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Fred Rosenbaum

Fred Rosenbaum is the founding director of the former Lehrhaus Judaica and the author of “Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area” (University of California Press, 2009), among other books about local Jewish history. 

A protest on behalf of Soviet Jewry in front of the Soviet consulate in San Francisco captured in the Jewish Bulletin.
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J.’s digitized archives are a window into the unique ethos of Bay Area Jews

headshot of Fred Rosenbaum by Fred Rosenbaum February 16, 2022February 16, 2022

Digitizing the entire 127-year run of J., a long-term project requiring skill and dedication, is paramount in preserving the history of our community. No other primary source captures the full […]

President Andrzej Duda of Poland speaks to the media in front of remains of the Berlin Wall, Nov. 9, 2019. (Photo/JTA-John Macdougall-AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump’s stamp of approval helped re-elect Poland’s bigoted president

headshot of Fred Rosenbaum by Fred Rosenbaum July 17, 2020
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Rabbi Saul White pierced armor of S.F.’s assimilationist mentality

headshot of Fred Rosenbaum by Fred Rosenbaum December 22, 2003May 4, 2017

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