Table of Contents
of Volume 42 #2/3

- Special Issue -

Two Decades of

My Shtetele California:

on

Jewish Western History

1970-1990

by Rabbi William M. Kramer z"l

Foreward 

   by David W. Epstein   xiii

April 16, 1970

  The Groom Thought Better of the Wedding     1

August 14, 1970

  Jewish Appearances are Costly, 1880     3

August 21, 1970

  A Lament for Hebrew, 1880s    5

November 27, 1970

  What’s in a Name    7

February 12, 1971

  Tipperusalem, Nevada     9

September 17, 1971

  They Called the Rabbi—Padre   10

October 8, 1971 [separate article]

  Proto-Zionism in Ventura   14

October 8, 1971

  Rabbi Magnin’s Arrival   15

October 15, 1971

  Samuel I Fox, San Diego Memoir    17

October 22, 1971

  When Our Economy Hurts   19

November 12, 1971

  Poetic San Diego   21

November 23, 1971

  Jewish Pioneers of Denver, 1879   23

November 26, 1971

  Save Old Sinai Temple   25

December 3, 1971

  Young Rabbi Magnin    27

December 17, 1971

  Harris Newmark    28

December 23, 1971

  Chinese-Jewish Moh-ist   30

December 24, 1971

  Tel Aviv Instead of Tijuana?   32

January 7, 1972

  Hebrew Union College: A Crying Shame, 1880   33

January 21, 1972

  Kramer’s Dancing Academy   35

January 28, 1972

  Our Early Automobiles   36

February 4, 1972

  In Matters of Romance   38

February 20, 1972

  Rabbi Magnin Answers   40

March 3, 1972

  Jews in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake-Fire   41

March 17, 1972

  The Inspiration of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, 1899    42

May 19, 1972

  A Bankrupt California Without the Jews, 1865   43

May 26, 1972

  A San Diego First   45

June 2, 1972

  Magnin Regarding Colleges 46

June 30, 1972  

  A Jew is a Jew!    47

July 21, 1972

  Best Friend of the Animals, 1871   49

August 18, 1972

  Historic Letter from the Bishop, 1880   51

November 10, 1972

  Newmark’s Commandments for Net Profit, 1912   53

November 17, 1972

  Tribute to Kaspare Cohn   55

March 16, 1973

  Letters from Folsom   56

November 12, 1973

  Business as Usual . . .   58

November 23, 1973

  "The Hebrew" Reviewed   59

December 7, 1973

  Gold Rush Jews   60

December 14, 1973

  Emil Harris: Jewish Police Chief, 1878   61

November 25, 1974

  Judge Jacob Weinberger of San Diego   63

May 30, 1975

  Call for Jewish Heritage Historical Fire Brigade   64

June 13, 1975

  Goldwater the Telegrapher   65

June 20, 1975

  Samuel Norton: Jewish Sheepherder, 1850s   67

July 4, 1975

  Isaiah M. Hellman, Eary Hellamn Family Pioneer   68

July 11, 1975

  Samuel Prager   69

July 18, 1975

  Leopold Harris   70

October 31, 1975

  Adolph Himeles, St. Louis "Fuzz"   71

November 14, 1975

  The Call of the Gold Rush   72

December 5, 1975

  Golden Jews of the Golden State  73

April 23, 1976

  Jacoby Brothers Clothiers   74

June 25, 1776

  An Ecumenical First   75

August 27, 1976

  A Latin Dichotomy   76

November 8, 1976

  Bicentennial Reflections from London   77

March 25, 1977

  Mr. Levy of Fiji, 1877   78

June 3, 1977

  The Long Jewish Round Trip   79

August 12, 1977

  A Rabbi’s Travail   80

December 16, 1977

  Daniel Cave: San Diego’s Jewish Dentist & Land Baron   81

1978 (No other date)

