The Jews of Chicago: Fron Shtetl to Suburb (Ethnic History of Chicago)

The Jews of Chicago: Fron Shtetl to Suburb (Ethnic History of Chicago) image
ISBN-10:

0252021851

ISBN-13:

9780252021855

Author(s): Cutler, Irving
Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 01, 1996
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
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Description:

Vividly told and richly illustrated with more than 160 photographs, The Jews of Chicago is the fascinating story of the cultural, religious, fraternal, economic, and everyday life of Chicago's Jews. This edition of Irving Cutler's definitive historical volume also includes a new foreword written by the author. The first comprehensive history of Chicago's Jewish population in eighty years, The Jews of Chicago brings to life the people, events, neighborhoods, and institutions that helped shape today's Jewish community. Cutler intertwines neighborhood histories with representative biographical vignettes of some of Chicago's best known figures, such as Edna Ferber, Saul Bellow, Benny Goodman, Mel Tormé, Studs Terkel, Paul Muni, Mandy Patinkin, Emil G. Hirsch, Julius Rosenwald, Dankmar Adler, Arthur Goldberg, Philip Klutznick, and many others. From their roots in the Old Country to their present-day communities, Cutler captures in extraordinary detail the remarkable saga of the Jews of Chicago.












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