Sundays at Sinai : a Jewish congregation in Chicago /
First established 150 years ago, Chicago Sinai is one of America & rsquo;s oldest Reform Jewish congregations. Its founders were upwardly mobile and civically committed men and women, founders and partners of banks and landmark businesses like Hart Schaffner & Marx, Sears & Roebuck, and...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Founding and early development
- Jacob and his sons
- Origins and founding
- Fighting for emancipation
- A step too far? the introduction of Sunday services at Sinai
- Felix Adler comes to Chicago
- Social justice and civic action
- Emil G. Hirsch and the transformation of Sinai
- Bildung versus 'ghetto'
- Spiritual leader and employee?
- The beginnings of a Jewish-Christian dialogue
- "Institutional synagogue"
- Building bridges
- Decline and renaissance
- Falling behind
- Epilogue.