  Mendel Meyer Saves Baby, 1875    82

March 10, 1978

  The Wedding was Off, 1883   83

September 29, 1978

  It is French to be Jewish   84

March 23, 1979

  Jewish Stock of Stockton   85

April 4, 1980

  Oklahoma, Okay! 1903   87

January 17, 1981

  Early Jewish Defense League, circa 1902   88

March 13, 1981

  Adam and Eve in Los Angeles   89

April 3, 1981

  A Little Blushing   91

April 17, 1981

  Melville Nordlinger   92

April 24, 1981

  Where is "Is" Spitz?  93

May 1, 1981

  In Search of Old Sol   95

June 3, 1981

  The Anfengers of Colorado   96

June 12, 1981

  Missionaries on the Heights, 1931   97

September 11, 1981

  A Chazen on Stage   98

November 13, 1981

  Casper Marks: Getting Rich Down Under  100

November 20, 1981

  First Jews in Mexico: They Rode with Cortez  102

January 28, 1982

  Some Jewish Civil Servants of Early Los Angeles  103

August 27, 1982

  Origins of LA’s First Orthodox Shul, Part I  104

September 3, 1982

  Oldest Orthodox Shul in Los Angeles, Part II 106

November 19, 1982

  Thanksgiving in California, 1857  108

January 7, 1983

  Moses Lopez Naturalized  110

February 4, 1983

  Early Jewish Civil Servants: More Comes to Light  111

April 1, 1983

  Jewish Talkie Film Heroine Dies in Placerville  113

June 17, 1983

  Jewish Families of Petaluma, California  115

June 24, 1983

  Petaluma Jewry, Continued  117

July 1, 1983

  Los Angeles’ Sephardic Jewish Messenger  119

September 2, 1983

  Those Days in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights, Part I  120

September 9, 1983

  Those Days in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights, Part II  121

September 30, 1983 

  Jewish Egg Farmers in Petaluma’s Past   122

November 18, 1983

  It’s a Long Way from Okmulgee, 1912  124

November 25, 1983

  "Mushy" Callahan: Jewish Fighter of Boyle Heights  125

December 9, 1983

  Bill Green, Pioneer of Our Shtetle Los Angeles  127

May 4, 1984

  California Jewry, 80 Years Ago  130

July 13, 1984

  Jewish Star over San Berdoo  132

September 21, 1984

  Two Pioneer Ladies of Old Seattle  134

December 21, 1984

  The Rochlins and Pioneer Jewry  136

February 1, 1985

  Did They Ever Get Married?  137

February 8, 1985

  But Was She Jewish?   140

February 15, 1985 

  The Life of Edgar Magnin, Part I  141

February 22, 1985

  The Youth of Edgar Magnin, Part II  143

March 1, 1985

  Young Magnin, Part III  145

April 12, 1985

  Four Jewish News Papers in ‘Frisco, 1887  147

April 19, 1985

  The Rattners of Sun Valley  148

May 7, 1985

  No Place Like Home, Beth Israel, San Diego, 1891  150

May 18, 1985

  The Promised Land in California, 1904  151

June 7, 1985

  Sol Strauss Must Marry!  153

June 14, 1985

  Jewish Family Life in 1903   154

July 5, 1985

  Jewish Horatio Alger Story: Edward D. Mitchell  156

August 2, 1985

  What Edison Really Said  158

August 30, 1985

  Murder in Nevada, 1869  160

September 6, 1985

  Harmony in San Francisco, 1849-1850  161

November 15, 1985

  Californias Help Morocco Brethern, 1860  162

January 3, 1986

  A Jewess’ Message  164

January 31, 1986

  A Weekend Shepard, 1875  165

March 7, 1986

  In Praise of Lazard  166

March 28, 1986

  One Kohn and Three Levys   168

April 18, 1986

  Deep in the Heart of Pesach  169

April 25, 1986

  Rabbi Stays in San Diego  170

May 30, 1986

  Of Temple Street & Boyle Heights  172

July 4, 1986

  Beth El Was Hollywood  174

November 3, 1986

  A Civil Yom Kippur War  175

November 31, 1986

  Lazard Freres, From San Francisco to Paris  177

January 2, 1987

  Why Did the Rabbi Go East?  179

March 6, 1987

  A Tragic Western Romance, 1880  181

April 10, 1987

  Al Levy’s: Where the Elite Meet to Eat   182

June 5, 1987

  When the Jewish Homes Really Began, 1910, Not 1912  183

November 10, 1989

  Jewish Postmasters of the West  185

January 11, 1990

  Message From Fiddletown  186

May 25, 1990

  The Wedding of Sammy Davis, Jr. & May Britt  188

Index for this Special Issue   index i