Item 118: Bookplate, Temple Emanuel San Francisco, no date
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 118
Dates
- Created: no date
Creator
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Bookplate
Condition Note:
Good, no issues.
Measurements:
4 in. x 2 15/16
Title:
Given by the Ladies of the Temple Emanu-el San Francisco
Description:
A bookplate depicting an onion-shaped building with flowers and leaves around it. “Congregation of Emanu-el San Francisco is one of the two oldest Jewish congregations in California, and one of the largest Jewish congregations in the United States. A member of the Union for Reform Judaism, Congregation Emanu-El is a significant gathering place for the Bay Area Jewish community. During the gold rush of 1849, a small group of jews held the first High Holy Days services in a tent in San Francisco; it was the first Jewish service on the west coast of the United States.” It was started in 1850 and it received its charter a year later. The Jews who started the temple were from Bavaria, Germany. “In 1860, Reform rabbi Elkan Cohn joined the Emanu-El congregation and became its leader in 1877 led it as the first in the west to join the reform movement. As the reform movement spread in the United States during the early twentieth century, the synagogue became affiliated with this framework.” Julie Rosewald became the first woman cantor in 1884 and served at the temple for nine years. “Among its major programs today, the synagogue includes worship, youth and adult education programs, and a major emphasis on social justice.” Some of its prominent members are businessman, and San Francisco Giants executive officer, Larry Baer, Jim Bennett, “the father of the thirteenth Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett, former Supreme Court Justice, Stephen Bryer, late California senator, Dianne Feinstein, and the founder of Levi’s, Levi Strauss.
The Jewish Museum of the American West has more information of the history of the Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco.
Location:
San Francisco, California
Creator
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu