Western Jewish Newspaper Collection

Western Jewish Newspaper Collection

Author: Western Jewish History Center

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Published: 1860

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The Western Jewish History Center has long collected copies of Jewish newspapers, and it has copies of Jewish newspapers from the earliest Jewish community newspapers to the present. Most of its newspapers come from the San Francisco Bay Area, but some of them come from other parts of California and other western states. The names of some of the newspapers it has collected are: the B'nai B'rith Messenger (Los Angeles); the California Jewish Press; the California Jewish Record; the California Jewish Review (Los Angeles); the California Jewish Voice (Los Angeles); Centerlines: The Newspaper of the Contra Costa Jewish Community Center; Central California Jewish Heritage (Fresno); The Centripetal (of the South Peninsula Jewish Community Center); Chabad Journal (Berkeley); Direction (of the University of Judaism); the East Bay Jewish Observer; the Emanu-El; the Emanu-El and the Jewish Journal; Ha-etgar: The Challenge; Hawaii Jewish News; The Hebrew (San Francisco); the Hebrew Observer; The Hebrew Times; The Heritage, Southwest Jewish Press; Intermountain Jewish News; Israel Today; The Jewish Bulletin; The Jewish Community Bulletin; The Jewish Community News (San Jose); The Jewish Community News of Silicon Valley; the Jewish Community Press (Los Angeles); the Jewish Courier; the Jewish Journal (San Francisco); the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles; the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix; the Jewish Observer of the East Bay; the Jewish Progress (San Francisco); the Jewish Radical; the Jewish Star; the Jewish Times and Observer; the Jewish Transcript (Seattle); the Jewish Tribune (Portland, Ore.); the Jewish Welfare Federation News; the Jewish Western Bulletin (Vancouver, Wash.?); Los Angeles Community Bulletin; Los Angeles Jewish Times; New Life (San Francisco); the Northerm California Jewish Bulletin; the Oakland Community Bulletin; the Oakland Menorah; Orange County Jewish Heritage; Pacific Jewish Press; Phoenix Jewish Times; Portland Jewish Review; the Reflex; the San Diego Jewish Times; the San Francisco Jewish Bulletin; the South Peninsula Jewish Press; the Southwest Jewish Press Heritage; and the Weekly Gleaner.


Stations West

Stations West

Author: Allison Amend

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2010-03-15

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0807137324

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Follows four generations of Haurowitzes, from 1859 when the first Jewish settler, Boggy, arrives in Oklahoma's forgotten territory. Intertwined with a family of Swedish immigrants, they struggle against betrayals, nature, and burgeoning statehood, to find their families utterly transformed.


The Jews’ Indian

The Jews’ Indian

Author: David S. Koffman

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2019-02-08

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 197880086X

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The Jews' Indian investigates the history of American Jewish relationships with Native Americans, both in the realm of cultural imagination and in face-to-face encounters. This book is the first history to analyze Jewish participation in, and Jews' grappling with the legacies of Native American history and the colonial project upon which America rests.


The First to Cry Down Injustice

The First to Cry Down Injustice

Author: Ellen Eisenberg

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780739113820

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Although American Jews had already embraced the principle of fighting prejudice in all forms, western Jews often did not apply it to specific local issues involving Japanese Americans during World War II. In The First to Cry Down Injustice?, Eisenberg analyzes the range of Jewish responses--including silence, opposition to, and support for the policy--to the mass removal of Japanese Americans as the product of a distinctive western ethnic landscape.


Double Threat

Double Threat

Author: Ellin Bessner

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2019-01-24

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 1487533624

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"He died so Jewry should suffer no more." These words on a Canadian Jewish soldier's tombstone in Normandy inspired the author to explore the role of Canadian Jews in the war effort. As PM Mackenzie King wrote in 1947, Jewish servicemen faced a "double threat" - they were not only fighting against Fascism but for Jewish survival. At the same time, they encountered widespread antisemitism and the danger of being identified as Jews if captured. Bessner conducted hundreds of interviews and extensive archival research to paint a complex picture of the 17,000 Canadian Jews - about 10 per cent of the Jewish population in wartime Canada - who chose to enlist, including future Cabinet minister Barney Danson, future game-show host Monty Hall, and comedians Wayne and Shuster. Added to this fascinating account are Jews who were among the so-called "Zombies" - Canadians who were drafted, but chose to serve at home - the various perspectives of the Jewish community, and the participation of Canadian Jewish women.


How I Stopped Being a Jew

How I Stopped Being a Jew

Author: Shlomo Sand

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2014-10-07

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1781686149

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Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a “secular Jew.” With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity. How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the “chosen people” myth and its “holocaust industry.” Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what “Jewish” means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism.


The Invention of the Land of Israel

The Invention of the Land of Israel

Author: Shlomo Sand

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2012-11-20

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1844679462

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What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. Sand’s account dissects the concept of “historical right” and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the “Land of Israel” by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists. This invention, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel; it is also threatening the existence of the Jewish state today.