Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Jewish historians
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Jewish historians
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 26,49 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Jewish historians
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Author : Harriet Rochlin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780618001965
Contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.
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Page : 874 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Jews
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Author : Donald H. Harrison
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780932653680
Louis Rose, an Old World immigrant, came to San Diego in 1850 and was one of the key figures who helped to shape the region. This comprehensive biography addresses not only the founding of Jewish institutions in San Diego, but how Rose helped to develop secular institutions as well.
Author : Ava Fran Kahn
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814328590
In 1848, news of the California Gold Rush swept the nation and the world. Aspiring miners, merchants, and entrepreneurs from all corners of the globe flooded California looking for gold. The cry of instant wealth was also heard and answered by Jewish communities in Europe and the eastern United States. While all Jewish immigrants arriving in the mid-nineteenth century were looking for religious freedoms and economic stability, there were preexisting Jewish social and religious structures on the East Coast. California's Jewish immigrants become founders of their own social, cultural, and religious institutions. Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush examines the life of California's Jewish community through letters, diaries, memoirs, court and news reports, and photographs, as well as institutional, synagogue, and organizational records. By gathering a wealth of primary source materials-both public and private documents-and placing them in proper historical context, Ava F. Kahn re-creates the lives within California's Jewish community. Kahn takes the reader from Europe to California, from the goldfields to the developing towns and their religious and business communities, and from the founding of Jewish communities to their maturing years-most notably the instant city of San Francisco. By providing exhaustive documentation, Kahn offers an intimate portrait of Jewish life at a critical period in the history of California and the nation. Scholars and students of Jewish history and immigration studies, and readers interested in Gold Rush history, will enjoy this look at the development of California's Jewish community.
Author : Jeanne E Abrams
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 2006-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0814707270
Jeanne E. Abrams “has written a sweeping, challenging, and provocative history of Jewish women in the American West . . . a pathbreaking work.”* The image of the West looms large in the American imagination. Yet the history of American Jewry and particularly of American Jewish women—has been heavily weighted toward the East. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trailrectifies this omission as the first full book to trace the history and contributions of Jewish women in the American West. In many ways, the Jewish experience in the West was distinct. Given the still-forming social landscape, beginning with the 1848 Gold Rush, Jews were able to integrate more fully into local communities than they had in the East. Jewish women in the West took advantage of the unsettled nature of the region to “open new doors” for themselves in the public sphere in ways often not yet possible elsewhere in the country. Women were crucial to the survival of early communities, making distinct contributions not only in shaping Jewish communal life but outside the Jewish community as well. Western Jewish women's level of involvement at the vanguard of social welfare and progressive reform, commerce, politics, and higher education and the professions is striking given their relatively small numbers. This engaging work—full of stories from the memoirs and records of Jewish pioneer women—illuminates the pivotal role they played in settling America's Western frontier. “Fast and engrossing. As a piece of scholarly writing it should be required reading in any course on the American West that seeks to broaden the definition of what it means to be a Westerner.” —*Colorado Book Review Center
Author : David S. Koffman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1978800886
Winner of the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize The Jews’ Indian investigates the history of American Jewish relationships with Native Americans, both in the realm of cultural imagination and in face-to-face encounters. These two groups’ exchanges were numerous and diverse, proving at times harmonious when Jews’ and Natives people’s economic and social interests aligned, but discordant and fraught at other times. American Jews could be as exploitative of Native cultural, social, and political issues as other American settlers, and historian David Koffman argues that these interactions both unsettle and historicize the often triumphant consensus history of American Jewish life. Focusing on the ways Jewish class mobility and civic belonging were wrapped up in the dynamics of power and myth making that so severely impacted Native Americans, this books is provocative and timely, the first history to critically analyze Jewish participation in, and Jews’ grappling with the legacies of Native American history and the colonial project upon which America rests.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Page : 1612 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Copyright
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Page : 1482 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Medicine
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