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Western Jewish History Center Collection on the San Francisco Jews of Eastern European Origin, 1880-1940 Oral History Project
records, 1902-1979.
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Western Jewish History Center Collection on the San Francisco Jews of Eastern European Origin, 1880-1940 Oral History Project records, 1902-1979Creator/Contributor:
Western Jewish History Center, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Kagel, David, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Daughters of the American RevolutionCreator/Contributor:
Central Hebrew School (San Francisco, Calif.)Creator/Contributor:
Yiddishe Folk Shule (San Francisco, Calif.)Creator/Contributor:
Western Jewish History Center, 250.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, 1976.006.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeAbstract:
The collection contains the indexes for the oral histories, as well as biographical information for those people preliminarily
interviewed for the project: Celia Yerusalimski Alperth; Bassya Maltzer Bibel; Philip Bibel; Eugene Block; Lilan Friedman
Cherney; Zena Sheinkman Druckman; Rose Hartman Ets Hokin; Daniel Goldberg; Marshall Kuhn; Jean Greenberg Braverman Lapove;
Jesse Levin; Art Rosenbaum; Ida Block Smith; Vivian Dudune Solomon; Fay Landau Sternberger Avrech; Ida Kramer Barber; Israel
Joe Blum; Louis Cherin; Samuel Ciznet; Mervin Coleman; Estelle Meyerson Dolgin; George Edelstein; Louis J. Freehof; Edward
Gershanov; Eva Coleman Gross; Frema Zipkin Henderson; Ben Silberstein; and Ida Rosenbaum Silverberg. Also contains interviewers'
notes and pre-project interviews that were conducted by David Kagel with: Dr. Abraham Bernstein; Eugene Block; Ben Blumenthal;
Bertha Handin; Fannie Heppner; Sam Hirsch; Al Karp; Samuel Kohs; Daniel Koshland; and Sol Silverman. Also includes some records
of those organizations and individuals who helped resettle immigrants from the East to the West Coast and of the conditions
under which immigrants were received or rejected. It also has articles about the Fillmore-McAllister district of San Francisco;
correspondence with Jerry Flamm, the author of Good Life in Hard Times, about the "old days" in the Fillmore-McAllister and
Flamm's handwritten notes; and the notes created while Steven A. Leibo was writing his article, Out the Road: a Narrative
of the San Bruno Avenue Jewish Community of San Francisco, 1901-1968. In addition, the collection contains: a copy of A Family
Migration, a family memoir and genealogy created by Abraham Joseph Block, the son of Rabbi Morris Block of the San Bruno Avenue
District.
Date:
1902 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caImmigrants -- United States
Jews, East European -- California -- San Francisco
Jews -- Population
Jews -- California -- Oakland -- Statistics
Jews -- California -- San Francisco -- Statistics
Jews -- California -- San Francisco -- Social life and customs
Jewish women -- California -- San Francisco -- Social life and customs
San Francisco Earthquake, California, 1906
Synagogues -- California -- San Francisco
Juifs est-européens -- Californie -- San Francisco
Juifs -- Population
Juifs -- Californie -- Oakland -- Statistiques
Juifs -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Statistiques
Juifs -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Mœurs et coutumes
Juives -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Mœurs et coutumes
Death and burial of a person
Immigrants
Jewish women -- Social life and customs
Jews
Jews, East European
Jews -- Population
Jews -- Social life and customs
Synagogues
Fillmore (San Francisco, Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Genealogy
California
California -- Oakland
California -- San Francisco
California -- San Francisco -- Fillmore
United States
Western Jewish History Center -- Archives
Eureka Benevolent Society (San Francisco, Calif.)
Hebrew Board of Relief (San Francisco, Calif.)
Hebrew Free Loan Association (San Francisco, Calif.)
Industrial Removal Office (U.S.)
Jewish Relief Federation of Alameda County.
Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco -- Photographs
Eureka Benevolent Society (San Francisco, Calif.)
Hebrew Free Loan Association (San Francisco, Calif.)
Industrial Removal Office (U.S.)
Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco
Jewish Relief Federation of Alameda County
Western Jewish History Center
Bibel, Bassya
Bibel, Philip -- 1909-2006
Block, Eugene B
Flamm, Jerry -- Correspondence
Kohs, S. C. (Samuel Calmin) -- 1890-1984
Kuhn, Marshall
Leibo, Steven A -- 1950-
Sugarman, Abraham -- -1929 -- Death and burial
Block family
Bibel, Bassya
Bibel, Philip -- 1909-2006
Block, Eugene B
Block family
Flamm, Jerry
Kohs, S. C. (Samuel Calmin) -- 1890-1984
Kuhn, Marshall
Note:
Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 250.
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1976.006.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
San Francisco Jews of Eastern European Origin, 1880-1940 was an oral history project conducted from 1976 to 1978 by the Western
Jewish History Center and the American Jewish Congress. Its goal was to provide information about the experiences of Eastern
European Jewish immigrants to the U.S. and about their interaction with other groups in the context of the times. The project
emphasized the south of Market Street district in San Francisco, where many of the immigrants first settled, and the city's
Fillmore-McAllister and San Bruno Avenue districts, where many immigrants from Eastern Europe moved after the destruction
of their homes and institutions following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Among the themes explored were: religious,
social, and cultural values; women's roles; the impact of the immigrants on existing institutions and the formation of new
organizations that were created to meet the immigrants' new needs; labor history; and political ideologies.
Preferred citation: Western Jewish History Center Collection on the San Francisco Jews of Eastern European Origin, 1880-1940
Oral History Project records, BANC MSS 2010/773, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Materials in English, Russian, and Yiddish.
Type:
Genealogies.memoirs.
photographs.
interviews.
Archives
Biographies
Genealogy
Interviews
Photographs
Personal correspondence
Statistics
Interviews.
Photographs.
Photographies.
Interviews.
Physical Description:
6 boxes (2.2 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Russian
yid
Identifier:
2006585297
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.