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CUTLER, IRVING - The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb

Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full maroon cloth, silver lettering on spine, maroon endpapers. Profusely illustrated with ove 160 B&W photographs and maps. 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 Tormé, 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.. The volume is in excellent condition, showing only the slightest wear at the head and heel of the spine, else as new; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket shows on slight shelf-wear. FINE/NEAR FINE. The Ethnic History of Chicago Series. B&W Photographs and Maps. 4to 11" - 13" tall. xii, (i), 316, (1) pp. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16 | JP¥ 3060] Booknumber: 27677

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