| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 231 pages) |
| Contents |
Remembrances of Chicago, 1871 -- Recollections of childhood, 1871-1888 -- Reflections on education, 1875-1891 -- Grandpa and Emerson, 1876-1898 -- Young love, 1891 -- Marriage and children, 1898-1906 -- Children and learning, 1910-1912 -- Politics, nature, and travel, the 1920s -- Staying afloat during the 1930s -- War and its victims, 1933-1957 -- Changes, 1950-1966 |
| Summary |
Ellen Steinberg's Irma, painstakingly crafted out of Irma Rosenthal Frankenstein's voluminous writings, gives us an inspiring and richly rewarding account of the life and times of an active, socially engaged woman who devoted herself to her family and her community over the course of a long and full life. Irma (1871-1966) was born in Chicago-just before the Chicago Fire-of German Jewish parents who had come to the U.S. shortly after the Civil War. Irma attended public schools and the University of Chicago, participated energetically in Jewish women's and social-welfare activities, raised her |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Frankenstein, Irma Rosenthal, 1871-1966.
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Frankenstein, Irma Rosenthal, 1871-1966 -- Archives
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Frankenstein family.
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Rosenthal family.
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Frankenstein family fast |
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Frankenstein, Irma Rosenthal, 1871-1966 fast |
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Rosenthal family fast |
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Jewish women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography
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Jewish women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Archives
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Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography
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Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Jewish women
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Jews
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Jews -- Social life and customs
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Jüdin
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography
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Illinois -- Chicago
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Chicago, Ill.
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Archives
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Steinberg, Ellen FitzSimmons, 1948-
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| ISBN |
1587294869 |
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9781587294860 |
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