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TRUE SISTERS: the Book Is a Translation from the Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity, 1843-1914 Look to the rock from which you were hewn Vol. 37, No. 1, Winter 2013 Revised from earlier print edition chicago jewish historical societ y chicago jewish history Talks, Tours, Art Exhibitions, Movies, Mah Jongg—Let’s Go! Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus has Save the Date! been the rabbi of B’nai Yehuda Beth Sholom in Leo Melamed Speaks Homewood, Illinois, since the congregation was on “Financial Markets founded in 1998 with the merger of Temple B’nai in Chicago and Jews” Yehuda and Congregation Beth Sholom. Sunday, May 19 Rabbi Dreyfus is past The CJHS open meeting on Sunday, May 19 will be president of the Central held at Emanuel Congregation, 5959 North Sheridan Conference of American Road, Chicago. The program begins at 2:00 p.m. Rabbis, the organization of Continued on page 14 nearly 2,000 Reform rabbis in North America and around the world. She is past president of the Chicago Board of Rabbis, the first woman to hold this office. Save the Date! Rabbi Ellen Dreyfus Speaks on “Women in the Rabbinate –Chicago” Sunday, April 14 The next open meeting of the Chicago Jewish Historical Society will be held on Sunday, April 14, 2:00 p.m., at Temple Beth Israel, 3601 West Dempster Street, Skokie. The featured lecture by Rabbi Dreyfus will be preceded by a brief ceremony. Four young playwrights —students or recent graduates of Chicago universities and colleges—will receive the Society’s Emerging Talent Awards for their one-act plays that received staged readings at the Chicago History Museum in connection with the “Shalom Chicago” exhibition. A social hour with kosher refreshments follows each program. General admission is $10 per person at the door. Free admission to CJHS members and members of the host congregations. Ample parking in TBI and Emanuel lots. For further information e-mail [email protected] or phone the Society office at (312) 663-5634. 2 Chicago Jewish History Winter 2013 President’s Column Look to the rock from which you were hewn chicago jewish historical societ y PASSOVER MEMORIES Officers 2013 Dear Society members and friends, I hope you all enjoyed a zisn pesach —a Sweet Passover. Dr. Edward H. Mazur I always celebrate the holiday with a touch President of nostalgia. I think back to our second floor Jerold Levin apartment in the Humboldt Park neighbor- Vice President hood and see my father going down to our Directors basement storage shed shlepping the chomets- Leah Axelrod dike dishes and utensils and coming back up Rachel Heimovics Braun* shlepping the pesachdike collection. Dr. Irving Cutler Edward H. Mazur I remember my parents covering our Dr. Carolyn Eastwood pantry shelves with sheets of brown wrapping Herbert Eiseman paper that I brought home from one of my first paying jobs— Elise Ginsparg stockboy and aide-de-camp at the P. D. Kahn Butter and Egg Store Dr. Rachelle Gold in the 2700 block of West Division Street. Clare Greenberg Then my folks would take the bus to the St. Louis Fish Market Dr. Adele Hast* in Albany Park, where my mother would insist on “only the best” for Janet Iltis her gefilte fish. I imagine that Mr. Cutler, the proprietor, would take Joy Kingsolver some soothing medication when he saw her coming! Mark Mandle Our front hall was filled with cartons of eggs. Oy, the cholesterol! Dr. Stanton Polin We had only one set of Passover dishes, so we ate only fleyshik or Burton Robin parve meals. Eight days of red meat, chicken, and veal. We were a Muriel Rogers* Manischewitz family—no Streits, no Horowitz-Margareten. Walter Roth* Desserts were sponge cake, Barton’s Chocolates and half-moon- Norman D. Schwartz* shaped jelly candies liberally sprinkled with sugar. Diabetes may have Dan Sharon run in my family, but tsuker was enjoyed especially with a glezele Dr. Milton Shulman Swee-Touch-Nee Tea from one of those little red and gold tin chests. Carey Wintergreen PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND JEWS *Past Presiden t Stephen Spielberg’s movie “Lincoln” reminded me that after the Chicago Jewish History President’s assassination, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati Published quarterly by the proclaimed, “Abraham Lincoln believed himself to be bone from our Chicago Jewish Historical bone and flesh from our flesh. He supposed himself to be a Society at 610 S. Michigan Ave., descendant of Hebrew parentage. He said so in my presence. And, Room 803, Chicago, IL 60605. indeed, he preserved numerous features of the Hebrew race both in Phone (312 ) 663-5634. E-mail: countenance and character.” [email protected]. This claim historians recognize as being not rooted in fact, and Successor to Society News. at best, wishful thinking. True, Lincoln was very friendly to Jews, Single copies $4.00 postpaid. including Chicago City Clerk Abraham Kohn. His closest Jewish acquaintance was his chiropodist, Isachar Zacharie—perhaps the Editor/Designer Bev Chubat most famous Jewish foot doctor in history. (Any DPM in our Editorial Board Burton