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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. First edition, first printing (full number line). Large octavo in orane DJ; xviii, 439 p: ill.; 24 cm. DJ barely worn, bright pages, clean copy with faint wear. Fine in Near Fine(+) DJ. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780520259133Signed by author. Contents: Boomtown: tumult and triumph in Gold Rush San Francisco; Woven into the fabric: the confident community of the Gilded Age; Rooted cosmopolitans: the cultural creativity of the second generation; Eden of the Pacific: the challenges to Judaism at the turn of the century; Healing California: Jewish reformers and revolutionaries in the progressive era; Trials: firestorms and corruption, terrorism and world war; With a Yiddish accent: East European Jewish neighborhoods; Good times: the Jewish elite between the wars; Both sides of the barricades: Jews and class conflict during the Depression; Cataclysms: responses to the Holocaust and Zionism. Jews -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History. Show more