The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South (Indiana University Press, 2006), the major biography. Brinkmann, Tobias, "Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago" (2012), on Rosenwald's Jewish philanthropy. Burton, Charles Wesley and Laura Dancy Burton, The North Star: Julius Rosenwald's Impact Upon Black America (2008) Diner, Hasia R. Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World. (Yale University Press, 2017). Embree, Edwin R. Investment in People? The Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund. 1949. Emmet, Boris, and John E Jeuck. Catalogs and Counters: A History of Sears, Roebuck and Company (1950), a scholarly history Werner, M. R. Julius Rosenwald: The Life of a Practical Humanitarian. 2nd ed. 1939. External links "Rosenwald Apartment Building", Archiplanet. The North Star (2008) Diane Granat, "Saving the Rosenwald Schools: Preserving African-American History", APF Reporter, Vol. 20 #4, Alicia Patterson Fund Guide to the Julius Rosenwald Papers 1905-1963 at the University of Chicago Special Collections 1862 births 1932 deaths American people of German-Jewish descent American retail chief executives Businesspeople from Chicago Burials at Rosehill Cemetery Jewish American philanthropists People from Springfield, Illinois . Sears Holdings people Rosenwald family Philanthropists from Illinois 19th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American philanthropists Council of National Defense