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Author : William M. Kramer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914615156
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)
Download or read book California, Earthquakes and Jews written by William M. Kramer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abraham Hoffman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439660824
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book California's Deadliest Earthquakes written by Abraham Hoffman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed look at the state’s most terrifying and destructive disasters—photos included. Home to hundreds of faults, California leads the nation in frequency of earthquakes every year. And despite enduring their share of the natural disasters, residents still speculate over the inevitable “big one.” More than three thousand people lost their lives during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Long Beach’s 1933 earthquake caused nearly $50 million in damages. And the Northridge earthquake injured thousands and left a $550 million economic hit. In this book, historian Abraham Hoffman explores the personal accounts and aftermath of California’s most destructive tremors.
Author : Frances Dinkelspiel
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429959592
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Towers of Gold written by Frances Dinkelspiel and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaias Hellman, a Jewish immigrant, arrived in California in 1859 with very little money in his pocket and his brother Herman by his side. By the time he died, he had effectively transformed Los Angeles into the modern metropolis we see today. In Frances Dinkelspiel's groundbreaking history, the early days of California are seen through the life of a man who started out as a simple store owner only to become California's premier money-man of the late 19th and early 20th century. Growing up as a young immigrant, Hellman quickly learned the use to which "capital" could be put, founding LA's Farmers and Merchants Bank, that city's first successful bank, and transforming Wells Fargo into one of the West's biggest financial institutions. He invested money with Henry Huntington to build trolley lines, lent Edward Doheney the funds that led him to discover California's huge oil reserves, and assisted Harrison Gary Otis in acquiring full ownership of the Los Angeles Times. Hellman led the building of Los Angeles' first synagogue, the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, helped start the University of Southern California and served as Regent of the University of California. His influence, however, was not limited to Los Angeles. He controlled the California wine industry for almost twenty years and, after San Francisco's devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, calmed the financial markets there in order to help that great city rise from the ashes. With all of these accomplishments, Isaias Hellman almost single-handedly brought California into modernity. Ripe with great historical events that filled the early days of California such as the Gold Rush and the San Francisco earthquake, Towers of Gold brings to life the transformation of California from a frontier society whose economy was driven by the barter of hides and exchange of gold dust into a vibrant state with the strongest economy in the nation.
Author : Edward Zerin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738546834
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Jewish San Francisco written by Edward Zerin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In San Francisco, the "instant city" of the gold rush days, Jews were pioneers among pioneers. Some came as immigrants directly from Europe, others as resettled adventurers from the East Coast, and still others as scions of southern Sephardic families. Out of this mixed multitude emerged a community with synagogues and institutions to care for the needy and the sick, along with a dignified social fabric. New immigrants following the Russian pogroms of 1883 were absorbed, and the ashen ruins from the 1906 earthquake were rebuilt. The city's cultural treasures and social needs were enriched, and the city's Jews were nurtured by civic commitments. Today's 70,000 San Francisco Jews, standing upon the shoulders of pioneering giants, continue to build and rebuild.
Author : California. State Earthquake Investigation Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906 written by California. State Earthquake Investigation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Report Concerning Suffering Jews in San Francisco Earthquake and Fire written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee visited relief camps and interviewed Rabbis and leaders of communal institutions, such as the Orphan Asylum, to assess the impact of the earthquake on the San Francisco Jewish Community. It found a general increased need for funding for relief purposes. It was decided that no special immediate relief fund for Jews was needed, but that the problem of support for the existing relief societies could be met by using existing reserve funds, and, if necessary, an appeal to the wealthier members of the community. In Proceedings of the 4th National Conference of Jewish Charities, 1906, Kohn & Pollock Inc.
Author : California. State Earthquake Investigation Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906 written by California. State Earthquake Investigation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Flavius Josephus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The genuine works of Flavius Josephus: Containing four books of the Jewish war written by Flavius Josephus and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Starr Jordan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The California Earthquake of 1906 written by David Starr Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Western States Jewish History written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred Rosenbaum
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271300
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Cosmopolitans written by Fred Rosenbaum and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levi Strauss, A.L. Gump, Yehudi Menuhin, Gertrude Stein, Adolph Sutro, Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn--Jewish people have been so enmeshed in life in and around San Francisco that their story is a chronicle of the metropolis itself. Since the Gold Rush, Bay Area Jews have countered stereotypes, working as farmers and miners, boxers and mountaineers. They were Gold Rush pioneers, Gilded Age tycoons, and Progressive Era reformers. Told through an astonishing range of characters and events, Cosmopolitans illuminates many aspects of Jewish life in the area: the high profile of Jewish women, extraordinary achievements in the business world, the cultural creativity of the second generation, the bitter debate about the proper response to the Holocaust and Zionism, and much more. Focusing in rich detail on the first hundred years after the Gold Rush, the book also takes the story up to the present day, demonstrating how unusually strong affinities for the arts and for the struggle for social justice have characterized this community even as it has changed over time. Cosmopolitans, set in the uncommonly diverse Bay Area, is a truly unique chapter of the Jewish experience in America.
Author : The Yahwehs!
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105701557
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)
Download or read book CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE written by The Yahwehs! and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A different book consisting of the lyrics to another great twelve tracks CD-Album called California Earthquake. The paperback covers such great hits like Modern Day Stepin Fetchit, Redress 310 Years of Wrong and You Owe. The Yahwehs have done it again with their second masterpiece in this Conscious Rap, Hip Hop and Popular music arrangement.
Author : Charles D. Perrine
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Earthquakes in California in 1898 written by Charles D. Perrine and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062277456
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book A Crack in the Edge of the World written by Simon Winchester and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force. In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of towns to its north-northwest and the south-southeast were overcome by an enormous shaking that was compounded by the violent shocks of an earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter scale. The quake resulted from a rupture in a part of the San Andreas fault, which lies underneath the earth's surface along the northern coast of California. Lasting little more than a minute, the earthquake wrecked 490 blocks, toppled a total of 25,000 buildings, broke open gas mains, cut off electric power lines throughout the Bay area, and effectively destroyed the gold rush capital that had stood there for a half century. Perhaps more significant than the tremors and rumbling, which affected a swatch of California more than 200 miles long, were the fires that took over the city for three days, leaving chaos and horror in its wake. The human tragedy included the deaths of upwards of 700 people, with more than 250,000 left homeless. It was perhaps the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities -- as well as his unique understanding of geology -- to this extraordinary event, exploring not only what happened in northern California in 1906 but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake in the first place. But his achievement is even greater: he positions the quake's significance along the earth's geological timeline and shows the effect it had on the rest of twentieth-century California and American history. A Crack in the Edge of the World is the definitive account of the San Francisco earthquake. It is also a fascinating exploration of a legendary event that changed the way we look at the planet on which we live.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Northern California Jewish Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-04 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles D. Perrine
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Earthquakes in California in 1896 and 1897 written by Charles D. Perrine and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Ball
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Spirits written by John Ball and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ball attributed the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 to spirits who did not attain perfection while alive as human. He blamed some problems on love of money which he attributed to Jewish spirits. The spirits were earthbound and tried to control the affairs of the world's everyday life. Ball personally dealt with these spirits. People who were independent could avoid the problems caused by banding together, thereby admitting weakness. He predicted that San Francisco would rise again. He criticized the whites who did not accept that other races could work just as well as they.
