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An accidental anarchist : how the killing of a humble Jewish immigrant by Chicago's chief of police exposed the conflict between law & order and civil rights in early 20th-century America

door Walter Roth

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It was a bitter cold morning in March, 1908. A nineteen-year-old Jewish immigrant traversed the confusing and unfamiliar streets of Chicago-a one-and-a-half-hour-long journey-from his ghetto home on Washburne Avenue to the luxurious Lincoln Place residence of Police Chief George Shippy. He arrived at 9 a.m. Within minutes after knocking on the front door, Lazarus Averbuch lay dead on the hallway floor, shot no less than six times by the chief himself. Why Averbuch went to the police chief's house or exactly what happened after that is still not known. This is the most comprehensive account ever written about this episode that stunned Chicago and won the attention of the entire country. It does not "solve" the mystery as much as it places it in the context of a nation that was unsure how to absorb all of the immigrants flowing across its borders. It attempts to reconstruct the many different perspectives and concerns that comprised the drama surrounding the investigation of Averbuch's killing.… (meer)
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An Accidental Anarchist is an eminently readable expose of a near-forgotten race-and-politics incident and its fallout in turn-of-the-century Chicago history. On March 2, 1908, a recent Jewish immigrant named Averbuch appear on the doorstep of Chief of Police. Averbuch was promptly killed and labeled an anarchist-out-to-murder-the-Chief-of-Police -- possibly (likely?) incorrectly. Although to this day there is no consensus on Averbuch's motivations on turning up that morning on the rich side of town, the book details the incident, its possible motivations on both sides, and its fallout and relationships to turn-of-the-century politics, fears, ethnic issues, and Chicago history more broadly.

I was surprised at the extent to which I stayed engaged in this book, since I am not a history buff, nor interested in anarchy, nor particularly in Chicago history. As I said earlier, however, it's eminently readable and traces out all the information surrounding this event from the records, contextualizing it in a way that means I learned things I never knew before (including something as basic as that anarchism was a serious fear in 1908 -- oops. musta missed that day in high school.) I was also actually surprised by the active role that many women had in the story -- Emma Goldman, prominent anarchist, and Jane Addams, prominent humanitarian, in particular. Lots of new information on all counts.

Definitely recommended for people interested in Chicago history pre-WWI, race, politics, ethnicity, or anarchism -- or especially to anyone interested in their intersection. ( )
  pammab | Nov 14, 2010 |
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It was a bitter cold morning in March, 1908. A nineteen-year-old Jewish immigrant traversed the confusing and unfamiliar streets of Chicago-a one-and-a-half-hour-long journey-from his ghetto home on Washburne Avenue to the luxurious Lincoln Place residence of Police Chief George Shippy. He arrived at 9 a.m. Within minutes after knocking on the front door, Lazarus Averbuch lay dead on the hallway floor, shot no less than six times by the chief himself. Why Averbuch went to the police chief's house or exactly what happened after that is still not known. This is the most comprehensive account ever written about this episode that stunned Chicago and won the attention of the entire country. It does not "solve" the mystery as much as it places it in the context of a nation that was unsure how to absorb all of the immigrants flowing across its borders. It attempts to reconstruct the many different perspectives and concerns that comprised the drama surrounding the investigation of Averbuch's killing.

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