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First established 150 years ago, Chicago Sinai is one of America'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 the giant meatpacking firm Morris & Co. As explicitly modern Jews, Sinai's members supported and led civic institutions and participated actively in Chicago politics. Perhaps most radically, their Sunday services, introduced in 1874 and still celebrated today, became a hallmark of the congregation.In Sundays at Sinai, Tobias Brinkmann brings modern Jewish history, immigration, urban history, and religious history together to trace the roots of radical Reform Judaism from across the Atlantic to this rapidly growing American metropolis. ÿBrinkmann shines a light on the development of an urban reform congregation, illuminating Chicago Sinai's practices and history, and its contribution to Christian-Jewish dialogue in the United States. Chronicling Chicago Sinai's radical beginnings in antebellum Chicago to the present, Sundays at Sinai is the extraordinary story of a leading Jewish Reform congregation in one of America's great cities.
""Sundays at Sinai" is an important and well-crafted book that places this pioneer congregation firmly within the context not only of Judaism, but also the history of immigration and of Chicago. Tobias Brinkmann is an excellent practitioner of the historical method combining detailed research with new insights that widen and deepen our knowledge of the Jewish experience both in America and Europe."
--Dominic A. Pacyga, author of Chicago: A Biography
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Founding and Early Development | |
| Jacob and His Sons | p. 11 |
| Origins and Founding | p. 31 |
| Fighting for Emancipation | p. 54 |
| A Step Too Far? The Introduction of Sunday Services | p. 79 |
| Felix Adler Comes to Chicago | p. 100 |
| Social Justice and Civic Action | |
| Emil G. Hirsch and the Transformation of Sinai | p. 123 |
| Bildung versus "Ghetto" | p. 148 |
| Spiritual Leader and Employee? | p. 170 |
| The Beginnings of a Jewish-Christian Dialogue | p. 197 |
| "Institutional Synagogue" | p. 220 |
| Building Bridges | p. 243 |
| Decline and Renaissance | |
| Falling Behind | p. 267 |
| Epilogue | p. 293 |
| List of Abbreviations | p. 301 |
| Notes | p. 303 |
| Index | p. 353 |
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ISBN: 9780226074542
ISBN-10: 0226074544
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 368
Published: 26th June 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.3 x 16.0
x 3.073
Weight (kg): 0.676
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