Barry Dredze is a freelance reporter, editor and former newspaper publisher in west suburban Chicago; and earned a Masters degree in Jewish Studies from Spertus Institute in Chicago in 2006.
Barry Dredze
By Barry Dredze
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Community George Soros Is Not — And Has Never Been — A Nazi
The occupation of Hungary by the Nazis began by invitation in 1944. In his masterwork “Night,” set in his hometown of Sighet, Hungary (now Romania), Elie Wiesel wrote of Moshe the Beadle, who secretly mentored the young Wiesel in the Jewish mystical writings of the Zohar until Moshe was deported on cattle trains from the…
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Community Chicago May Day In The Time Of Trump
The sidewalks on Des Plaines Avenue beside the memorial sculpture in Chicago’s tiny Haymarket Square were already crowded a half-hour ahead of the scheduled annual May Day rally. Plenty of unions were represented in variously uniform bright colored t-shirts along with families, an ethnically diverse population and the regular activist spectrum of radical students, artists,…
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Slideshows Chicago May Day In The Time Of Trump: Slideshow
The sidewalks on Des Plaines Avenue beside the memorial sculpture in Chicago’s tiny Haymarket Square were already crowded a half-hour ahead of the scheduled annual May Day rally. Plenty of unions were represented in variously uniform bright colored t-shirts along with families, an ethnically diverse population and the regular activist spectrum of radical students, artists,…
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Community The Visceral Charm Of Nelson Algren
Algren: A Life By Mary Wisniewski Chicago Review Press, 384 pages, $30.00 In the Jewish mystical tradition, or Kabbalah, words are the active ingredient of the mortal physical world and the building blocks of creation. The Almighty literally spoke the world we all know into existence. A competent mystic would create amulets for protection, banishment…
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Community The Tragic Socialist Russian Jewish Immigrant At The Root of Our Public Health Debate
One of the guiding lights of public health policy in the United States was a Russian Jewish immigrant who came to this country with plans of being a lawyer and a social advocate. Theodore Bernard Sachs was born on May 2, 1868, a son of a prosperous merchant and owner of the largest department store…
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Community The Secret Jewish History Of The Civil War
Local communities in both the North and South mobilized efforts to organize and equip the armies of the Civil War. In August, 1862, the Jewish community of Chicago met in a series of meetings at the Concordia Club to organize a Jewish company for a new Illinois regiment to be comprised of German and Scandinavian…
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