Indexes for Western States Jewish History Journals
Western States Jewish History — parent of the Jewish Museum of the American West — has published four journals per year for 50 years.
Much of the material in the Jewish Museum of the American West comes from our vast library of articles researched over five decades.
While our Museum Exhibits are limited in scope, researchers, family members, and genealogists can have access to the complete articles by ordering back issues of Western States Jewish History or requesting specific articles through this website.
Special Note on Back Issues
All requests for back issues should be made to Henry Hollander, Bookseller.*
843 24th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94121
1-800-275-8777 or 415-407-1498
*We no longer handle back issues at WSJH or through this website.
Relaunched Journal
In 2021, Western States Jewish History was relaunched as a peer-reviewed, bi-annual academic journal, now published by Texas Tech University Press (TTUP).
Visit the TTUP website for subscription and submission information, or email us at JMAWcurator@gmail.com.
Volume 51, Number 1 (Fall 2020)
“A Sort of Jewish-Black Alliance: The Early History of the NAACP in Minneapolis,” by Deborah Y. Bachrach
“Michael Joshua Banner: ‘The Rising Paganini’ of Jewish Sacramento,” by Jonathan L. Friedmann
“The Omaha Jewish Cookbook Trilogy, 1901–1928,” Oliver B. Pollak
“H. H. Brodeck: A Legacy of Early Alaskan Photographs,” Donna Aycock Cummins
Book Reviews
William R. Huber, Adolph Sutro: King of the Comstock Lode and Mayor of San Francisco, reviewed by Mark Abbott Stern
Richard Simon, Boss Simon: Joseph Simon, The First Jewish Republican Senator, reviewed by Abraham Hoffman
David S. Koffman, The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America, reviewed by Tamar Frankiel
Shari Rabin, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America, reviewed by John F. Guest
Joe Kraus, The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters, reviewed by Jason Schulman
Laura Limonic, Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States, reviewed by Hollace Ava Weiner
Noel H. Pugach and Richard Melizer, eds., Pioneer Jewish Families in New Mexico, reviewed by Judith S. Pinnolis
David Biespiel, A Place of Exodus: Home, Memory, and Texas, reviewed by Hollace Ava Weiner
Donna Rifkind, The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood, reviewed by Abraham Hoffman
Volume 51, Number 2 (Spring 2021)
“Jews and the Civil Rights Movement in the American West: A Roundtable,” by Jason Schulman, Marc Dollinger, Shana Bernstein, Howard Droker, Timothy Riggio Quevillon, Laura Weber, David S. Koffman
“The Secrets of Happiness and Longevity: A Jewish Response to the Metaphysical Movement in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles,” by Jonathan L. Friedmann
“Attendance at Orthodox Minyanim: Vancouver and San Diego in the 1970s,” by Douglas Wertheimer
“Home on the Mesabi Iron Range: Minnesota’s Jewish Cowboys, an Underexplored Niche in Immigration History,” by Deborah Y. Bachrach
Book Reviews
Julia Rose Kraut, Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States, reviewed by Jason Schulman
Ann Haber Stanton, Deadwood’s Jewish Pioneers: A Gold Rush Odyssey, reviewed by Hollace Ava Weiner
Chris Yogerst, Hollywood Hates Hitler! Jew-Baiting, Anti-Nazism, and Senate Investigations into Warmongering in Motion Pictures, reviewed by Abraham Hoffman
Lily E. Hirsch, Anneliese Landau’s Life in Music: Nazi Germany to Émigré California, reviewed by Judith S. Pinnolis
Hy Berman and Jay Weiner, Professor Berman: The Last Lecture of Minnesota’s Greatest Public Historian, reviewed by Jonathan L. Friedmann
Sophie Greenspan, Westward with Fremont: The Story of Solomon Carvalho, reviewed by Abraham Hoffman
Volume 52, Number 1 (Fall 2021)
“The Alaska Resettlement Plan: The Miracle that Didn’t Happen for European Jewish Refugees, 1935-1941,” by Wynne R. Waugaman
“The Jews of Murrieta Hot Springs: Creating the Catskills of Southern California,” by Jonathan L. Friedmann
“Ethnic Homesteading in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest: A Historiography of Irish Catholic, African American, and Eastern European Jewish Settlements,” by Naomi Sandweiss
