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1 "Chicago An It's Jews" (A Cultural History By Philip P Bregstone) A Review By unclear Heuer?

It is not unlikely that Bregstone's volume "Chicago and Its Jews" will create a controversy, whether or not it may be rearfedas a history. Probably because it is still close to the past and therefore is lacking the perspect- tive. As a general rule, it is difficult to classify a volume of contemporaneous history just off the press. But no one will dare deny that the book is an important contribution for the present day Jews of Chicago who are eager to know the origin of the second largest Jewish community in America. Mr. Bregstone quotes from Professor Meyer Bolaban's work "The Jews in Poland," where he said "There were two kinds of Levites in the Holy Temple of Palestine. One groupe had the task to open the doors of the temple the other group would sing and play." And I say that Bregstone opened the long closed door of the history of the Jews of Chicago and the future historian will come to sing praise to him