Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History, 1849-1880Ava Fran Kahn Wayne State University Press, 2002 - 549 páginas A history of the founding of California's Jewish community during the Gold Rush. In 1848, news of the California Gold Rush swept the nation and the world. Aspiring miners, merchants, and entrepreneurs from all corners of the globe flooded California looking for gold. The cry of instant wealth was also heard and answered by Jewish communities in Europe and the eastern United States. While all Jewish immigrants arriving in the mid-nineteenth century were looking for religious freedoms and economic stability, there were preexisting Jewish social and religious structures on the East Coast. California's Jewish immigrants become founders of their own social, cultural, and religious institutions. Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush examines the life of California's Jewish community through letters, diaries, memoirs, court and news reports, and photographs, as well as institutional, synagogue, and organizational records. By gathering a wealth of primary source materials--both public and private documents--and placing them in proper historical context, Ava F. Kahn re-creates the lives within California's Jewish community. Kahn takes the reader from Europe to California, from the goldfields to the developing towns and their religious and business communities, and from the founding of Jewish communities to their maturing years--most notably the instant city of San Francisco. By providing exhaustive documentation, Kahn offers an intimate portrait of Jewish life at a critical period in the history of California and the nation. Scholars and students of Jewish history and immigration studies, and readers interested in Gold Rush history, will enjoy this look at the development of California's Jewish community. |
Contenido
List of Illustrations | 17 |
Acknowledgments | 25 |
Introduction | 35 |
Historical Overview | 51 |
EUROPE DISCOVERS CALIFORNIA | 57 |
THE WESTWARD JOURNEY | 101 |
Accompanying Her Husband to Gold Country | 134 |
By Union and Central Pacific to Perform a Wedding | 141 |
A Merchant of Poker Flat and Saint Louis | 319 |
A Miner in Spanish Hill and Placerville | 326 |
A Womans Life Cut Short | 335 |
Sonora Reports to the Board of Delegates | 342 |
Bnei Mitzvah in Placerville on the Jewish New Year | 349 |
Annual Elections on Yom Kippur Night in Jackson | 354 |
A Synagogue for Stockton | 361 |
The Sacramento Mohel | 369 |
JUDAISM TAKES ROOT | 147 |
The House Was Crowded the Gallery Solely with | 162 |
The Congregation vs The Rabbi | 170 |
A Man of the New School | 176 |
The Torah Be Read Entire | 185 |
A Caustic Observer | 192 |
A Prospectus | 212 |
Debating on the Second and Fourth Sunday | 220 |
To Protect the Poor and Fatherless | 226 |
The Terror of Death | 234 |
EARNING A LIVING | 245 |
The Commercial Position of the Jews | 255 |
From New York to | 264 |
The Alaska Seal Business | 278 |
FAMILY LIFE | 284 |
Sweet Child Rest in Peace | 290 |
Hats and Cows | 299 |
A Rabbis Daughter | 305 |
THE MINING TOWNS | 313 |
The OnePrice Store of David Lubin and Harris | 375 |
THE MYTHICAL JEW AND THE JEW NEXT DOOR | 381 |
The Most Expert Gold Dust Buyers | 387 |
Some of Our Best Citizens | 390 |
Israelite Over Ammonite in Sonora | 397 |
Reflections of a Polish Nobel Laureate | 403 |
Saturday Is the Sabbath of the Bible | 409 |
Kaddish for James King of William | 417 |
Abraham Lincoln the Twice Anointed High | 423 |
Toby Rosenthal ca 1865 | 429 |
Joshua Abraham Norton I an Emperor and | 447 |
A PART OF THE JEWISH WORLD | 461 |
The Accredited Messenger of My Brethren | 475 |
The Alliance Israélite Universelle | 484 |
Pioneers of the Pacific Coast | 490 |
Glossary | 503 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Referencias a este libro
Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California Frances Dinkelspiel Vista previa limitada - 2010 |