Wrestling with the angels
Subtitle: a history of Jewish Los Angeles
By: Phil Blazer, Shelley Portnoy.
Contributors: Portnoy, Shelley.
Publisher: Blazer Communications
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Sherman Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780978895105
Subjects: Jews -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations
Notes: "This is the first of a two-volume set ... This first volume covers the history of Jewish life in Greater Los Angeles from 1850 to the present."--P. i.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317) and index.

Donated by Phil Blazer, 11/2006.
Table of contents: title: Los Angeles before the arrival of the Jewish pioneers, 1781-1849; title: Birth of the Jewish community in Los Angeles, 1850-1859; title: Jewish presence in business and politics established in Los Angeles, 1860-1879; title: A golden land of sunshine and opportunity, 1880-1899; title: Turn of the century: a small village becomes a city, 1900-1916; title: World War I: rise of anti-semitism, the roaring twenties, and the Great Depression, 1917-1938; title: World War II: Jewish community and the world stunned by the Holocaust, 1939-1954; title: Transformation of the Los Angeles Jewish community, 1955-1970; title: Los Angeles Jewish community emerges in leadership, 1971-present; title: Jewish renaissance: the future of Jewish Los Angeles.