Cosmopolitans : a social and cultural history of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area / by Rosenbaum, Fred

Table of Contents: “…Boomtown : tumult and triumph in Gold Rush San Francisco -- Woven into the fabric : the confident community of the Gilded Age -- Rooted cosmopolitans : the cultural creativity of the second generation -- Eden of the Pacific : the challenges to Judaism at the turn of the century -- Healing California : Jewish reformers and revolutionaries in the progressive era -- Trials : firestorms and corruption, terrorism and world war -- With a Yiddish accent : East European Jewish neighborhoods -- Good times : the Jewish elite between the wars -- Both sides of the barricades : Jews and class conflict during the Depression -- Cataclysms : responses to the Holocaust and Zionism.…”

Cosmopolitans : a social and cultural history of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area / by Rosenbaum, Fred

Table of Contents: “…Boomtown : tumult and triumph in Gold Rush San Francisco -- Woven into the fabric : the confident community of the Gilded Age -- Rooted cosmopolitans : the cultural creativity of the second generation -- Eden of the Pacific : the challenges to Judaism at the turn of the century -- Healing California : Jewish reformers and revolutionaries in the progressive era -- Trials : firestorms and corruption, terrorism and world war -- With a Yiddish accent : East European Jewish neighborhoods -- Good times : the Jewish elite between the wars -- Both sides of the barricades : Jews and class conflict during the Depression -- Cataclysms : responses to the Holocaust and Zionism.…”
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Racial fault lines : the historical origins of white supremacy in California / by Almaguer, Tomás

Table of Contents: “…White civilization's crusade against the "devils of the forest" -- "Before the march of civilization he must give way" -- "Unfit and incapable of being associated with whites on any terms of equality" -- pt. 3. Racialized class conflict and Asian immigrants in Anglo California -- "They can be hired in masses; they can be managed and controlled like unthinking slaves" -- "In the hands of people whose experience has been only to obey a master rather than think and manage for themselves."…”
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