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Jewish Milwaukee
South Side Jewish Chicago
A Conversation with Rabbi Herman Schaalman and His Biographer, Richard Damashek
Gangsters and Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago
You Can Go Home Again (A Love/Hate Affair with Albany Park)
B'nai B'rith, The Secular Synagogue
Bus Tours 2014
Chicago 1937 — A Gift to Biro-Bidjan: From Despair to New Hope
What Bonded North Lawndale’s Jews to the Democratic Machine?
AMERICAN HEROES: A Salute to Chicago Jewish Veterans of World War II
“If Not Now…When?” The Birth and Growth of Hillel on Campus
The Saul Bellow Centenary
Chicago Jewish Roots Bus Tour
Springfield, Illinois: “Lincoln and the Jews” Exhibit
Historic North Side Jewish Cemeteries
The Greenebaum Family: From the Rheinpfalz to Chicago
Jewish Connections to Chicago Sports
Are the Hebrews to Have a Censor?
A Realistic Rendezvous? Chicago’s Rabbi Oscar Fasman and New York Orthodox Judaism
VON STEUBEN HIGH SCHOOL The Jewish Glory Days
Music and History
Spring-Summer 2017
Gala 40th Anniversary Celebration
Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism
Chicago Jewish Architects
Sachs: Fighter Against Tuberculosis
Art Exhibition and Discussion
NOTORIOUS BEN HECHT
Tables Turned on Them
A Regiment of Immigrants
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CJHS member Michael Soffer, author of "Our Nazi: An American Suburb's Encounter with Evil," will discuss his new book with CJHS Board member Joel Rubin.
Wed., November 13, 6 p.m.
Bookends & Beginnings bookstore
1620 Orrington Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60201
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Past Programs
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"Memories of Growing Up in Chicago: Recalling Life in the 20th Century," with Neal Samors
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Fall 2024 Journal
IN THIS ISSUE
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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