A reflection on the early years of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation
By: Samuel A. Ladar ; with an introduction by Earl Raab ; interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser in 1990.
Contributors: Weiner, Ernest H.; Raab, Earl.; Glaser, Eleanor.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project.
Published: 1990
Subjects: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.; Jews -- Charities.; Jews -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Ladar describes his childhood in the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Ayslum, San Francisco; labor law practice in firm of Jesse H. Steinhart; San Francisco Committee for Service to Emigres, late 1930s, and Survey Committee; Jewish National Welfare Fund director, 1947; Fund merger with Jewish Welfare Federation, 1955; Federation work and civic and Jewish community activities. Includes interview with Ernest H. Weiner, executive director, San Francisco Bay Area American Jewish Committee, and Earl Raab, executive director emeritus, Jewish Community Relations Council.