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Chicago’s German Jewish community founded several institutions including Michael Reese Hospital, The Drexel Home for Aged Jews in the Woodlawn neighborhood, and The Standard Club (an exclusive private club located in the Loop).
Contains list of c. 200,000 names of individuals interned in the Lodz ghetto. Entries include sex, birthdate, occupation, address and notes from the German lists. The book contains a summary about the history of the Lodz ghetto.
Frankfort, Budapest, Rome, Venice, Vilna, were among the largest, best-known historical European Ghettos. On the West Side of Chicago, observers and commentators alike noted, a Jewish “ghetto” existed within a slum.
1 sie 2016 · Understanding America's Ghettos Starts With the First Jewish One. Sociologist Mitchell Duneier frames his history of urban black life in America by showing how pre-modern Jewish ghettos were complex spaces in which Jews suffered but also thrived.
17 wrz 2020 · Some of the earliest inhabitants of the Maxwell Street, an east-west street in the area of the Near West Side, were Jewish people who came to America to escape Antisemitism in Eastern Europe and Russia during the turn of the 20 th century (Ranstrom 2006).
Established Jews, Jewish immigrants, and African Americans in Chicago, 1880–1960.
After Chicago’s incorporation by Yankees in 1837, European immigrants flocked to the city through the early 1900s, Irish, Jewish, Polish, German, Italian, Czech/Bohemian, Swedish, Slavic, and Lithuanian immigrants among them.
