Jews in Nevada: A History

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9 291 0 notes Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources and Organizations American Israelite (Cincinnati) American Israel Public Affairs Committee American Jewish Archives, Jacob Rader Marcus Center, Cincinnati Carson (Daily) Appeal Daily State Register (Virginia City) Elko (Weekly) Independent Eureka Daily Leader Eureka (Daily) Sentinel Goldfield Chronicle Gold Hill (Daily) News Goldfield News Genoa Weekly Courier Hebrew (San Francisco) Hebrew Sabbath School Visitor (Cincinnati) International Order of B’nai B’rith Jewish Progress (San Francisco) Jewish Reporter (Las Vegas) Las Vegas Age Las Vegas Israelite Las Vegas Review-Journal Las Vegas Sun Morning Appeal (Carson City) Nevada Historical Society, Reno Nevada State Archives, Carson City Nevada State Journal (Reno) Pioche (Daily) Record Reno Crescent Reno Evening Gazette Reno Gazette-Journal Silver Age (Reno) ai aipac aja ca dsr ei edl eds gc ghn gn gwc h hssv iobb jp jr lva lvi lvrj lvs ma nhs nsa nsj pr rc reg rgj sa 9 292 0 Territorial Enterprise (Carson City and Virginia City) University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Lied Library, Special Collections University of Nevada, Reno, Getchell Library, Special Collections Virginia Evening Bulletin Weekly Gleaner (San Francisco) Western Jewish History Center, Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California White Pine (Daily) News Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly or Western States Jewish History (beginning 1983) Yerington Rustler Introduction: Celebrating Tradition and Resisting Assimilation 1. Leonard Dinnerstein, Antisemitism in America, xx. As explained more fully in the chapter on anti-Semitism, I have adopted Dinnerstein’s unhyphenated spelling of the word antisemitism. 2. James Carroll, Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews, a History, 244, 254, 301–10. 3. Hugh Hastings, ed., Ecclesiastical Records, State of New York (Albany, 1901), 1:335–36, as quoted in Edwin S. Gaustad, A Documentary History of Religion in America to the Civil War, 86. 4. Dinnerstein, Antisemitism in America, 4–8, 9. 5. Hasia R. Diner, A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820–1880, 1, 4, 8–17. See also Jacob R. Marcus, United States Jewry, 1776–1985, 2:12–17. 6. John P. Marschall, “The House of Olcovich: A Pioneer Carson City Jewish Family ,” 173–74. For more detail on the plight of Jews in eastern Prussia, see Artur Eisenbach , The Emancipation of the Jews of Poland, 1780–1870, 92, 284, 286–93, 304, 340, 514. 7. Diner, Time for Gathering, 5. 8. U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census Records, State of Nevada, 1880 (copy of original); Marschall, “House of Olcovich,” 174–75. 9. Jonathan Sarna, American Judaism: A History, 470, 480, 482, index passim. Concerning opinions about “who is a Jew,” see ibid., 367ff. See also “A Statement of Principles for Reform Judaism Adopted at the 1999 Pittsburgh Convention Central Conference of American Rabbis, May 1999,” available online at http://www.ccarnet. org/platforms/principles. For further information, see the Web sites of the various groups for their own self-described place within Jewish history and their current claims and activities. te unlvsc unrsc veb wg wjhc wpn wsjhq yr Notes to Pages 1–8 9 293 0 Chapter 1. Peddlers and Merchants, 1850–1863 1. Diner, Time for Gathering, 11, 28, 44, 48. For more on Jewish peddlers, see Harry Lewis Golden, Forgotten Pioneers, 20. 2. Robert E. Levinson, The Jews in the California Gold Rush, 4–5. The first Jewish woman credited with crossing the plains to California via Salt Lake City was Fanny (Bruck) Brooks in 1853. Brooks’s daughter, Eveline, married Samuel Auerbach in 1879. Samuel and his brothers had earlier business in California and in Austin, Nevada, before moving east to Salt Lake City. See Ava F. Kahn, ed., Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History, 1849–1880, 105, 111, 117. 3. Myron Angel, ed., History of Nevada, 1881, with Illustrations, 30; S. Lissner to Henry Lissner, San Francisco, September 23, 1860, Box 549, Folder 1860 1x–23, aja; Jacob R. Marcus, Studies in American Jewish History: Studies and Addresses, 161. 4. Nevada City, Nevada, Journal, November 20, 1857, 1, quoted in Levinson, Jews in the California Gold Rush, 26, 148–49; “Murder of Two Israelites,” h, April 9, 1869, 4. 5. Henry J. Labatt, Voice of Israel, ca. November 1856, reprinted most recently in wsjhq (April 1996): 177. See also John Livingston, introduction to Jews of the American West, 22; and Dinnerstein, Antisemitism in America, 51. 6. Norton B. Stern, “The Labatts’ Attack in San Francisco and Los Angeles.” 7...