Research Catalog

Title

A homeland in the West : Utah Jews remember / [edited and compiled by] Eileen Hallet Stone.

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Stone, Eileen Hallet, 1943-

Description

xvi, 500 pages : illustrations, photographs; 27 cm

Subjects

• Jews > Utah > Interviews
• Jews > Utah > Identity
• Jews > Utah > Social life and customs
• Utah > Ethnic relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Contents

• Introduction: A Brief History of Utah Jews in the West: Early Jews of the West -- 1. A Wandering Jew on the Thirty-eighth Parallel: Solomon Nunes Cavalho -- 2. European Jewry: An Overview / Peter Black -- 3. Early Jewish Utah Pioneers. "Fannie, Let Us Take Our Few Dollars and Go West": Julius and Fannie Brooks. Gentile Pioneer Merchants: Samuel H. Auerbach. From Tie Camp to Political Ties: Simon Bamberger. "Anna Got Her Gun": Anna Rich Marks. A Newhouse Monogram: Samuel Newhouse. A Pioneer in Underground Mining Machinery: Joseph Rosenblatt -- 4. Turn-of-the-Century Arrivals. For Love of Yiddish: Abe B. Cline. Collateral: Character, Faith and Whatnot: Simon Frank. Naches in Nephi: Eva Siegel. With the Encouragement of Strangers: Sol J. Selvin. Keeping Kosher in Vernal: Claire Steres Bernstein. Born of Immigrant Parents: Abe Bernstein. Red-Hot Coals: Esther Klein. The Traveling Salesman: Simon Shapiro -- 5. Minyan in a Railroad Town. An Ogden Native: Ralph Benowitz.
• Farm Life and the Jewish Daily Forward: Doris Neiditch Guss -- 6. Back to the Land. A Brief View of Clarion / Robert Alan Goldberg. The Agricultural Colony Clarion: A Retrospective / Several Clarion Colonists -- 7. Networking. Before the Talkies: Howard Marcus. Radio Days: Sid Fox. The Newsies / Richard McGillis and Charlie McGillis. Judaism, Politics, PR, and War: A. Wally Sandack -- 8. Shochets and Cattle Dealers. Schmaltz for the Holidays: Harry J. Doctorman. "The Bumper" / Paula Block Draper and Paul Weinstein Block -- 9. Knishes and Kashrut. Devotion to Tradition: Ed Eisen. Cheverta Kaddish, an Honor: Sade Tannenbaum. Everyone's Going Meshugge in the Kitchen: Jean Eisen. A Boat to America: Abe Guss. Goyisheh Potatoes and Kosher Homes: Rose Guss Nord. It's in the Bag: I. J. Wagner. Wolfes in the West: Michael Wolfe. Sweet Tooth: Tony Sweet -- 10. Standing Up to Bigotry. Ragtown: Sidney Matz. Peddler in the Storm: Ruth Matz McCrimmon.
• A Minority Child: Berenice Matz Engelberg. "The Jewish Kid": Eugene Levetan -- 11. L'Chaim. Merchants, Mavins, Military, and Mergers: Ralph Tannenbaum. "The Americans Are Here!": Harry Miller -- 12. Surviving. Escape from Kristallnacht: Minna Margaret Loser Praijs and John Price. "I Had on Working Clothes and a Coat, That's All": Isaac Rose. Forced Labor, Lost Youth: Michael Schafir. Revisioning the Holocaust: Hilda Parker. Liberating Dachau, a Soldier's Observations: Joel Shapiro. Stalag 19: Dr. Ernst Beier -- 13. Tzedakah. Worldly Experiences: Joanne Spitzer McGillis. The CCC Camp: Anne Dolowitz. "Busy as a Bird Dog": Esther Rosenblatt Landa. The Mount Sinai Poker, Canasta, and S[superscript ******] Club / Carol Landa -- 14. Landsmen. Soviet in Salt Lake: Alla Branzburg. Frontier Jews: Harris Lenowitz. The Chabad Life in Utah: Sharonne Zippel. App. A. The Memories Are Many, the Stores Now Few: A Partial List of Jewish-Owned Businesses in Utah, Pre- and Post-World War II --
• App. B. Traditional Jewish Foods / Edited by Donna Barnow Balandrin -- App. C. Yiddish Glossary, Hebrew Terms, and Some Expressions.

ISBN

0874807026 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001003862

OCLC

• 47225062
• ocm47225062
• SCSB-4248850

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries