Updated March 31
How did you or your family come to call the Bay Area home?
Perhaps you come from a multi-generation San Francisco family. Maybe you showed up in the East Bay or North Bay for the Summer of Love and never left. Perchance you are a recent arrival in Silicon Valley.
J. has been serving the Bay Area Jewish community since 1895. In celebration of our 130-year-old archive, we are launching an audio-history project to preserve individual histories in our region. We want to hear your story.
If you’re interested in participating in the project, call us at 415-263-7200 ext. 953 by April 15 and tell us how you or your family became a Bay Area resident..
In the message, be sure to include your full name and how you or your family came to call the Bay Area home. Because we are organizing the project in chronological order, we ask you to include important years in that story. (A ballpark estimate is fine.)
J. kicked off this project at our “History is Calling!” event on March 22 at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art in Berkeley, where we marked the 130th anniversary of our publication and archive, which is online.
Even though your message will be recorded via voicemail, just know we’re all ears. We’re looking forward to hearing from you. Again, please call us at 415-263-7200 ext. 953 by April 15.
Thank you for preserving a slice of Bay Area Jewish history.