Article about Jewish Bay Area responses to COVID-19
Newspaper about building Emanu-El (or is it Sherith Israel?)
Newspaper about Sherith Israel services
Article by I.J. Benjamin about Jewish life (including cemetaries and synagoges)
Article about San Francisco getting a Torah
Sefer Torahs are extremely expensive and were rare in this part of the country at this time. There were few rabbis out west, and few established synagogues. This marks a monumental occasion where San Francisco reached an important landmark in terms of being viewed as a Jewish community.
Henry, H. A. Presentation of a Sepher at San Francisco. The Occident. October 1, 1861. Philadelphia. The Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Advertisement for the position of Rabbi at Emanu-El
Bloomingdale, J. Congregation Emanu-El, San Francisco. The Occident. April 2, 1856. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Advertisement for the position of Hazan at Ohabai Shalom
Article about Emma Wolf’s writing in San Francisco
AIDS crisis in San Francisco (1980s)
Article about Emma Wolf and interfaith marriage in San Francisco
920 O’Farrell St.
https://lccn.loc.gov/75693104Parsons, Charles R. (Charles Richard), 1844-1918? The city of San Francisco. Birds eye view from the bay looking south-west. Sketched & drawn by C. R. Parsons. New York, Currier & Ives; B. McQuillan, agent for the Pacific Coast, San Francisco, c1878. Perspective map not drawn to scale. col. map 53 x 84 cm. G4364.S5A3 1878 .P3
