5139. A History of the Sioux City Jewish Community 1869 to 1969, by Bernard Shuman (read 27 Mar 2014) This book was published in 1969 and tells as much about the Sioux City Jewish community's history as the author was able to uncover. It is filled with names of people who anybody who lived in Sioux City before 1969 will recognize as active members of the Sioux City community. The author left Sioux City in 1972 and moved to Israel, where he died in 2007. The Jewish community already in 1969 was declining in numbers, as it has continued to do. The Jewish Community Center which was erected in 1950 after years of effort has now been sold and is no longer the center of Jewish activity as it was in the years after it was built. The memorial to the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust has been moved to a Sioux City synagogue. I found this book a nostalgic look into Sioux City's past. ( )