Looking Backward
Roth, Walter The history of Jews in Chicago is a fascinating, complex and largely unknown story. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Walter Roth, current President of the Chicago Jewish Historical Society, much of this history is preserved in these pages. Now, for the first time in a paperback format, this material has been distilled into a single volume, chronicling events and people from the late nineteenth century to the end of World War II. Such luminari...