Cosmopolitans : A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area / Fred Rosenbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenbaum, Fred, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History.

Jews.

San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.

San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (493 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

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, 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. Cosmopolitans, set in the uncommonly diverse Bay Area, is a truly unique chapter of the Jewish experience in America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface and aknowledgments

1. Boomtown: Tumult and Triumph in Gold Rush San Francisco

2. Woven into the Fabric: The Confident Community of the Gilded Age

3. Rooted Cosmopolitans: The Cultural Creativity of the Second Generation

4. Eden on the Pacific: The Challenges to Judaism at the Turn of the Century

5. Healing California: Jewish Reformers and Revolutionaries in the Progressive Era

6. Trials: Firestorms and Corruption, Terrorism and World War

7. With a Yiddish Accent: East Europe an Jewish Neighborhoods

8. Good Times: The Jewish Elite between the Wars

9. Both Sides of the Barricades: Jews and Class Conflict during the Depression

10. Cataclysms: Responses to the Holocaust and Zionism

Epilogue: Legacies of the First Century

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612359996

9781282359994

1282359991

9780520945029

0520945026

OCLC:

593216362