PDF Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China’s 100 Questions by Anne-Marie Blondeau; Katia Buffetrille; Donald Lopez in History

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Levi Strauss; A.L. Gump; Yehudi Menuhin; Gertrude Stein; Adolph Sutro; Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn--Jewish people have been so enmeshed in life in and around San Francisco that their story is a chronicle of the metropolis itself. Since the Gold Rush; Bay Area Jews have countered stereotypes; working as farmers and miners; boxers and mountaineers. They were Gold Rush pioneers; Gilded Age tycoons; and Progressive Era reformers. Told through an astonishing range of characters and events; Cosmopolitans illuminates many aspects of Jewish life in the area: the high profile of Jewish women; extraordinary achievements in the business world; the cultural creativity of the second generation; the bitter debate about the proper response to the Holocaust and Zionism; and much more. Focusing in rich detail on the first hundred years after the Gold Rush; the book also takes the story up to the present day; demonstrating how unusually strong affinities for the arts and for the struggle for social justice have characterized this community even as it has changed over time. Cosmopolitans; set in the uncommonly diverse Bay Area; is a truly unique chapter of the Jewish experience in America.