History of the Jews of Los Angeles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of the Jews of Los Angeles write by Max Vorspan. This book was released on 1970. History of the Jews of Los Angeles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic
Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic write by Karen Wilson. This book was released on 2013-05-03. Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic, organized by the Autry National Center of the American West."--Introduction.
History of the Jews in Los Angeles 1850-1900
History of the Jews in Los Angeles 1850-1900 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of the Jews in Los Angeles 1850-1900 write by Max Vorspan. This book was released on 1961. History of the Jews in Los Angeles 1850-1900 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hitler in Los Angeles
Hitler in Los Angeles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hitler in Los Angeles write by Steven J. Ross. This book was released on 2017-10-24. Hitler in Los Angeles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE “[Hitler in Los Angeles] is part thriller and all chiller, about how close the California Reich came to succeeding” (Los Angeles Times). No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city's Jews and to sabotage the nation's military installations: Plans existed for murdering twenty-four prominent Hollywood figures, such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Louis B. Mayer; for driving through Boyle Heights and machine-gunning as many Jews as possible; and for blowing up defense installations and seizing munitions from National Guard armories along the Pacific Coast. U.S. law enforcement agencies were not paying close attention--preferring to monitor Reds rather than Nazis--and only attorney Leon Lewis and his daring ring of spies stood in the way. From 1933 until the end of World War II, Lewis, the man Nazis would come to call “the most dangerous Jew in Los Angeles,” ran a spy operation comprised of military veterans and their wives who infiltrated every Nazi and fascist group in Los Angeles. Often rising to leadership positions, they uncovered and foiled the Nazi's disturbing plans for death and destruction. Featuring a large cast of Nazis, undercover agents, and colorful supporting players, the Los Angeles Times bestselling Hitler in Los Angeles, by acclaimed historian Steven J. Ross, tells the story of Lewis's daring spy network in a time when hate groups had moved from the margins to the mainstream.
A Cultural History of Jews in California
A Cultural History of Jews in California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Cultural History of Jews in California write by Bruce Zuckerman. This book was released on 2009. A Cultural History of Jews in California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With this volume of the Casden Annual Review, we continue our policy of focusing on a single topic, and in this case the topic we have turned to is, quite literally, close to home: the Jewish role in California life. The aim of this volume is to stress the cultural aspects of the Jewish experience of coming to and living in the Golden State. While we cannot hope to present in this limited venue a comprehensive and detailed history of Jews in California, per se, it is our goal to consider a number of insightful perspectives on how the Jews, who settled in California, helped shape the Golden State's culture and were, in turn, themselves molded by cultural influences that were uniquely Californian. While this volume looks at the Jewish experience in California in general-nonetheless, particular emphasis is placed on Southern California. We begin our cultural history at a crucial moment in California history, the mid-nineteenth century in the after-glow of the California Gold Rush, where we encounter a European Jewish emigrant, fresh off the boat, who can (and did) get a chance to make a fortune in the pueblo of Los Angeles and, in doing so, helped define what California is. We conclude it with a personal, meditation from one of the latest group of refugees to come to the west, the Iranian Jews who were forced out of their ancient homeland some thirty years ago and who found in Southern California a particularly hospitable (yet no less difficult) place to transplant their cultural roots. In between, we are treated to a few choice snapshots of how life developed and changed for Jews in California as California itself evolved and grew. We firmly believe that there is something special about the Jewish role in California and even more so in Southern California-that here on the lower left-coast Jews have had an Americanization experience that is significantly different from that which Jews have had elsewhere in the USA. Conversely, Southern California would be quite a different place without the Jews who made it their home. Book jacket.
