Cosmopolitans : a social and cultural history of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area /

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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, wo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosenbaum, Fred
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Colección:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Temas:
Jews > California > San Francisco Bay Area > History.
Juifs > Californie > San Francisco, Région de la baie de > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
Ethnic relations.
Jews.
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) > Ethnic relations.
California > San Francisco Bay Area.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xviii, 439 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-414) and index.
ISBN:9780520945029
0520945026

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