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Vol. 49, No. 1, Winter 2025 chicago jewish historical societ y Look to the rock from which you were hewn CHICAGO JEWISH HISTORY “Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge”—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Chicago: An Incubator for the American Dream By Kathy Kurtzman Lawrence, PhD, Georgetown University W ith his usual perspicacity, […]

Vol. 44, No. 4, Fall 2020 CHICAGO JEWISH HISTORY The Annual Book IssueEditor’s Column: Ode to the Indie Bookstore F or me, a child of the 1970s, nothing could provide more sustenance than the neighborhood bookshop. The bookish, ungainly only child of bookish and painfully ill-matched parents, I found refuge in the cozy comfort of […]

A sweet Passover to our members and friends. “The Seder nights… tie me with the centuries before me.” —Lu dwig Frank Vol. 46, No. 2, Spring 2022 chicago jewish histor ical society Look to the ro ck from w hich yo u were hewn CHICAGO JEWISH HISTORY Vol. 46, No. 2, Spring 2022 chicago jewishhistorical […]

Editors’s Note : The following is the first installment of a series about Highland Park ’s Congregation Solel and its rabbi in the 1960s, Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, a dynamic Chicago prese nce and vocal progressive who served at Solel from 1957 to 1972 and at Chicago’s KAM Isaiah Israel from 19 80 to 2000. […]

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chicago jewish history Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter 2000 chicago jewish historical society Look to the rock from which you were hewn Abraham Lincoln: The Tribute of the Synagogue ABRAHAM LINCOLN Statue by August St. Gaudens in Lincoln Park; photograph from H.L. Meites “History of the Jews of Chicago,” 1924 Society Open Meeting on February […]

chicago jewish history Vol. 25, No. 3, Fall 2001 chicago jewish historical society Look to the rock from which you were hewn Save the Date! Sunday, Sept. 23: Open Meeting to Feature New Book by Cutler IN THIS ISSUE Photos of Mizenberg Funeral Cortege, 1914 Peter Bergson, the Irgun, and Chicago Myron Fox: A Jewish […]

chicago jewish history Vol. 28, No. 2, Spring 2004 chicago jewish historical society Look to the rock from which you were hewn IN THIS ISSUE Leo Strauss at the University of Chicago From the Archives: The Diaries of Irma Frankenstein Oral History Excerpts: WWII Fem-Vet Pearl Lieberman Report on March 21 Meeting: “Maxwell Street Kaleidoscope” […]

chicago jewish history Vol. 29, No. 2, Spring 2005 chicago jewish historical society Look to the rock from which you were hewn IN THIS ISSUE Meyer Levin and the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937 Meites Page 441 and Saul Bellow Labor Union Activist Mollie West Hast Lecture at UIC: Chicago Woman’s Aid Nahmod Lecture at […]