Crown Center: 475 Years of Jesuit Renaissance Humanist Heritage

Loyola University Chicago: Welcoming Immigrant Families in an Inhospitable Era

Edward A. Crown (1905-1975) was the sixth of seven children born to Arie (born Asie Krinsky) and Ida (née Gordon) Crown, both immigrants from what was then late-19th-c. Russia. Edward reached college age in the post-World War I 1920s, a period of extreme anti-immigrant (and especially anti-Jewish) sentiment in the United States (e.g., the Emergency Quota Act of 1921). In sharp contrast, Loyola University welcomed students from Jewish immigrant families. In 1923, Edward entered Loyola’s School of Medicine and graduated in 1929. Crown Humanities Center continues 475 years of Jesuit humanist education.