A Jewish Presence in the California Gold Country 1850-onward
Title | A Jewish Presence in the California Gold Country 1850-onward PDF eBook |
Author | Abraham Kep Freedman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Cemeteries |
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Jewish Gold Country
Title | Jewish Gold Country PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan L. Friedmann |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2020-03-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467104817 |
The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma on January 24, 1848, initiated one of the largest migrations in US history. Between 1849 and 1855, hundreds of thousands of migrants arrived in Northern California hoping to find gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The rapid population growth and economic prosperity led to boomtowns, banks, and railroads, making California eligible for statehood in 1850. An international cast of gold-seekers, merchants, and tradespeople arrived by land and through the port of San Francisco, which was transformed from a small village to a cosmopolitan metropolis. Jewish pioneers, many of whom had been merchants in Europe, opened stores and businesses in small towns and mining camps in and around the Mother Lode. They established benevolent societies and cemeteries, founded synagogues and companies, held public office and positions of influence, and contributed greatly to the multicultural fabric of the Gold Country.
Jews in Nevada
Title | Jews in Nevada PDF eBook |
Author | John P. Marschall |
Publisher | University of Nevada Press |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 2011-03-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0874177480 |
Jews have always been one of Nevada’s most active and influential ethnic minorities. They were among the state’s earliest Euro-American settlers, and from the beginning they have been involved in every area of the state’s life as businessmen, agrarians, scholars, educators, artists, politicians, and civic, professional, and religious leaders. Jews in Nevada is an engaging, multilayered chronicle of their lives and contributions to the state. Here are absorbing accounts of individuals and families who helped to settle and develop the state, as well as thoughtful analyses of larger issues, such as the reasons Jews came to Nevada in the first place, how they created homes and interacted with non-Jews, and how they preserved their religious and cultural traditions as a small minority in a sparsely populated region.
The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 4
Title | The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 4 PDF eBook |
Author | Léon Poliakov |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2003-10-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780812218664 |
"Highly recommended without exception."--
Gold Rush Stories
Title | Gold Rush Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Noy |
Publisher | Heyday.ORIM |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2017-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1597143855 |
From the author of Hellacious California!, deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, full of brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity. In less than ten years, more than 300,000 people made the journey to California, some from as far away as Chile and China. Many of them were dreamers seeking a better life, like Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, who eventually became the first African American judge, and Eliza Farnham, an early feminist who founded California's first association to advocate for women's civil rights. Still others were eccentrics—perhaps none more so than San Francisco's self-styled king, Norton I, Emperor of the United States. As Gold Rush Stories relates the social tumult of the world rushing in, so too does it unearth the environmental consequences of the influx, including the destructive flood of yellow ooze (known as “slickens”) produced by the widespread and relentless practice of hydraulic mining. In the hands of a native son of the Sierra, these stories and dozens more reveal the surprising and untold complexities of the Gold Rush. “Seamlessly fuses academic rigor, original reporting and emotional intensity into one meditation on an era.... If the task of the historian is to be faithful to lost truths, then Noy's latest exploration succeeds on every level, and does so in a way that will keep readers wanting to dig deeper into the past.”—Scott Thomas Anderson, Sierra Lodestar “An original and lively look at all the usual suspects, plus bears, weather, women, Joaquín, disappointment and dissipation…. Exhaustively researched and highly entertaining.”—JoAnn Levy, author of They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush
The History of Anti-Semitism: Suicidal Europe, 1870-1933
Title | The History of Anti-Semitism: Suicidal Europe, 1870-1933 PDF eBook |
Author | Léon Poliakov |
Publisher | |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Antisemitism |
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America, History and Life
Title | America, History and Life PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1080 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Canada |
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Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.