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Vol. 48, No. 3, Summer 2024 chicago jewish historical societ y Look to the rock from which you were hewn CHICAGO JEWISH HISTORY “If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope —Marc Chagall The Jews of Illinois Valley: A Granddaughter’s […]

chicago jewish history Vol. 34, No. 1, Winter 2010 chicago jewish historical society Look to the rock from which you were hewn Eugene and Sylvia Cotton: Fighting the Good Fight BY WALTER ROTH O n Monday, November 19, 2001, at Chicago’s Mart Plaza Hotel, the Illinois Labor History Society held its Union Hall of Honor […]

c h i c a g o j e w i s h h i s t o r y Vol. 37, No. 2, Spring 2013 ch ica go jew ish h isto r ica l so ciety Look to the rock from which you were hewn T o u rs o f O u […]

Vol. 43, No. 2, Spring 2019 chicago jewish historical societ y Look to the rock from which you were hewn CHICAGO JEWISH HISTORY Memorials and Celebrations The Fourth of July Weekend, 1999: Remembering a Tragedy KAREN KAPLAN I n Chicago twenty years ago, a series of tragic events unfolded on the Fourth of July weekend. […]

chicago jewish history Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring 2000 chicago jewish historical society Look to the rock from which you were hewn IN THIS ISSUE Society Events for Spring, Summer, and Fall 2000 Carl Sandburg’s Letter to Jacob M. Loeb Memoir: Sam Kweskin Remembers His Northwest Side Boyhood Solomon Miller: Jewish Scoutmaster in Leeds and […]

chicago jewish history Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer 2001 chicago jewish historical society Look to the rock from which you were hewn IN THIS ISSUE Sandy Aronin: Jewish History on Postcards Jewish Big Sisters: 85th Anniversary Enrico Glicenstein: 1930s Sculptures for the Covenant Club Summer Tours 2001 Oral History Excerpt: Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz CJHS […]

chicago jewish history Vol. 25, No. 4, Year-End 2001 chicago jewish historical society Look to the rock from which you were hewn Save the Date! Sunday, November 18: Adele Hast to Speak on Women Who Helped Build Chicago Rose Haas Alschuler. Chicago Jewish Archives. At the November 18 Open Meeting of the Society, Past President […]

chicago jewish history Vol. 26, No. 2, Spring 2002 chicago jewish historical society Look to the rock from which you were hewn IN THIS ISSUE From Berlin to Chicago: “Lucky” Molecular Biologist Gunther Stent Family Memoir: “The Street” by Harriet Karm Berman From the Archives: Chicago Jewish Music– The Empire Room Fragments of Chicago’s Jewish […]

chicago jewish history Vol. 28, No. 4, Fall 2004 chicago jewish historical society Look to the rock from which you were hewn IN THIS ISSUE Jewish Book Month: CJHS Publications and Books by Members of the Society Vera Caspary: Chicagoan Wrote “Laura” and Much More in Hollywood Marshall Sklare: Chicagoan Studied Jewish Identity on the […]

chicago jewish history Vol. 29, No. 4, Fall 2005 chicago jewish historical society Look to the rock from which you were hewn Bookplate by Todros Geller, 1928. Chicago Jewish Archives. tive on “The March on Skokie Controversy” at Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob Synagogue on April 3; the program on the Greenebaum family at North Shore Congregation Israel on June 19; Judge Abner Mikva’s oral history at K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Congregation on September 18; and the Caryn Amster program that was to follow the meeting at Temple Sholom on November 6. At a subsequent Board meeting, officers were elected to a two-year term. President Walter Roth, Vice-President Burt Robin, and Recording Secretary Dr. Carolyn Eastwood were reelected. The resignation of Treasurer Herman Draznin was accepted, and Dr. Edward H. Mazur was elected to succeed him. Herman Draznin has served the Society since its earliest years—for over a quarter of a century. He was involved in an exciting event in Chicago Jewish history, when, as a young boy, he participated in the gymnastics exhibition during Jewish Day at the 1933 Century of Progress. He was a proud and happy (see picture) participant in our October 2000 commemoration of that day. Herman remains an active member of the Board.   v CJHS Annual Meeting:  Society Elects Board Members, Reviews Year’s Activities On Sunday afternoon, November 6, at Temple Sholom, President Walter Roth called to order a brief year-end meeting of the Society.  The first order of business was the election of members to the Board of Directors for a three-year term. Leah Axelrod, Harold T. Berc, Dr. Irving Cutler, Dr. Rachelle Gold, Roslyn Lettvin, and Dr. N. Sue Weiler—all current Board members—and a new nominee, Melynda Lopin, were all unanimously elected by voice vote.  President Roth noted that 2005 had been filled with interesting programs: his talk on Ben Hecht and Meyer Levin at the Newberry Library on February 9; Dr. AdeleHast’stalk on Chicago Women’s Aid at UIC on March 8; Prof. Sheldon Nahmod’s twenty-five year perspec- IN THIS ISSUE Family Memoir: Writer Leonard Dubkin, Urban Nature Lover Meyer Levin, Hassidism, and  The Golden Mountain […]