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The Jews of Chicago
From Shtetl to Suburb
Irving Cutler
Cloth978-0-252-02185-5
$36.95
| Pub Date: | 1996 |
| Pages: | 336 pages |
| Dimensions: | 7.75 x 11 in. |
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. The first comprehensive history of Chicago's Jewish population in seventy years, it brings to life the people, events, neighborhoods, and institutions that helped shape today's Jewish community.
The first book to describe and differentiate each of the major Jewish neighborhoods, The Jews of Chicago includes original maps showing the numerous institutional facilities that have been so essential to the lives of the communities. Each neighborhood history is intertwined with 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, Mandy Patinkin, and Mel Torme; radio personality Studs Terkel; noted rabbis Emil G. Hirsch, Saul Silber, and Solomon Goldman; actor Paul Muni; businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald; advice columnist Ann Landers, and many others well known and not so well known.
From their roots in the Old Country to their present day communities, Irving Cutler captures in extraordinary detail the remarkable saga of the Jews of Chicago. This definitive history also includes a glossary of terms, chronology, notes, and a selected bibliography.
Awards:
First Place for Best Regional Book, Mid-America Publishers Association Book Awards, 1996.
Subjects:
Judaic Studies / History, Immigration / History, State & Local / Illinois / History, Am.: 19th C. / History, Am.: 20th C. / Chicago / Midwest Regional
