Journal Archive: 2000s

2009
Fall

  • Poet Isaac Reingold
  • Industrialist Max Epstein
  • Mather High Reunion
  • Michael Kotzin Program
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Summer

  • Astronaut John Grunsfeld
  • Marshall Symphony Orchestra
  • Chicago Loop Synagogue
  • New Light Cemetery
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Spring

  • Boxing Figure Ike "Kid" Bernstein
  • Reports on Open Meetings: An Archivist's Journey;
    The Jews of Austin High School; Avengers and Defenders
  • Ed Mazur's Pages From The Past
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Winter

  • Abraham Kohn's 1861 Flag
  • Chicago's Jews & Abraham Lincoln
  • Sándor (A. Raymond Katz)
  • Rosika Schwimmer
  • Rabbi Louis J. Chaimovitz
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2008
Fall

  • Ralph Helstein: Labor Movement Idealist
  • Award-Winning Essays
  • Jacob Arvey Reports on His First Visit to Israel
  • The Sentinel—Digitized!
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Summer

  • Philanthropist Walter S. Mander
  • Award-Winning Scholars
  • Archives Intern Meets Architect
  • Return to Chikaming Township
  • Calling All Authors!
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Spring

  • Nelson Morris
  • Bessie Abramowitz Hillman
  • Muriel Gardiner
  • Seymour Pomrenze
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Winter

  • Judge Samuel Alschuler
  • Photographer Samuel G. Alschuler
  • Centennarian Leon M. Despres
  • Chicago Jewish Archives in New Home
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2007
Fall

  • Governor Henry Horner
  • Published Works by CJHS Members
  • Artist Rose Ann Chasman
  • Terminiello vs Chicago
  • Program Report: "The Jews of Hyde Park High School"
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Summer

  • Judge Julian W. Mack: The Court and the Community
  • Ann Barzel: Dancer, Teacher, Critic, Collector
  • Tour Report: "North and Northwest Side Jewish Roots"
  • Chicago Park District Facilities named for Jewish People
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Spring

  • Sholom Schwartzbard: The Avenger
  • Nell Pekarsky: Witness to History
  • The Young Ladies' Club of Cong. B'nai Israel
  • Report on "Uncle Ben" Aronin Program
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Winter

  • Paul Rothenberg's Mexican Adventure
  • Program Report: Jewish Movie Theater Owners
  • 1977: Our First Year
  • From the Archives: The WWII Tablecloth
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2006
Fall

  • Year-End Review: Our Popular Public Programs and Tours
  • Danny Newman's Memoir: Tales of a Theatrical Guru
  • Harry Zelzer: Chicago's Impresario
  • Updated List of CJHS Publications and Books by Society Members
  • From the Archives: Mikdosh El Hagro Hebrew Center
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Summer

  • Albert Lasker "The Father of Modern Advertising"
  • Artist Gail Shapiro
  • Exhibit "Common Ground: Lawndale's Shared History"
  • Program Report: "The Jews of Marshall High"
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Spring

  • Hotelman Ernest Byfield—The Pump Room and the Pageant
  • The Doctors Beck— Their Hospital on North Clark Street
  • From the Archives: Bikkurim in Douglas Park
  • Tour Report: "Jewish Graceland" Cemetery
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Winter

  • William S. Paley—From Cigars to Broadcast News
  • Katharine Kuh—Her Love Affair with Modern Art
  • From the Archives: Cousins Remember Cong. Kesher Israel
  • Oral History: Educator, War Hero David H. Heller
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2005
Fall

  • Family Memoir: Writer Leonard Dubkin, Urban Nature Lover
  • Meyer Levin, Hassidism, and The Golden Mountain
  • From the Archives: The Library of the JPI
  • CJHS Publications and Other Works by Society Members
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Summer

  • CJHS Donates Prizes to Teen Historians
  • CJHS Announces Research Grant
  • Albert Halper on Chicago Workers' Lives in the 1930s
  • From the Archives: The Digitizing Intern
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Spring

