Harriet Rochlin on western Jewish history
Program Titles
- In a Rush: Jewish Women in the Early West
- Jewish Kids in the Wild West
- A Historian Turns to Fiction
- I’m a Jewish Westerner. What are You?
- Welcome to the Jewish West
- Harriet Rochlin Collection of Photographs of Western Jewish Life, ca 1845-1991
- The Fred Rochlin Papers
- Jewish pioneering in the Spanish, Mexican, and American Far West
- A Mixed Chorus: Jewish Women in the American West 1849 to 1924
Harriet Rochlin on Jewish roots in the West and Wild West.
Jews began settling in what is now the American Far West nearly 400 years ago, but the study of Western Jewish history is barely forty years old.
This long, complex past abounds with vibrant pioneer male and female personalities and astonishing trailblazing deeds and misdeeds. It also offers fresh insights into how Jews retained their identity while pioneering under hostile and hospitable conditions.
Some of you have considerable knowledge of this emerging strand of the American Jewish legacy; others, little or none. Who we were, are and can become lies buried in these roots.
Books by Harriet Rochlin
- Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West
- The Reformer’s Apprentice: A Novel of Old San Francisco
- The First Lady of Dos Cacahuates (Novel)
- Desert Dweller Trilogy
- On Her Way Home
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