The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780252021855)

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 Torm , 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.

Author: Irving Cutler
ISBN-10: 0252021851
ISBN-13: 9780252021855
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1996
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.68lbs
Size: 11.26h x 7.99w x 1.03d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/1996 pg. 780