Chicago's Jewish West Side to be the focus of the JGSI hybrid meeting on Sunday, March 17, 2024

“It’s a Small World! Genealogy on Chicago’s Jewish West Side” will be the topic of Marshall High School alumna Beverly Chubat for the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois hybrid meeting on Sunday, March 17, 2024. She will discuss and take questions about institutions such as the Jewish People’s Institute and the Douglas Park Theater.

Her online talk will begin at 2 p.m. CDT via Zoom and at Temple Beth-El, 3610 Dundee Road, Northbrook, Illinois. She will be speaking REMOTELY, and her presentation will be projected onto the wall at Temple Beth-El.

The JGSI meeting facilities at Temple Beth-El will open at 12:30 p.m. Central Time for those who want to use genealogy library materials, including our collection of maps; get help with family history websites or ask genealogical questions, or just chat, before the main program begins at 2 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome; however, registration is strongly encouraged. Feel free to bring your lunch!

RSVP by clicking the registration button at left.

Beverly Chubat attended the I. L. Peretz and Workmen’s Circle Yiddish folk schools on the West Side of Chicago and spent summers at Camp Kinderland in South Haven, Michigan, in an atmosphere rich in Yiddishkeit and Jewish cultural history. She has a BFA from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Bev was the editor/designer of the Chicago Jewish Historical Society quarterly journal (1999-2019). A writer and an artist, she is now also a freelance researcher for the Chicago History Museum.

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