  • Meyer Levin and the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre
  • Meites Page 441 and Saul Bellow
  • Labor Activist Mollie West
  • Program Report: "Chicago Women's Aid 1920-1960"
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Winter

  • Jewish Civil War Soldiers
  • Gitta Gradova, Chicago - Born Concert Pianist
  • Did Frankie Foster Murder Jake Lingle?
  • Program Report: "Ben Hecht and Meyer Levin"
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2004

Fall

  • Isaac Rosenfeld and Humboldt Park
  • Vera Caspary and Hollywood
  • Marshall Sklare and the Suburbs
  • Program Report "The Politics of Chicago Jewry 1850-2004"
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Summer

  • 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
  • Isaac Van Grove and "The Romance"
  • Cong. Bnai Emunah 1953-2004
  • Program Report "Cong. BJBE/ Chicago Jews in the Civil War"
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Spring

  • Leo Strauss at the U of Chicago
  • The Diaries of Irma Frankenstein
  • WWII Fem-Vet Pearl Lieberman
  • Program Report "Haym Salomon in Chicago"
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Winter

  • Scientist Martin D. Kamen
  • Dr. Louis D. Boshes
  • Alpha Sigma Iota Fraternity
  • Program Report "Ruth Rothstein"
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2003

Fall

  • The Foreman-State Bank
  • Publisher L.M. Stein
  • Summer Tours Report
  • Program Report "Cong. Kol Ami"
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Summer

  • CJHS Publishes "A Walk to Shul"
  • Peoria Street Riots of 1949
  • Chicago Jewish Women in the 20th Century
  • Program Report "History of Shaare Tikvah"
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Winter/Spring

  • 1943 Marshall Commandos
  • Levy Mayer and the Iroquois Theater Fire
  • Babette Mandel
  • Sol Brandzel
  • Program Report "The Shomrim Society"
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2002

Year-End

  • CJHS 25th Anniversary Exhibit
  • Hadassah Baskin and the Covenant Club
  • Walter Roth Book
  • Program Report "Seymour Simon"
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Summer

  • Benjamin J. Rosenthal: Mail Order and Bungalows
  • Chicago Jewish Women in the Military
  • Nobel Laureate Jack Steinberger
  • Cong. B'nai Zion
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Spring

  • Biologist Gunther Stent
  • The Empire Room
  • Program Report "Jewish Firefighters"
  • Program Report "Ida Crown Academy"
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Winter

  • Maxwell Street Video and Book
  • Abraham Lincoln Shopped Here
  • Program Report "Women Building Chicago" and "Roosevelt High School Mini Reunion"
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2001

Year-End

  • Chicago's Jewish Movie Exhibitors
  • A Jewish Family and Chicago's Taxi Wars in the 1920s: Part II
  • 60th Anniversary: The George Washington, Robert Morris, and Haym Salomon Statue
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Fall

  • Peter Bergson, the Irgun, and Chicago
  • A Jewish Family and Chicago's Taxi Wars in the 1920s: Part I
  • Johanna Lodge
  • Mizenberg Funeral Photographs
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Summer

  • Jewish History on Postcards
  • Jewish Big Sisters: 85th Anniversary
  • Sculptor Enrico Glicenstein
  • Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz
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Spring

  • 1893: Jews on the Midway
  • Painter Leo Segedin
  • The Jerzy Kozinski Papers
  • Program Report "Chicago Sinai Congregation"
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2000

Year-End

  • 1933: World's Fair Jewish Day Pageant Commemoration
  • 1893: Yom Kippur on the Midway
  • Sam Shapiro and Illinois Politics
  • Summer Tour "Living Waters"
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Summer

  • Sol Bloom, the Music Man
  • Chicago's Jewish Newspapermen
  • 1933: A Boy Scout at the World's Fair
  • Zionism in Chicago
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Spring

  • Carl Sandburg's Letter to Jacob M. Loeb
  • The First Jewish Scoutmaster
  • A North Side Boyhood
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Winter

  • 1865: Abraham Lincoln Eulogies: Rabbis Adler and Felsenthal
  • Moe Annenberg
  • The West Rogers Park Eruv
  • Preserving Your Family Photographs
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