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Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area
Fred Rosenbaum
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Description for Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area
Paperback. Told through a range of characters and events, this title illuminates many aspects of Jewish life in the area: the high profile of Jewish women, extraordinary achievements in the business world, the cultural creativity of the second generation, the bitter debate about the proper response to the Holocaust and Zionism, and more. Num Pages: 464 pages, 38 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 692.
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, extraordinary achievements in the business world, the ... Read more
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, extraordinary achievements in the business world, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520271302
SKU
V9780520271302
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About Fred Rosenbaum
Fred Rosenbaum is the Founding Director of Lehrhaus Judaica, the largest school for adult Jewish education in the American West, and the author of Visions of Reform: Congregation Emanu-El and the jews of San Francisco, among other books. He has also taught modern Jewish history at the Graduate Theological Union, the University of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University. ... Read more
Reviews for Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area
"Will significantly enhance our knowledge of Jews in the Bay Area, especially their uniqueness among America's Jewry." American Jewish History "An absorbing and colorfully detailed story of a minority's outsized impact on its society." Publishers Weekly "Excellent and thorough."
Dr. Morton I. Teicher The Buffalo Jewish Review "Excellent and thorough narrative."
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Dr. Morton I. Teicher The Buffalo Jewish Review "Excellent and thorough narrative."
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