Robin, Society membership is free to dispute this!) Lincoln’s support for Walter Roth, Milton Shulman efforts to amend a Congressional statute barring non-Christians from the military chaplaincy and his rapid countermanding of Send all submissions to: General Ulysses S. Grant’s notorious General Order No. 11— Editor, Chicago Jewish attest to Lincoln’s political savvy rather than tribal solidarity. Historical Society, via e-mail or A Jew, Edward Rosewater, transmitted the Emancipation street address shown above. Proclamation by telegraph from the War Department. If manuscript is sent via standard mail, enclose SASE. Continued on page 15 Chicago Jewish History Winter 2013 3 Upcoming Events & Ongoing Exhibits Germans vs. Russians: The Origins of Chicago’s Organized Jewish Community 1859-1923 A Shalom Chicago Event — Sunday, April 21, 2:00 p.m. — at the Spertus Institute Tobias Brinkmann discusses Chicago’s Jewish community from the founding of the United Hebrew Relief Association in 1859 to the creation of Jewish Charities of Chicago in 1923, a time when organizations that served “German” (Central European) Jews merged with those that served “Russian” (Eastern European) Jews. He will assess the highly charged conflicts between established members of the community and more recent immigrants, conflicts that had much to do with social status and assimilation and little to do with actual origins. Dr. Tobias Brinkmann is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Penn State University. He is a member of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Board of the Leo Baeck Institute in London. His most recent publication is Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago. Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning & Leadership • 610 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago General Admission $18, Students $10 – Spertus members and CHM members $10 Purchase tickets at www.spertus.edu or phone (312) 322-1773 Jewish Modernists in Chicago Shalom Chicago Through April 26 Through September 2 Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning & Leadership Chicago History Museum 610 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago 1601 North Clark Street, Chicago Chapter Seven in the series: Uncovered & Rediscovered Presented in collaboration with the Spertus This chapter shares the work of an influential group of Institute, Shalom Chicago illustrates the Jewish Jewish artists active in Chicago between 1920 and 1945. community’s rich history and contributions to Predominantly Eastern Chicago’s growth and development, through European immigrants or personal stories, rare artifacts, and engaging first generation Americans, multimedia presentations. Many of the artifacts many began their careers are on loan from Spertus. during the Great Depression as painters for Mah Jongg May the Works Progress Play the ancient Chinese game of Mah Jongg, Administration (WPA). as popularized by Jewish-American women in The Modernists, as they the early twentieth century. The Chicago were called, painted from History Museum is devoting the entire month personal experience and of May to this game of strategy and luck! were influenced by the Mah Jongg Open Play energy of their growing Sundays, May 5, May 12, May 19, and May 26, metropolis. Sándor (A. Raymond Katz), 2:00–5:00 p.m. Uptown. Cover, The Chicagoan , See works by Todros Geller, Chinese Roots of Mah Jongg November 23, 1929. A. Raymond Katz, Mitchell Tuesday, May 21, 6:30–8:00 p.m. See the full-color image in the online Siporin, Fritzi Brod, and edition of Chicago Jewish History at In this discussion of the cross-cultural love of www.chicagojewishhistory.org others. Mah Jongg, the Chicago Chinese community Admission to the lobby exhibit and related shares its history and connection with “M. J.” multimedia screening stations is free For details and to purchase tickets: Exhibit Hours: Sunday –Wednesday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m www.chicagohistory.org (312) 642-4600 Thursday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m, Friday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 4 Chicago Jewish History Winter 2013 Upcoming Events & Ongoing Exhibits 29th Chicago Latino Film Festival: Mexican-Jewish Series Presented by The International Documentary Latino Cultural Center Visa to Paradise Mexico (2010) 112 min. Mexican-Jewish Series April 13-25 Director: Lillian Liberman Shkolnikoff. Spanish w/English subtitles. A passport often means the AMC Loews Theatres possibility to travel to a new destination. Here, it is 600 North Michigan Avenue quite literally the ticket to life. Gilberto Bosques, Mexico’s General Consul in France between 1939 and For details and to purchase tickets: 1942, saved thousands of lives by issuing passports to chicagolatinofilmfestival.org Jewish and Spanish Republicans who were being displaced from occupied Spain and Germany. Bosques himself often filmed all the areas he visited, Documentary contributing rare footage of those exiled. Perhaps his In the Steps of Abraham Mexico (2010) 90 min.
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