Journal Archive 2010-Now

Journal Archive

 

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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Journal Index 1977-2012

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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