H170-JCL Instructors: Warburg Starting: 10/28/2010 Location: BJE Jewish Community Library
Sue and Felix Warburg will share their extensive research into the history and personalities of the Jewish pioneers who settled in Northern California in the 1840s and 1850s. Who were they, and what did they ...
H250-JCL Instructors: Dollinger Starting: 10/12/2010 Location: BJE Jewish Community Library
The discovery of gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas inspired a massive immigration to California and an exciting new chapter in American Jewish history. Unlike cities to the east, San Francisco offered its ...
A200-JCL Instructors: Stein Starting: 10/21/2010 Location: BJE Jewish Community Library
When he exited Nazi Germany in 1933, the young German Jewish artist John Gutmann was determined to remake his life anew. Instead of aiming to resettle like the rest of his family in New York, ...
H270-JCL Instructors: Krow-Local Starting: 12/12/2010 Location: BJE Jewish Community Library
This year marks the centennial of the first “yidish natsyonale shule” — National (ethnic) Jewish School — which opened for weekend instruction on December 10, 1910, on Madison Street in the heart of New York’s ...
P200-JCL Instructors: Fishkoff Starting: 12/09/2010 Location: BJE Jewish Community Library
Fishkoff offers a compelling overview of the phenomenon of kashrut and the kosher food industry in today’s world. She explains why 85 percent of the 11 million Americans who regularly buy kosher food are not ...
H150-JCL Instructors: Kahn Starting: 10/07/2010 Location: BJE Jewish Community Library
From the California Gold Rush of 1849 to the explosion of population centers in the Southwest in the 1980s, Jews have played a significant role in shaping the Pacific West. In the process, they have ...
H230-JCL Instructors: Gitlin Starting: 12/01/2010 Location: BJE Jewish Community Library
Gitlin and Leibovitz argue that what unites the United States and Israel as allies in a “special friendship” is less common strategic interests than the deep-seated belief that they were chosen by God. In Chosen ...
H200-JCL Instructors: Rosenbaum Starting: 11/18/2010 Location: BJE Jewish Community Library
San Francisco's largest and most vibrant Jewish neighborhood was dense with synagogues, schools, mutual aid societies, kosher butchers and restaurants, cultural centers, and much more from the earthquake to the mid-1960s and especially during the ...
T200-JCL Instructors: Seidman Starting: 10/14/2010 Location: BJE Jewish Community Library
How did modern Jewish literature modernize Jewish sexual practices, marital structures, and erotic experiences? Modernity brought with it a host of changes that included the transformations of gender roles and erotic practices, from arranged marriages ...
T250-JCL Instructors: Alter Starting: 10/19/2010 Location: BJE Jewish Community Library
Robert Alter’s translations of the Torah, the Psalms, and Samuel I and II have deepened the English reader’s encounter with the Hebrew Bible, offering tremendous insight into the Hebrew text and restoring the poetic voice ...