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Ira Nowinski photographs of Northern California Jewish Life, 1983-1984.
BANC PIC 2012.031 box 1; BANC PIC 2012.031 box 2; BANC PIC 2012.031 oversize box 1; BANC PIC 2012.031 oversize box 2;
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Ira Nowinski photographs of Northern California Jewish Life, 1983-1984Creator/Contributor:
Nowinski, Ira., creatorCreator/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 LifeAbstract:
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 -- PhotographsBoxer, 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.)
Note:
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.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
Photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Type:
graphicPhysical Description:
2 boxes and 2 oversize boxes (2.4 linear feet)
Language:
English
Identifier:
2006585416
BANC PIC 2012.031 box 1
BANC PIC 2012.031 box 2
BANC PIC 2012.031 oversize box 1
BANC PIC 2012.031 oversize box 2
BANC PIC 2012.031
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.