03045nam 2200649 a 450 991081295200332120200520144314.01-58729-486-9(CKB)1000000000459802(EBL)843136(OCoLC)66385869(SSID)ssj0000183804(PQKBManifestationID)11154322(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000183804(PQKBWorkID)10199338(PQKB)11498334(MiAaPQ)EBC843136(MdBmJHUP)muse9294(Au-PeEL)EBL843136(CaPaEBR)ebr10354633(EXLCZ)99100000000045980220031010d2004 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrIrma a Chicago woman's story, 1871-1966 /[edited by] Ellen FitzSimmons Steinberg1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Pressc20041 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-894-4 0-87745-896-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-220) and index.Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Remembrances of Chicago, 1871; 2. Recollections of Childhood, 1871-1888; 3. Reflections on Education, 1875-1891; 4. Grandpa and Emerson, 1876-1898; 5. Young Love, 1891; 6. Marriage and Children, 1898-1906; 7. Children and Learning, 1910-1912; 8. Politics, Nature, and Travel, the 1920's; 9. Staying Afloat during the 1930's; 10. War and Its Victims, 1933-1957; Photo insert; 11. Changes, 1950-1966; Notes; Bibliography; IndexEllen Steinberg's Irma, painstakingly crafted out of Irma Rosenthal Frankenstein's voluminous writings, gives us an inspiring and richly rewarding account of the life and times of an active, socially engaged woman who devoted herself to her family and her community over the course of a long and full life. Irma (1871-1966) was born in Chicago-just before the Chicago Fire-of German Jewish parents who had come to the U.S. shortly after the Civil War. Irma attended public schools and the University of Chicago, participated energetically in Jewish women's and social-welfare activities, raised herJewish womenIllinoisChicagoBiographyJewish womenIllinoisChicagoArchivesJewsIllinoisChicagoBiographyJewsIllinoisChicagoSocial life and customsChicago (Ill.)BiographyJewish womenJewish womenJewsJewsSocial life and customs.977.3/11004924/0092BFrankenstein Irma Rosenthal1871-1966.1704484Steinberg Ellen FitzSimmons1948-1623936MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812952003321Irma4090543UNINA