Volume 8, Number 2 (Spring 2022)
Special Symposium: The Jewish Midwest
Introduction
Jon K. Lauck
Articles
Jewish “Iron Rangers”: Jewish Settlement on Minnesota’s Iron Range
Marilyn J. Chiat
“There Are No Cultural Islands like Ceshinsky’s”: Ceshinsky’s Community Bookstore and Intellectual Space in Chicago, 1922–1966
Erin Faigin
Eyzehu M’koman Shel Zevakhim? [What is the Site of the Ritual Sacrifice?]: Yiddish Writers Encounter the Chicago Meatpacking Industry
Jessica Kirzane
Culture and Politics in Cleveland’s Hebrew Cultural Garden
Sean Martin
“Minneapolis: The Curious Twin”: A Reexamination
Laura Weber
Book Reviews
Kerry Pimblott, Faith in Black Power: Religion, Race, and Resistance in Cairo, Illinois
Samantha Horton
Sara Egge, Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870–1920
Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Kristopher Maulden, The Federalist Frontier: Settler Politics in the Old Northwest, 1783–1840
Patrick Allan Pospisek
Jane Ann Moore and William F. Moore, Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality: Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolition
Rochelle E. Danquah
Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett, Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland
David Woken
Book Review Essay
Goths and Visigoths: Jon Hassler and the Midwestern Moral Universe
Jon K. Lauck
Media Reviews
Detroit, dir. Kathryn Bigelow, 2017
Jacob DeBrock
Breaking Away, dir. Peter Yates, 1979
Sheng-mei Ma
Internal/Rural Disaster and Recovery in Take Shelter (dir. Jeff Nichols, 2011)
Matthew Sorrento
Conversations
An Interview with Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist, Farah Stockman
An Interview with Iowa’s Poet Laureate, Debra Marquart
Remembrances
Midwestern Fashion Pioneer: Virgil Abloh, 1980–2021
Holly M. Kent
A Poet of the Midwest: Robert Bly, 1926–2021
David R. Pichaske
Note
How the Midwest Shaped the Way We Bank: Early Twentieth-Century Banking Politics
Christopher W. Shaw