Robert Levinson papers, 1880-1979 1962-1979.

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Robert Levinson papers, 1880-1979 1962-1979.

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The collection consists of Robert Levinson's correspondence and files, drafts, and a card file relating to his dissertation on Jews and the California Gold Rush. The correspondence includes personal correspondence, professional correspondence (on writings, conferences, and general academic matters), research correspondence, correspondence relating to Levinson's work with the Commission for the Preservation of Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries and Landmarks, genealogy and family history correspondence, correspondence with historical societies, museums and other Jewish heritage organizations, and correspondence from Levinson's cantorial and rabbinical work. The research correspondence, which dates circa between 1962 and 1979, is particularly rich with information about the Jews of California and the western United States during the Gold Rush. Among the dissertation materials in the collection are research files on a range of Gold Rush era subjects, towns, and families; drafts of Levinson's thesis; and a card file that consists of Levinson's attempt to index Mother Lode newspapers from circa 1850 through 1880 for Jewish content. Newspapers indexed include those from the following California towns: Angels, Columbia, Downieville, Grass Valley, Jackson, Mammoth Tree Grove, Mariposa, Mokelumne Hill, Nevada City, Placerville, San Andreas, San Francisco (for content relating to Jews in the Mother Lode counties), Sonora, Sutter Creek, and Volcano.

9 cartons, 1 box, and 3 cardfile boxes (9.8 linear feet)

Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library

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Bancroft Library. Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.

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Judah L. Magnes Museum

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Online Archive of California

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Levinson, Robert E., 1938-1980

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Robert Levinson was an historian, educator, and author who specialized in the history of Jews in the western United States. His doctoral dissertation, "The Jews in the California Gold Rush", was published in 1978 and it remains the major work about the history of the Jews during the California Gold Rush. Levinson was a professor of history (1967-1980) and the director of the Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History (1973-1976) at California's San Jose State University. He played a leading ...

Western Jewish History Center

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The Western Jewish History Center (WJHC), a research center based around a library and large archive, was founded in 1967. It is part of the Judah L. Magnes Museum, located in Berkeley, Calif. Its mission is to collect and preserve materials documenting the history of the Jewish community in the western United States. To that end, it has collected a large number of organizational records; personal papers and correspondence; audiotapes; and photographs, graphic art, and motion picture films. It h...

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The Commission for the Preservation of Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries and Landmarks was formed in 1962 to assist in the preservation of pioneer Jewish cemeteries located in the California Mother Lode. It currently holds title to six pioneer Jewish cemeteries at Jackson, Mokelumne Hill, Sonora, Grass Valley, Nevada City, and Placerville, Calififornia, marking the Gold Rush era beginning of Jewish settlement in northern California. Following tradition, the Jewish pioneers first communal activity was to...