“‘Doctor Billy’: A New Biographical Portrait of the Pioneering Hollywood Film Composer William L. Axt,” by N. William Snedden
Book Reviews
Allison E. Scottenstein, Changing Perspectives: Black-Jewish Relations in Houston During the Civil Rights Era, reviewed by Joshua J. Furman
Anne Goldman, Stargazing in the Atomic Age: Essays, reviewed by Judith David Bloomfield
Michael Shnayerson, Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream, reviewed by Mark Abbott Stern
David Horgan, Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West, reviewed by Abraham Hoffman
Elizabeth Fenton, Old Canaan in a New World: Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel, reviewed by Jonathan L. Friedmann
Sean Martin and John J. Grabowski, eds., Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community, reviewed by Oliver B. Pollak
Keith Warwick, Jewish Neighborhoods in California: History and Development, reviewed by Abraham Hoffman
Volume 52, Number 2 (Spring 2022)
“Jewish Museums in the American West: A Roundtable,” by Jason Schulman,Leslie Fried, Daniel Stone, Belle Jarniewski, Phyllis Braun , Judy Margles, Gravity Goldberg, and Kenneth Hoffman
“The Frisco Kid Revisited: Sources and Themes in the Original Screenplay,” by Jonathan L. Friedmann
“State of the Field: Jewish History in the North American West,” by Maxwell Greenberg
“A Gentile Among Jews: Hugo Friedhofer’s Formative Years in California, 1901–1934,” by N. William Snedden
Book Reviews
Richard Flory and Diane Winston, eds., Religion in Los Angeles: Religious Activism, Innovation, and Diversity in the Global City, reviewed by Joel Gereboff
Rachel Schreiber, Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration, reviewed by Jason Schulman
David S. Koffman, ed., No Better Home? Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging, reviewed by Judith David Bloomfield
George J. Sanchez, Boyle Heights:How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy, reviewed by Abraham Hoffman
Rachel B. Gross, Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice, reviewed by Jonathan L. Friedmann
Anne Evers Hitz, Lost Department Stores of San Francisco, reviewed by Oliver B. Pollak
Sam B. Girgus, Generations of Jewish Directors and the Struggle for America’s Soul, reviewed by Abraham Hoffman
Rebecca Kobrin, ed., Salo Baron: The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America, reviewed by Joel Gereboff
Western States Jewish History Journal
50 Year Index
Volumes 1 through 50
There are three different indexes, each starting with Volume 1, Number 1 (October 1968) and continue through Volume 50, Number 3/4 (Spring/Summer 2018).
Index #1 is organized by the main person of the listed article.
Index #2 is organized by the general location of the listed article and is used when a main person is not listed.
Index #3 is for special Double and Triple Length Special Issues.
Always check Index #1 first for research purposes.
In a few cases, articles are listed twice, in different issues, in a given index. Through the years, WSJH has reached into its past to produce special issues. For example: Volume 27, Number 3 (April 1995) is a special issue on California, Earthquakes, and Jews. Many earlier articles were selected and updated, where appropriate, by Rabbi Dr. William M. Kramer.
Volume 28 Numbers 3 & 4 and Volume 29, Number 1 were special issues on the Sephardic Jews of the West. Many of the chapters of these three volumes also came from earlier articles in WSJH, and many were revised or up-dated by Rabbi Dr. Kramer.
Index #1 Person Index
Indexed by last name
A – B C -D E – F G – H I – J K L M
N – O P – Q – R S T – U – V W – X – Y – Z
Index #2 Location Index
Go to Master Table of Contents for “Location” Index
or
San Diego Area & Southern California General
Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho & Illinois
Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana & Nebraska
Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon & South Dakota
Texas, Utah, Washington & Wyoming
Midwest-General, Northwest General, Southwest General, Western States General, United States General
Index #3 for Special Double and Triple Length Issues/Books