Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area
Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area
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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, this book 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 much more. Focusing in rich detail on the first hundred years after the Gold Rush, the book also takes the story up to the present day, demonstrating how unusually strong affinities for the arts and for the struggle for social justice have characterized this community even as it has changed over time. This book, set in the uncommonly diverse Bay Area, is a truly unique chapter of the Jewish experience in America.
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Front Matter
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Boomtown: Tumult and Triumph in Gold Rush San Francisco
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Woven into the Fabric: The Confident Community of the Gilded Age
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Rooted Cosmopolitans: The Cultural Creativity of the Second Generation
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Eden on the Pacific: The Challenges to Judaism at the Turn of the Century
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Healing California: Jewish Reformers and Revolutionaries in the Progressive Era
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Trials: Firestorms and Corruption, Terrorism and World War
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With a Yiddish Accent: East European Jewish Neighborhoods
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Good Times: The Jewish Elite between the Wars
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Both Sides of the Barricades: Jews and Class Conflict during the Depression
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Cataclysms: Responses to the Holocaust and Zionism
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Epilogue: Legacies of the First Century
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End Matter
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