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

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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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