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Fanny Jaffe Sharlip memoirs, 1947.
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Title:
Fanny Jaffe Sharlip memoirs, 1947Creator/Contributor:
Sharlip, Fanny Jaffe., creatorCreator/Contributor:
Western Jewish History Center, 255.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1978.013.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeCreator/Contributor:
Online Archive of CaliforniaAbstract:
The collection consists of handwritten notebooks and a typescript of "My Memoirs" that describe her early family life in Russia,
interactions between Jews and gentiles, immigration to the U.S., settlement and family life in California, and her reaction
to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The memoir also provides her impressions of radical labor leaders Emma Goldman
and Job Harriman and descriptions of her lifelong work in social service and with individuals stricken with tuberculosis.
Date:
1947 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us--- -- e-ur---Jews, Russian -- California -- Los Angeles
Jewish radicals -- United States
Jewish women -- California -- Los Angeles
Jewish women -- Family relationships -- California -- Los Angeles
Labor leaders -- United States
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
Tuberculosis -- Patients -- California -- Los Angeles
Women in charitable work -- California -- Los Angeles
Women labor leaders -- United States
Juifs russes -- Californie -- Los Angeles
Radicaux juifs -- États-Unis
Juives -- Californie -- Los Angeles
Juives -- Relations familiales -- Californie -- Los Angeles
Dirigeants syndicaux -- États-Unis
Tremblement de terre de San Francisco, Calif., 1906
Tuberculeux -- Californie -- Los Angeles
Femmes dans les œuvres de bienfaisance -- Californie -- Los Angeles
Dirigeantes syndicales -- États-Unis
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Jewish radicals
Jewish women
Jews, Russian
Labor leaders
Tuberculosis -- Patients
Women in charitable work
Women labor leaders
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Russia -- Ethnic relations
United States -- Emigration and immigration
États-Unis -- Émigration et immigration
California
California -- Los Angeles
Russia
United States
Sharlip, Fanny Jaffe -- Archives
Goldman, Emma -- 1869-1940
Harriman, Job -- 1861-1925
Goldman, Emma -- 1869-1940
Harriman, Job -- 1861-1925
Note:
Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 255.
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1978.013.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
Fanny Jaffe came from a small town in Russia and, in 1889, immigrated to the U.S. After she worked in a clothing factory in
Philadelphia, she married Ben Sharlip, the brother of her best friend, and moved to Los Angeles where they opened a small
corner grocery.
Preferred citation: Fanny Jaffe Sharlip memoirs, BANC MSS 2010/707, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Materials in English.
Type:
memoirs.notebooks.
typescripts.
Notebooks
Archives
Notebooks.
Cahiers.
Physical Description:
print
1 box (.4 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
2006585518
http://magnes.org/scholars/research-information/research-request-form
http://magnesalm.org/notebook_fext.asp?site=magnes&book=156731
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.