Being Jewish by the Bay. The Values, the Workings, the Wonders of the Jewish Community of the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco: Produced by the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, ND. Softcover. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated (30pp). Original wraps with small square cutout windows on cover showing portraits of nine Jewish artists. Contents: I: Being Jewish by the Bay. How it all started. Tzedakah in early San Francisco. Welcome to the community. II: How does the Jewish Community Federation annual campaign work? Divisions by geography, age and interest. III: A community of volunteers. "Jews should help Jews...it's your family." IV: Who does what? The Federation's lay leadership organizational structure. V: Taking care of each other. Human caring and sharing - then and now. VI: Where does the money come from? Where does it go? The annual campaign. How the funds are allocated. VII: Being Jewish...education helps. From Sunday Schools to a network that reaches thousands of people. VIII: Jewish pride. The antidote to Jewish fear. The emergence of community relations organizations and a new force of Jewish identity. IX: Being Jewish in the world. Not just by the Bay. The commitment to Israel and K'lal Yisroel. X: Besides the campaign...Other sources of funds of the Jewish Community Federation. XI: Fundraising. What do you get out of it? How Jewish community leaders and professional work together. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs in sepia-tone. Photographs: 1. The Heppner family and friends at a Passover Seder one year following the earthquake and fire, San Francisco, 1907. 2. The Lechner family camping in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 1906, after the earthquake and fire. 3. Patriotic Pageant, Emanu-El Residence Club collection. 4. A meeting of the Hebrew Free Loan Association. 5. Dr. Adele S. Jaffa, graduation from the Medical College of the Pacific, San Francisco, 1893. 6. Jewish Community Federation home for the aged. 7. Mount Zion Hospital. 8. Y.M.H.A. barbell class of the San Francisco Jewish Community Center, 1902. 9. B'nai B'rith lodges of San Francisco, Second annual banquet for committee of 50, San Francisco, January 31, 1912. 10. Jewish National Welfare fund of San Francisco, 1947 campaign placard. 11. Emanu-El Sisterhood for personal service Succoth festival, San Francisco, 1916. 13. The Y.M.H.A. Orchestra, San Francisco, 1919. Photographs courtesy of the Western Jewish History Center of the Judah L. Magnes Museum. Very minor sunning and soiling on wraps otherwise in fine condition. Scarce. vg. Item #24899
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