Cosmopolitans
Subtitle: a social and cultural history of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area
By: Fred Rosenbaum.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780520259133
Subjects: Jews -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History; San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Boomtown: tumult and triumph in gold rush San Francisco; title: 2. Woven into the fabric: the confident community of the gilded age; title: 3. Rooted cosmopolitans: the cultural creativity of the second generation; title: 4. "Can you make your boy do what you were made to do?" the challenges to Judaism at the turn of the Century; title: 5. Healing California: Jewish capitalists, reformers, and revolutionaries in the progressive era; title: 6. Trials: natural disaster and municipal corruption, urban terror and World War; title: 7. With a Yiddish accent: East European Jewish neighborhoods; title: 8. Good times: the Jewish elite between the wars; title: 9. Both sides of the barricades: Jews and class conflict during the Depression; title: 10. Cataclysms: responses to the Holocaust and Zionism.