Avengers and Defenders: Glimpses of Chicago's Jewish Past

"Meticulous research brings alive in equal measure some of the best-known and least remembered, but fascinating, episodes in Chicago Jewish history." —Michael Feldberg, Executive Director, American Jewish Historical Society

Walter Roth delves deep into the archives of Chicago's Jewish past in this collection of illuminating essays. The presence of Jews in Chicago goes back to 1841 and, Roth, a scholar of Jewish history in the city, looks at the more colorful and little-known aspects of Jew...