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The Huntington Library, Published 1970. Hardcover, xii, 362 pp.; 25 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
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In Very Good condition with an Acceptable+ dust jacket. Gray cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Mild shelf wear with a hint of color loss at corner tips and foot of spine. Binding tight. Sticker residue and a hint of staining to front free endpaper and front pastedown. Otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Teal dust jacket with cream oval title device, several chips and tears of 3/4 inch or less, and creasing along edges. Moderate overall scuffing and shelf wear with color loss to paper along edges and spine hinges. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.The first full-scale history of the Jewish community of Los Angeles, from Jacob Frankfort, the first known Jewish resident, who arrived in the pueblo in 1841, through the community's growth into one of the largest in the country. Vorspan and Gartner trace the Jews' role in the cultural, civic, and economic life of the city across two parts and nineteen chapters, with extended notes, appendices, and an index. Issued in the Regional History Series of the American Jewish History Center of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. This is the Huntington Library edition, the more finely printed of the two issues published in 1970.Contents: Part I: The Gold Rush Days, 1850-1858; Disaster and Recovery, 1860-1880; The Framework of Jewish Life; The 1880s: Decade of Boom and Bust; The Founding Age Closes. Part II: From Outpost to Major Community; Economic Activity, 1900-1928; In Local Society and Culture, 1900-1928; Religious Growth and Adaptation; Philanthropy; The Broadened Horizon of Wartime; The Trials of Depression; The Community Weakened and Rejuvenated, 1929-1941; Soaring Population and Economic Expansion; Equal Rights and Their Diffusion; Education for Life and Judaism; Religious Life; Community within Metropolis; Epilogue. With two appendices, notes, and index.