ISBN:
9780520945029
,
0520945026
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xviii, 439 p., [32] p. of plates)
,
ill., ports.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rosenbaum, Fred Cosmopolitans
DDC:
305.8992407946
Keywords:
Jews History
;
California
;
San Francisco Bay Area
;
Jews History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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RELIGION ; Judaism ; General
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Ethnic relations
;
Jews
;
History
;
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) Ethnic relations
;
California
;
San Francisco Bay Area
;
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) Ethnic relations
;
California ; San Francisco Bay Area
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-414) and index. - Description based on print version record
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