Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago (Historical Studies of Urban America)

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First established 150 years ago, Chicago Sinai is one of The usa’s oldest Reform Jewish congregations. Its founders were upwardly mobile and civically committed women and men, founders and partners of banks and landmark businesses like Hart Schaffner & Marx, Sears & Roebuck, and the giant meatpacking firm Morris & Co. As explicitly up to date Jews, Sinai’s members supported and led civic institutions and participated actively in Chicago politics. In all probability most radically, their Sunday products and services, introduced in 1874 and still celebrated these days, became a hallmark of the congregation.
In Sundays at Sinai, Tobias Brinkmann brings up to date Jewish history, immigration, urban history, and spiritual history together to trace the roots of radical Reform Judaism from across the Atlantic to this unexpectedly growing American metropolis.  Brinkmann 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 USA. Chronicling Chicago Sinai’s radical beginnings in antebellum Chicago to the present, Sundays at Sinai is the strange story of a leading Jewish Reform congregation in one of The usa’s great cities.

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