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Jewish history

German immigrant Edward Kusel opened photo galleries and variety shops in California’s Central Valley. (Photo/Courtesy Arcadia Publishing)
Posted inBooks

New book tells Jewish stories of the Gold Rush

by Liz Harris May 21, 2020July 8, 2020
The cover of 1933's bilingual Yiddish-English cookbook “Crisco Recipes for the Jewish Housewife.”
Posted inHistory

Crisco and Jews: A story 4,000 years in the making

Rachel B. Gross by Rachel B. Gross March 2, 2020March 2, 2020
As an intern at Sinai Memorial Chapel in San Francisco, Jacob Isaacs created a digital map of historical Jewish sites around the city. (Photo/Courtesy Jacob Isaacs)
Posted inHistory

New digital map offers walking tours of San Francisco’s hidden Jewish history

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 16, 2019October 16, 2019
Jason Harris at his neighborhood Peet's, working on his podcast "Jew Oughta Know" (Photo/David Mamaril Horowitz)
Posted inHistory

Historian’s podcast distills what ‘Jew Oughta Know’

by David Mamaril Horowitz May 17, 2019
Ed Zerin
Posted inBooks

Ed Zerin, the 98-year-old who wrote the book on “Jewish San Francisco”

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 24, 2018October 24, 2018
Posted inTorah

Can Jewish history be reduced to a single line?

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon August 30, 2018August 30, 2018
Stanford University students in Jerusalem on a Birthright Israel trip in 2017.
Posted inIsrael at 70

The lessons of Jewish history, Steve Jobs and the Tenth Roman Legion

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg April 6, 2018April 6, 2018
Annette Yoshiko Reed, a professor at NYU, is one of the speakers in the 2018 Taubman Lectures at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in Berkeley.
Posted inNews

Series on forgotten Jewish history coming to Magnes

by J. Staff March 8, 2018March 8, 2018
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, at the “People, Land, Book” exhibit at San Jose State. (Photo/Rob Gloster)
Posted inNews

‘People, Book, Land’ of Israel — traveling exhibit on Bay Area campuses

by Rob Gloster December 1, 2017December 1, 2017
interior of a white-walled synagogue with a floor of sand
Posted inArt, Culture, Photography

Photographer unearths Jewish treasures of the Caribbean

max cherney by Max A. Cherney March 8, 2017

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