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The Jews of Chicago : from shtetl to suburb

Title
The Jews of Chicago : from shtetl to suburb / Irving Cutler.
Author
Cutler, Irving.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Description
xii, 315 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm.
Summary
  • The Jews of Chicago - which carefully describes and differentiates each of the city's major Jewish neighborhoodsincludes original maps showing the numerous institutional facilities that have been so essential to the lives of the communities.
  • The book includes representative biographical vignettes of some of Chicago's best-known figures: Edna Ferber, the first Jew to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction; Saul Bellow, who won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for fiction; musicians Benny Goodman and Mel Torme; radio personality Studs Terkel; noted rabbis Emil G.
  • Hirsch, Saul Silber, and Solomon Goldman; actor Paul Muni; actor and musician Mandy Patinkin; businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald; architectural engineer Dankmar Adler; social activist Saul Alinsky; justices Arthur Goldberg, Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, and Abner Mikva, and many others - well known and not so well known.
  • Irving Cutler captures in extraordinary detail the remarkable saga of the Jews of Chicago from their roots in the Old Country to their present-day communities. He explores such questions as who these people were, where they came from, how they adjusted to life in Chicago, and what their current problems and successes are. This definitive history includes a glossary of terms, chronology, notes, and selected bibliography.
Series Statement
The ethnic history of Chicago
Uniform Title
Ethnic history of Chicago.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-301) and index.
Contents
1. The First Wave: The German-Speaking Jews -- 2. The Second Wave: The Eastern European Jews -- 3. Through the World Wars: Expanding Communal Activity -- 4. Moving Upward: The Arts, Professions, and Commerce -- 5. The Last Half-Century: Changing Neighborhoods and Lifestyles.
ISBN
0252021851 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
94047591
OCLC
  • 31814931
  • ocm31814931
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries