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Author Emma Wolf's novel "Heirs of Yesterday" is in print once more with a new edition.
Posted inCulture

Early S.F. author Emma Wolf, ‘mother of American Jewish fiction,’ gets a new reprint 120 years later

by Liz Harris February 28, 2021February 28, 2021
Journalist Dave Pell (second from right) with his late father Joseph Pell (center) and their family. 
Posted inNews

Families of Holocaust survivors see historical parallels in the news

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 25, 2021January 26, 2021
Congregation Beth Israel's second building, on Geary Boulevard, was completed in 1908. It was almost completed in 1906, but was destroyed by the earthquake and had to be rebuilt. In 1969, Beth Israel merged with Temple Judea to form Congregation Beth Israel Judea. Decades later, BIJ is merging with yet another synagogue, Congregation B'nai Emunah. (Photo/Courtesy Congregation Beth Israel Judea)
Posted inNews

Mazel tov — it’s a merger! Two historic San Francisco synagogues become one

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 16, 2020December 16, 2020
Rachel Brahinsky is co-author of "A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area."
Posted inCulture

Going ‘beneath the sidewalk’ to reveal the Bay Area’s untold history

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 14, 2020October 15, 2020
Bill Brostoff at the Jewish cemetery in Trzcianne, Poland.
Posted inHistory

One Berkeley man’s quest to save Poland’s Jewish cemeteries

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 26, 2020August 26, 2020
The covers of “The Lives of Isaac Stern” and “Life Isn't Everything: Mike Nichols, As Remembered by 150 of His Closest Friends,” both of which feature pensive black and white photos of their subjects
Posted inOff the Shelf

New biographies paint portraits of two Jewish luminaries (one with S.F. ties)

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 9, 2020July 9, 2020
A Judensau sculpture on display on the outer wall of the town church of St. Marien in Wittenberg, Germany, Feb. 4, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Hendrik Schmidt-Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

In Germany, several churches have anti-Semitic sculptures from the Middle Ages. Can one man get them taken down?

by Toby Axelrod and JTA June 24, 2020June 24, 2020
Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of State of the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (1955). (Photo/JTA-The Print Collector-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Why Burlingame synagogue covered up name of Confederate Jewish official in window

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA June 18, 2020June 19, 2020
From the cover of “House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family” by Hadley Freeman
Posted inHistory

Two authors delight in the remnants of generations past

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 8, 2020
Rabbi Mayer Hirsch with barrels of sacramental kosher wine during Prohibition in San Francisco, ca. 1930. (The Magnes Collection)
Posted inHistory

100 years ago, Prohibition put booze and Jews in the news

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 24, 2019

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