By Robert A. Packer

The disappearing history of Chicago's Jewish past can be found in the religious architecture of its stately synagogues and communal buildings. These buildings reflected their members' views on faith and their commitment to the neighborhoods where they lived in a time when individuals and community were inseparable from their neighborhood synagogues, temples, and shuls. Nearly 150 years of Chicago history unfolds in these pages with photographs, stories, and documents that tell of these synagogues' past greatness, and their uncertain future.

Arcadia Publishing