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Items with the tag:

chicago

Fic­tion
Calm Sea and Pros­per­ous Voy­age: Select­ed Stories
Bette How­land
Non­fic­tion
The Kosher Capones: A His­to­ry of Chicago’s Jew­ish Gangsters
Joe Kraus
Interview

Redis­cov­er­ing Bette How­land: Brigid Hugh­es and Jacob How­land in Conversation

Brigid Hugh­es, Jacob How­land
July 1, 2019
Fic­tion
The Lake on Fire
Rosellen Brown
Chil­dren’s
City of Grit and Gold
Maud Macrory Powell
Fic­tion
Windy City Blues
Renée Rosen
Fic­tion
On Bit­ter­sweet Place
Ron­na Wineberg
Chil­dren’s
Her Moth­er’s Secret
Barbara Garland Polikoff
Fic­tion
Love is a Rebel­lious Bird
Elayne Kasson 
Non­fic­tion
Sun­days at Sinai: A Jew­ish Con­gre­ga­tion in Chicago
Tobias Brinkmann
Non­fic­tion
Jew­ish Maxwell Street Stories
Shuli Eshel and Roger Schatz
Fic­tion
Hunger and Thirst
Daniela Kuper
Non­fic­tion
A Woman of Uncer­tain Char­ac­ter: The Amorous and Rad­i­cal Adven­tures of My Moth­er Jen­nie (Who Always Want­ed to be a Respectable Jew­ish Mom) By Her Bas­tard Son
Clancy Sigal
Fic­tion
Love and Shame and Love
Peter Orner
Non­fic­tion
The 188th Cry­ba­by Brigade: A Skin­ny Jew­ish Kid From Chica­go Fights Hezbollah
Joel Chas­noff
Essay

Hil­lel House, Uni­ver­si­ty of Chicago

In her last post, Abby Sher, author of Amen, Amen, Amen: Mem­oir of a Girl Who Couldn’t Stop Pray­ing (Among Oth­er Things) wrote about revis­it­ing her…
Abby Sher
December 9, 2009

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