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Nathan Englander’s Parsha
From April ’12 Spotlight: Nathan Englander came to the Harold Washington Library Center in February to read from What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, his latest collection of short stories. As the translator of New … Continue reading
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We Are Here
From April ’12 Spotlight: Ellen Cassedy spoke about her new book We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaustat KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park in March, and she is returning for a program sponsored by the Balzekas Museum of … Continue reading
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Mazel Tov, Cyndee!
From April ’12 Spotlight: Cyndee Schaffer’s book Mollie’s War: The Letters of a WWII WAC in Europe just won first place in the 2012 Royal Dragonfly Contest in the Biography/Autobiography/Memoir category! Schaffer has numerous public appearances planned for the spring, … Continue reading
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Marie Waife-Goldberg
From March ’12 Spotlight: Also on March 11 (but a few hours earlier), I’ll be doing a Women’s History Month program of my own down at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park. The subject is “Sholem Aleichem’s Women: A Tribute … Continue reading
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The Hanukkah Lamp
From Jan ’12 Spotlight: When you lit your first candle on Dec. 20, how much thought did you give to your menorah? Maybe it’s a family heirloom, or maybe you recently purchased it online, but have you ever asked yourself … Continue reading
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Sacred Trash
From Jan ’12 Spotlight: “The Ben Ezra Geniza was the size of a glorified walk-in closet. Yet here was an entire civilization… a kind of holy junk heap… composed of hundreds of thousands of scraps of paper.” So say Peter … Continue reading
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In the Garden of Beasts
From Tzivi’s Sept ’11 Spotlight: “It was because I had seen so much of injustice and domineering little groups, as well as heard the complaints of so many of the best people of the country, that I ventured as far … Continue reading
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IIT’s Boder Archive
From Tzivi’s June ’11 Spotlight: During the final days of World War II, Psychology Professor David Boder of the Illinois Institute of Technology began petitioning the US State Department for permission to enter Displaced Persons camps in France and Germany to … Continue reading
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An Accidental Anarchist
From Tzivi’s June ’11 Spotlight: Beginning in 2006, when Illinois created a commemorative day named for Jane Addams, I’ve been continually surprised by all the forgotten links between Addams and Chicago’s Jewish community. Addams pops up again as a major … Continue reading
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Sharing Chagall
From Tzivi’s June ’11 Spotlight: On May 15, Vivian Jacobson (who currently lives in North Carolina) gave a series of talks related to her new book Sharing Chagall. I attended the morning session at Beth Hillel Congregation Bnai Emunah in … Continue reading
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