Cosmopolitans: a social and cultural history of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area
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1. Verfasser: Rosenbaum, Fred (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©2009
Schriftenreihe:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-414) and index
Boomtown : tumult and triumph in Gold Rush San Francisco -- Woven into the fabric : the confident community of the Gilded Age -- Rooted cosmopolitans : the cultural creativity of the second generation -- Eden of the Pacific : the challenges to Judaism at the turn of the century -- Healing California : Jewish reformers and revolutionaries in the progressive era -- Trials : firestorms and corruption, terrorism and world war -- With a Yiddish accent : East European Jewish neighborhoods -- Good times : the Jewish elite between the wars -- Both sides of the barricades : Jews and class conflict during the Depression -- Cataclysms : responses to the Holocaust and Zionism
Levi Strauss, A.L. Gump, Yehudi Menuhin, Gertrude Stein, Adolph Sutro, Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn--Jewish people have been so enmeshed in life in and around San Francisco that their story is a chronicle of the metropolis itself. Since the Gold Rush, Bay Area Jews have countered stereotypes, working as farmers and miners, boxers and mountaineers. They were Gold Rush pioneers, Gilded Age tycoons, and Progressive Era reformers. Told through an astonishing range of characters and events, Cosmopolitans illuminates many aspects of Jewish life in the area: the high profile of Jewish women, extr
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 439 pages, [32] pages of plates)
ISBN:0520259130
0520945026
1282359991
9780520259133
9780520945029
9781282359994

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