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The Italians in Chicago: A social and economic study (Volume 9 of Special report of the Commissioner of Labor). United States Bureau of Labor. Government Printing Office, 1897. Nelli, Humbert S. Italians in Chicago, 1880-1930: a study in ethnic mobility, Volume 2 (Urban life in America Series). Oxford University Press, 1970.
Jewish universities and colleges in the U.S. include: American Jewish University , formerly University of Judaism and Brandeis-Bardin Institute (merged), Los Angeles, California. Gratz College , Melrose Park, Pennsylvania
Mallinckrodt College (1916–1991, Wilmette), merged with Loyola University Chicago [4] [5] Mundelein College (1930–1991, Chicago) merged with Loyola University of Chicago [6] Old University of Chicago (1856–1886, Chicago) Robert Morris University Illinois (1913–2020, Chicago), merged into Roosevelt University in 2020
Hebrew Theological College (HTC) was founded in 1921 in the city of Chicago by Chaim Tzvi Rubinstein (1872–1944) and Saul Silber (1876–1946). Rubinstein, an alumnus of Volozhin Yeshiva, had arrived in the United States in 1917; Silber, a pulpit rabbi in Chicago, served as president of the school for its first 25 years. [2]
The immigration of Italians accelerated throughout the late 19th century and into the early 20th century. Chicago's foreign-born Italian population was 16,008 in 1900 and peaked at 73,960 in 1930. [6] The largest area of settlement was the Taylor Street area, but there were also 20 other significant Italian enclaves throughout the city and suburbs.
Eastern European Jews made up 80% of the city's Jewish population, which accounted for 8% of Chicago's total residents at the time. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] Starting after World War II , wide-scale suburbanization of the Chicago-area Jewish community began, influenced by white flight , the availability of affordable vacant land, and the opening of the ...
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According to the Washington Post, every major section in the application process, including geographic diversity, legacy preference, the interview and freshman class cap were part of an effort to address "the Jewish problem" and reduce the number of Jewish students. Columbia University in New York City, Harvard, Yale and Princeton were among ...