History of the Jews in Utah and Idaho
Author : Juanita Brooks
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Juanita Brooks
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Gloria L. Cronin
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1438140614
Presents a reference on Jewish American literature providing profiles of Jewish American writers and their works.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Jewish historians
ISBN :
Author : Lee Shai Weissbach
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300127650
In this book, Lee Shai Weissbach offers the first comprehensive portrait of small-town Jewish life in America. Exploring the history of communities of 100 to 1000 Jews, the book focuses on the years from the mid-nineteenth century to World War II. Weissbach examines the dynamics of 490 communities across the United States and reveals that smaller Jewish centers were not simply miniature versions of larger communities but were instead alternative kinds of communities in many respects. The book investigates topics ranging from migration patterns to occupational choices, from Jewish education and marriage strategies to congregational organization. The story of smaller Jewish communities attests to the richness and complexity of American Jewish history and also serves to remind us of the diversity of small-town society in times past.
Author : Leon L. Waters
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 1952
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Author : Eileen Hallet Stone
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
"Even my Dad had a hard time finding a place when he and my mother were first married...Momma was pregnant with Berenice, and he went to a woman who had a house. He asked if they could rent a place. She said, no, she couldn't rent to Jews. Dad said, 'Well, now I know why Jesus was born in a manger.'" --Ruth Matz McCrimmon, A Homeland in the West Rather than a history of Utah Jews, this is a book of Utah Jewish histories. A Homeland in the West collects the stories and the voices of men and women drawn west by choice or by chance, people who made their way and earned their living in a culture often alien, occasionally hostile, sometimes welcoming. These are the stories of immigrants and explorers, artists and merchants, senators and soldiers. Culled from countless hours of oral histories comprising more than ninety current and archived interviews, Eileen Hallet Stone has gathered reminiscences that tell a tale of life in Utah from a seldom-heard perspective. These singular threads--supplemented with stirring photographs, traditional recipes, and a Yiddish glossary--weave a rich and varied tapestry of Utah's enduring Jewish heritage. Every page is a testament to the individuals who help create the state's collective history. Meet: * Solomon Nunes Carvalho, who was invited by Colonel John C. Frémont to join his final, near-fatal expedition across the Rocky Mountains in search of a viable route for the country's first transcontinental railroad. * The Auerbach brothers, who opened their first store in Salt Lake City in 1864 and who, by 1883 saw it become a mercantile enterprise worth half a million dollars in sales and real estate. * Simon Bamberger, who was elected governor in 1916--the first Democrat, first non-Mormon, and only Jew to hold the office. * Anna Rich Marks who made a fortune in real estate and mining and who at one point held the representatives of the Denver and Rio Grand Railroad at gunpoint--demanding they pay her price to cross her land. * Joel Shapiro, who, as a soldier during World War II, found himself in the detachment from his unit assigned to join the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. With their own voices, in their own words, A Homeland in the West speaks to the dichotomy of living as 'gentiles' in Mormon 'Zion,' testifying to the ways in which memory and tradition, lifestyles and legacies layer together to form the whole of a person, the whole of a community.
Author : Richard Douglas Poll
Publisher :
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :
This is the most comprehensive volume available on Utah's unique and varied history. From the earliest desert cultures to Utah society in the 1980s, this collection considers social, economic, political, and cultural aspects, some controversial, of the state's history.
Author : Utah State Historical Society
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN :
Contains histories of some of the minorities in Utah.
Author : Harriet Rochlin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780618001965
Contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.
Author : Leon Laizer Watters
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 1952
Category : B'nai Israel Cemetery (Salt Lake City, Utah).
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Gift of Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut.