The Petaluma Jewish community : oral history transcript, 1974.

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The Petaluma Jewish community : oral history transcript, 1974.

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Typed transcripts of tape-recorded interviews with David Soren, Morris and Pauline Brody, Riva Shapiro, and Joe Rapoport, five Jewish immigrants from Russia. Conducted by Kennith Kann and Zelda Bronstein for the Petaluma Jewish Community Oral History Project, Judah L. Magnes Museum. Interviews cover recollections of youth in Russia before emigration to U.S.; life in U.S. before settling in Petaluma; work as poultry farmers; social and cultural life of Petaluma Jewish community; comments on communism, socialism, Zionism. David Soren's interview also includes recollections of the Potemkin incident, work as a capmaker and trade union organizer. Joe Rapoport's interview also includes comments on work as a trade union organizer. Riva Shapiro's interview also includes recollections of San Francisco Jewish life. Morris Brody's interview also includes recollections of childhood on a stetl in the Ukraine, and as a prisoner of war in Germany, 1914-1919.

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