[PDF.69qh] Visions of Reform : Congregation Emanu-El and the Jews of San Francisco 1849-1999

Visions of Reform : Congregation Emanu-El and the Jews of San Francisco 1849-1999

[PDF.as49] Visions of Reform : Congregation Emanu-El and the Jews of San Francisco 1849-1999

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 | #871456 in Books |  Judah L. Magnes Museum |  2000-02-15 | File type: PDF | 534 pages

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||2 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| San Francisco history from the Jewish perspective|By Mary Mekko|As a tour guide and San Francisco history buff , I can highly recommend this well-researched book by Fred rosenbaum. A great many movers and shakers in our city were and still are German Jews. They comprised about half of the German immigration a t the time of the Gold Rush. They came for opportunity in wholesa| |How refreshing to see a synagogue history that tells the story as it was, warts and all. -- Professor Jonathan Sarna, Chairman of the department of Near

The book...is being seen as a sign of a new spirit of candor in American Judaism... --

Congregation Emanu-El's portrait has been painted here in a broad canvas of a momentous century and a half of world Jewish History. Waves of immigration, the changing posture of the Reform movement, the response to the Holocaust, the acrimonious debate over the birth of Israel, and, in recent decades, the reaction to alternative expression of Judaism are among the many important themes that shape this richly textured narrative.

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Visions of Reform : Congregation Emanu-El and the Jews of San Francisco 1849-1999   |  Fred Rosenbaum.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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