Irving Cutler

The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Ethnic History of Chicago
• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• REV W/New Pref
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 197mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 791g
• ISBN-13: 9780252076442
• ISBN-10: 0252076443
• Artikelnr.: 25446696

Autorenporträt

Irving Cutler

Inhaltsangabe

Preface, xi 1. The First Wave The German-Speaking Jews, 1 Introduction
Early Chicago
The Jews of Germany
The First Jewish Arrivals in Chicago
The Emergence of a Community and Its Institutions
The Formative Years
The Civil War Period
The Great Chicago Fire and Its Aftermath
Building South Side Institutions 2. The Second Wave The Eastern European Jews, 40 Historical Background
Shtetl Life
Maxwell Street: A Shtetl in Chicago
Earning a Living
Maxwell Street Marketing
Maxwell Street Institution
The Landsmanschaften
The Yiddish Theater
Relations between German Jews and Eastern European Jews
Maxwell Street Legacy 3. Through the World Wars Expanding Communal Activity, 103 The Effect of the World's Columbian Exposition
Through the World War 1 Perio
Relief for Eastern Europe and Palestine
The Growth of Zionism
Further Communal Development after World War 1
Decades of Tragedy and Triumph: The 1930s and 1940s 4. Moving Upward The Arts, Professions, and Commerce, 136 The Literary Field
Artists
Music
Sports
Health Care
Bar, Bench, and Other Government Services
Commerce and Industry
The Jewish Labor Movement 5. The Last Half-Century Changing Neighborhoods and Lifestyles, 193 Declining Diversity and Shared Concerns
The South Side
Lawndale, the Largest of All
The West Town-Humboldt Park - Logan Square Area
The Albany Park - North Park Area
Rogers Park and Nearby Lakefront Communities
West Rogers Park
The Exodus to the Suburbs
The North and Northwest Suburbs
Chicago-area Jewry Today: Problems and Progress Glossary, 281 Chronology, 283 Notes, 289 Selected Bibliography, 297 Index, 303