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The Mountain Jewish community of Nalchik was the largest Mountain Jewish community occupied by Nazis, [31] and the vast majority of the population has survived. With the help of their Kabardian neighbors, Mountain Jews of Nalchik convinced the local German authorities that they were Tats , the native people similar to other Caucasus Mountain ...
Another early Jewish settler was Cap. Samuel Noah, the first Jewish graduate of West Point, who taught school at Mount Pulaski, Illinois in the late 1840s. As of 2013, Illinois has a Jewish population of 297,935. [1] Approximately three-fourths of them live in Chicago. Peoria and Quincy have the second- and third-largest Jewish communities.
The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb. University of Illinois Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0252021855; Cutler, Irving. Chicago's Jewish West Side. Arcadia Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-0738560151. Cutler, Irving. Jewish Chicago: A Pictorial History. Arcadia Publishing, 2000. ISBN 978-0738501307; Meites, Hyman Louis (editor). History of the Jews of ...
It follows traditional Jewish liturgy and laws, including Sabbath and "a modified version of kosher dietary laws". [ 11 ] The congregation is currently housed in a previously existing synagogue purchased from the Lawn Manor Hebrew Congregation, a Conservative temple of Ashkenazi Lithuanian Jews at West 66th Street and South Kedzie Avenue in the ...
The first Jews to settle in Chicago after its 1833 incorporation were Ashkenazi. In the late 1830s and early 1840s German Jews arrived in Chicago, mostly from Bavaria. Many Jews in Chicago became street peddlers or eventually opened stores, some of which grew to larger companies.
Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel (Hebrew for: "People of Peace" followed by "Children of Israel") is a Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 540 West Melrose Street, in the Lakeview neighborhood on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.
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Makom Solel Lakeside is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 1301 Clavey Road, in Highland Park, Illinois, in the United States. The congregation's origins date back to the founding of the Lakeside Congregation for Reform Judaism in 1955 and Congregation Solel in 1957. The two congregations merged in 2019.