Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 439 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
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S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-414) and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Jews -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History.
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Jews. |
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California -- San Francisco Bay Area. |
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History. |
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San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Rosenbaum, Fred. Cosmopolitans. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009 9780520259133 (DLC) 2008047129 (OCoLC)265094628 |
ISBN |
9780520945029 (electronic book) |
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0520945026 (electronic book) |
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9780520259133 |
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0520259130 |
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1282359991 |
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9781282359994 |
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