Report

Report
Author: Michigan State Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 660
Release: 1874
Genre:
ISBN:

Report

Report
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 688
Release: 1874
Genre:
ISBN:

Report of the State Librarian

Report of the State Librarian
Author: Pennsylvania State Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 570
Release: 1855
Genre: Pennsylvania
ISBN:

Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.

Sundays at Sinai

Sundays at Sinai
Author: Tobias Brinkmann
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2012-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226074560

First established 150 years ago, Chicago Sinai is one of America’s oldest Reform Jewish congregations. Its founders were upwardly mobile and civically committed men and women, founders and partners of banks and landmark businesses like Hart Schaffner & Marx, Sears & Roebuck, and the giant meatpacking firm Morris & Co. As explicitly modern Jews, Sinai’s members supported and led civic institutions and participated actively in Chicago politics. Perhaps most radically, their Sunday services, introduced in 1874 and still celebrated today, became a hallmark of the congregation. In Sundays at Sinai, Tobias Brinkmann brings modern Jewish history, immigration, urban history, and religious history together to trace the roots of radical Reform Judaism from across the Atlantic to this rapidly growing American metropolis. Brinkmann shines a light on the development of an urban reform congregation, illuminating Chicago Sinai’s practices and history, and its contribution to Christian-Jewish dialogue in the United States. Chronicling Chicago Sinai’s radical beginnings in antebellum Chicago to the present, Sundays at Sinai is the extraordinary story of a leading Jewish Reform congregation in one of America’s great cities.

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 494
Release: 1873
Genre:
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Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: United States. Office of Education
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1250
Release: 1896
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: United States. Dept. of the Interior
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1062
Release: 1873
Genre: Natural resources
ISBN:

History of Chicago, Volume III

History of Chicago, Volume III
Author: Bessie Louise Pierce
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2007-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226668428

The first major history of Chicago ever written, A History of Chicago covers the city’s great history over two centuries, from 1673 to 1893. Originally conceived as a centennial history of Chicago, the project became, under the guidance of renowned historian Bessie Louise Pierce, a definitive, three-volume set describing the city’s growth—from its humble frontier beginnings to the horrors of the Great Fire, the construction of some of the world’s first skyscrapers, and the opulence of the 1893 World’s Fair. Pierce and her assistants spent over forty years transforming historical records into an inspiring human story of growth and survival. Rich with anecdotal evidence and interviews with the men and women who made Chicago great, all three volumes will now be available for the first time in years. A History of Chicago will be essential reading for anyone who wants to know this great city and its place in America. “With this rescue of its history from the bright, impressionable newspapermen and from the subscription-volumes, Chicago builds another impressive memorial to its coming of age, the closing of its first ‘century of progress.’”—E. D. Branch, New York Times (1937)