Avengers and defenders : glimpses of Chicago's Jewish past / / Walter Roth

• Autore: Roth Walter
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, Illinois : , : Academy Chicago, , 2008; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Disciplina: 977.311004924
• Soggetto topico: Jews - Illinois - Chicago - History; Jews - Social conditions; Jews - History - 1789-1945; Jews - History - 1945-
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I: Trouble in the City; 1: Jewish Connections to the Haymarket Bomb Tragedy; 2: The Peoria Street Riots of November 1949; 3: Meyer Levin and the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937; 4: Levy Mayer and the Iroquois Theatre Fire; 5: Frankie Foster: Did he Really Murder Jake Lingle?; Part II: Business in the City; 6: Albert Davis Lasker: ""The Father of Modern Advertising""; 7: Ernest Byfield: The Pump Room and the Pageant; 8: Williams S. Paley: Good Night, and Good Luck; 9: Elizabeth Stein, Photographer ; 10: Mail Order & Bungalows: Philanthropist Benjamin J. Rosenthal11: Demise of the Foreman-State Bank: Was it ""Shylock in Reverse""?; 12: Nelson Morris and the Stockyards; Part III: Culture in the City; Meyer Levin and the Kibbutz Buchenwald Diary; Isaac Rosenfeld: Humboldt Park's Troubled Literary ""Golden Boy""; Part IV: Science in the City; 15: Leo Strauss at the University of Chicago; 16: Martin D. Kamen: Science and Politics in the Nuclear Age; 17: From Berlin to Chicago: ""Lucky"" Molecular Biologist Gunther Stent; Part V: Avengers and Defenders ; 18: The Mexican Adventure of Paul Rothenberg19: Sholom Schwartzbard: The Avenger; 20: Julian M. Mack: Life in Chicago; 21: Judge Samuel Alschuler of the Seventh Court; 22: Terminiello vs. Chicago: The Free Speech Case; Part VI: Lovers of Zion; 23: Jabotinsky: The Zionist Leader and Ideological Forebear of Today's Likud Party Drew Attention Wherever He Went, Even During his Two Visits to Chicago; Part VII: Addenda: Author's Messages to the Chicago Jewish Historical Society 2003-2007; 24: Dr. Edward Hirsch Levi: The Greatest Lawyer of his Time ; 25: ""Is Jerusalem Burning?"" Myth, Memory and the Battle of Latrun26: Daniel Barenboim Workshop in the Middle East; 27: 1001 Afternoons in Chicago; 28: Eli Wiesel and Night; 29: Dr. Erika Fromm, Famed Psychologist; 30: Albert Einstein: The ""Undesirable Alien""; 31: Chicago Jewish Philanthropists; 32: A Three Generation Visit to Israel; 33: How to Kiss a Catholic Priest; 34: Hecht and Levin; 35: Aaron Director, University of Chicago Free Market Economist; 36: Italy 2005: Victory Celebration; 37: How the Son of Ulysses S. Grant Helped a Galtizianer; 38: A German-Jewish Dialogue
• Sommario/riassunto: Walter Roth delves deep into the archives of Chicago's Jewish past, and provides a new collection of illuminating essays on its various aspects. Booklist said of his previous collection, Looking Backward: True Stories from Chicago's Jewish Past, ?Roth writes about the well-known and the not-so-well-known, bringing to life the peOut of Printle, events and institutions that shaped the Jewish community." Roth is also co-author of An Accidental Anarchist, about the killing of a Jewish immigrant by Chicago's Chief of Police in 1908. Kirkus Reviews said, ?The authors have skillfully removed the dust
• Titolo autorizzato: Avengers and defenders
• ISBN: 1-306-86564-6; 0-89733-823-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463951503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II