"San Francisco Jews of Eastern European Origin, 1880-1940" collection, 1880-1973.

Levin, Jesse

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Gross, Eva Coleman.

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Gershanov, Edward.

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Freehof, Louis J.

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Kuhn, Marshall

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Educator, health worker, historian, and conservationist. He was also known for his leadership and service in and for the Jewish community. Committed to safeguarding the environment, he helped ensure the preservation of Sierra Club documents housed in the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley; won the John Muir Memorial Association conservation award; and served as the treasurer of the Strybing Arboretum Society in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. In addition, he was also ...

Alperth, Celia Yerusalimski.

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Barber, Ida Kramer.

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Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum

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Founded in 1962, and initially located in Oakland, California, the Judah L. Magnes Museum was the first Jewish museum founded in the western United States. In 1966, Museum supporters helped purchase and then relocate the Museum in the Jeremiah Thaddeus Burke mansion, in Berkeley, which was later declared a historic landmark. The Museum contains a large permanent collection of Jewish ceremonial, graphic, and fine art and an extensive one of Jewish textiles and clothing. It also hosts two librarie...

Coleman, Mervin D.

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Block family.

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Solomon, Vivian Dudune.

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Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco

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Performs songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, and Russian; origins rooted in the labor movement. From the description of Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco records, 1937-2006. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 229170071 ...

Kagel, David

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Heppner, Fannie.

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Sugarman, Abraham, -1929

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Mehrenbach, Nathan.

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Yiddishe Folk Shule (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Edelstein, George, 1917-2009

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Ciznet, Samuel.

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Hebrew Board of Relief (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Block, Eugene B.

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Death penalty abolitionist. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1959. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 235045396 ...

Jewish Relief Federation of Alameda County

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Cherin, Louis.

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Karp, Ali

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Bibel, Philip, 1909-2006

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Flamm, Jerry

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Silberstein, Ben.

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Hokin, Rose Hartman, etc.

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Industrial Removal Office (U.S.)

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Central Hebrew School (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Cherney, Lilan Friedman.

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Blum, Israel Joe.

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Leibo, Steven A., 1950-

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Daughters of the American Revolution.

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D. A. R. chapters from Washington, DC and surrounding areas. From the description of Papers, 1948-1949. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36009706 ...

Kohs, S. C. (Samuel Calmin), 1890-1984

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A noted psychologist and social worker, Samuel Kohs was born in New York City. From 1918 to 1922, he was a professor at Reed College, in Portland, Or., and at the University of Oregon. During this time, he was also a psychologist for the Portland Court of Domestic Relations. After he left Portland, from 1924 to 1926, Kohs was the executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federation in California's Alameda County. In 1925, he founded the Oakland Placement and Guidance Service. After he left the Je...

Children's Synagogue

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Handin, Bertha.

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Bibel, Bassya

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Druckman, Zena Sheinkman.

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Avrech, Fay Landau Sternberger.

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Block, Abraham J. (Abraham Joseph), 1893-1993

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Henderson, Frema Zipkin.

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Dolgin, Estelle Meyerson.

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Hirsch, Sam.

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Lapove, Jean Greenberg Braverman.

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Eureka Benevolent Society (San Francisco, Calif.)

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The Eureka Benevolent Association, one of San Francisco's earliest philanthropic organizations, was formed in 1850 "[to] afford aid and relief to indigent, sick, and infirm Jews; to bury the dead; and in general to relieve and aid co-religionists who might be in poverty or distress." In 1907, the organization changed its name to the Eureka Benevolent Society (EBS). As the city's Jewish population grew in numbers and diversity, the EBS was joined by other social service agencies that broadened th...

Silverberg, Ida Rosenbaum.

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Hebrew Free Loan Association (San Francisco, Calif.)

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In 1897, San Francisco's Hebrew Free Loan Association (HFLA) was organized to make interest free loans. In 1910, it turned over its membership of nearly 1,000 people to the newly formed Federation of Jewish Charities. Before the Great Depression, many applications were received from Eastern European emigrants. During the Great Depression, Eastern European immigrants, many of whom were farmers in Petaluma and Sebastopol, Calif., were aided by the HFLA, the Jewish Agricultural Society, and the Abr...