwriter Carl Foreman
• Remembering Milt Shulman and Stan Polin
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Winter

• Our 40th Anniversary 1977-2017
• Why 40 is a Special Number
• Pages From the Past
• Kolin Avenue Memories
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2016

Late Fall

• Published works by CJHS Members
• Chicago’s Jewish Aldermen: A Complete List?
• Five German Refugee Students Who Made an Impact
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Summer-Fall

• Chicago Jewish Aldermen
• Daisy's Diary 1894
• Von Steuben High School
• Waldheim Jewish Cemetery
• Haymarket Tragedy 1886
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Spring

• Program Report: Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman
• Sam Klowden's "Home Kids" Photos
• The Heimann Family Collection
• Remembering Abner J. Mikva
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Winter

• Program Report: "Are the Hebrew to Have a Censor?"
• The Purim Shpiel Come to America (and Chicago)
• A Purim Sketch: "Rabbi Mendel"
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2015

Fall

• Columbus and Ezekiel
• The Many Origins of HTC
• Rosenwald: Social Justice and Jewish Safety
• Reports: Two Programs and a Tour
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Summer Journal

• Fall Events Preview
• Tour Reports: “Roots” and “Lincoln”
• Reprint: Salzenstein’s Store
• Zionism and Mussar at HTC
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Spring Journal

• Saul Bellow Centenary
• Hillel on Campus
• Chicago Jewish WWII Vets
• Let's Go to "The Show"
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Winter Journal

• Lincoln and the Jews
• Memories of WWII Service
• Jewish Spain and Portugal
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2014

Fall Journal

• Norman David Schwartz
• Report: Biro-Bijan Program
• Report: Jacob Arvey Program
• Report: Lawn Manor Reunion
• Services in “The Castle”
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Summer Journal

• World War I and Chicago’s Jews
• Richard Tucker in Chicago
•  Reports: B’nai B’rith Program and Three Summer Tours
• Union Pier Memories
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Spring Journal

• Sachs to Deutsch to Korshak
• The Hairpin Lofts
• Softball Star Jeanette Feuerstein
• Summer Tours Registration
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Winter Journal

• Morris B. Sachs: A Chicago Original
• Albany Park: The Singer Pharmacy
• Martha Newman: Suburban Pioneer
• Sophia Gutt Goodman: “Home Kid”
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2013

Fall Journal

• Reports: Milwaukee Tour,
  Schaalman and Grossman Programs
• Publications by CJHS Members
• Sidney Sorkin Memorial
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Summer

• Calling All Authors—See Page 5
• Program Preview: Rabbi Schaalman
• Report: Jewish South Side Tour
• Memoir: Grenshaw Talmud Torah
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Spring

• Spring Lectures
• Summer Tours
• Looking Back at Albany Park
• The "Zionist Mayflower"
• Book Review: Sundays at Sinai
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Winter

• Programs & Exhibitions
• Tuley High School Jewish Alumni
• Walter Roth Memoir
• Reprint: Johanna Lodge
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2012

Fall

• THE BOOK ISSUE
• From Bialystok to Chicago
• Our Publications
• Our Authors
• Sullivan High School
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Summer

• Jews in Chicago's Meat Industry
• Refuge: Stories of the Selfhelp Home
• Downtown Jewish Chicago
• The Marx Brothers in Chicago
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Winter/Spring

• Orthodoxy/Traditional Judaism in Chicago
• Mayor Rahm Emanuel
• West Side Basketball
• Jewish Merchant Princess of State Street
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2011

Fall

• Dancer Nathan Vizonsky
• Our Publications
• Our Authors
• Jewish Chaplains Monument
• AZM Honors MACHAL
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Summer

• Mariah Schuldt, Historian
• Roth Family Trip to Roth, Germany
• Lawn Manor Hebrew Congregation
• Dankmar Adler Architecture
• Jewish Geography: Finland & Cuba
• Jewish Merchant Princes of State Street
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Spring

• Jewish Hospitals in Chicago
• Ernest Bloch & His Chicago Jewish Colleagues
• Jewish Merchant Princes of State Street
• Pages from the Past
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Winter

• Meet New President Ed Mazur
• Jewish Geography
• Song Parodist Allan Sherman
• Family Memoir: Hyde Park
• Family Memoir: Roosevelt Road
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2010

Fall

• Election of CJHS Officers
• Politician Bernard Epton
• Educator Dr. Irving Barkan
• Book Section: Our Authors
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Summer

• Announcement: October Meeting
• American Jewish Congress 1986
• David Bergelson Visit 1929
• Report: Summer Art Tour
• "Pages from the Past"
• Ronald Chizever
• Horst F. Abraham
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Spring

• Summer Tours
• Artist David Bekker
• David & Miriam Canter
• Book Notes
• Ravisloe Country Club
• Chevra Kadisha
• Pages from the Past
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Winter

• Eugene & Sylvia Cotton
• Dale Lind Program Preview
• Melville Herskovits
• Jewish Geography
• Camp Chi Program Report
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