Through The Eyes of Their Children
By: Myron H. Fox.
Contributors: Chicago Jewish Historical Society.
Series: Doris Minsky Memorial Fund publication ;
Publisher: Chicago Jewish Historical Society
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Fox family; Fox, Philip; Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography; Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Chicago (Ill.) -- Ethnic relations; Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: This book by a devoted son deals with a murder during Chicago's bloody taxicab war of the 1920s. The author's father was a Checker Cab driver who was arrested, tortured, convicted of murder, and imprisoned for life, and after almost two years of imprisonment, was substantially exonerated by a pardon. it also recounts the eighty-year story of the author's immigrant Jewish family who came from Eastern Europe in 1912 and made their way to Chicago. It is an extraordinary and touching act of filial piety designed to defend the memory of a dead father.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.