Title:

Ira Nowinski photographs of Northern California Jewish Life, 1983-1984

Creator/Contributor:

Nowinski, Ira., creator

Creator/Contributor:

Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Commission for the Preservation of Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries and Landmarks.

Creator/Contributor:

Western Jewish History Center, 224.

Creator/Contributor:

Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1968.036.

Creator/Contributor:

Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

The collection contains photographs of six pioneer Jewish cemeteries of the California Mother Lode that Nowinski took in 1984 under the auspices of the Judah L. Magnes Museum's Commission for the Preservation of Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries and Landmarks. The cemeteries are located in Jackson, Mokelumne Hill, Sonora, Placerville, Grass Valley, and Nevada City, California. The collection also includes 59 photographic contact sheets and 1930 photographic negatives of various California Jewish subjects that Nowinski photographed in 1983, including the Jewish Home for the Aged; Barbara Boxer; San Francisco Supervisor Quentin Kopp; Temple Emanu-El; a bar mitzvah rehearsal in Alameda; Seymour Fromer and the Judah L. Magnes Museum; the site of the former Bush Street Temple; Cissy Swig; Temple Beth Sholom in San Leandro; the staff of the Jewish Bulletin; Neil and Joel Folberg; a Soviet Jewry Movement street fair; Hanukkah in Union Square; the funeral of Rabbi Saul White; Yitzhak Sharon at a local Bay Area Jewish school; an anti-Israel rally; a Jewish National Fund Israeli Ballet reception; and the artist Harold Paris at work. There are also 48 photographic contact sheets and 1638 photographic negatives of images that Nowinski took of San Francisco's Jewish Family and Children's Services in 1984. The collection includes one photograph taken in 1984 by Nowinski of sculptor George Segal's Holocaust Memorial at San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum.

Date:

1983 (issued)

Subject:

Nowinski, Ira -- Photographs

Boxer, Barbara

White, Saul Elchanan -- 1907-1983

Kopp, Quentin Lewis -- 1928-

Swig, Cissy

Sharon, Yitzhak

Paris, Harold -- 1925-1979

Segal, George

Jewish Family and Children's Services (San Francisco, Calif.)

Congregation Beth Sholom (San Leandro, Calif.)

Judah L. Magnes Museum.

Congregation Emanu-El (San Francisco, Calif.)

Jewish Home for the Aged (San Francisco, Calif.)

Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Photographs

Historic preservation -- California -- Photographs

Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- California -- Photographs

Jewish cemeteries -- California -- Photographs

Jews -- California

Jews -- California -- San Francisco

Photographers -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area

Jackson (Calif.)

Mokelumne Hill (Calif.)

Sonora (Calif.)

Grass Valley (Calif.)

Nevada City (Calif.)

Placerville (Calif.)

Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 224.

Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1968.036.

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.

Ira Nowinski photographs of Northern California Jewish Life, BANC PIC 2012.031, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Type:

graphic

2 boxes and 2 oversize boxes (2.4 linear feet)

English

2006585416

Origin:

California

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.