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These documents illustrate the business ties between the flourishing Irish and Jewish immigrant communities in late nineteenth-century San Francisco. Successive waves of immigration and the economic connections between them are an essential theme of the American experience. These historic documents were created by the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society in connection with the early Jewish immigrant institutions they served in San Francisco. They demonstrate the vitality of these immigrant communities, the civic, religious, and business institutions they established, and the patterns of leadership in those organizations. With the Gold Rush, San Francisco s Irish population grew to 4200 in 1852; by 1880 this number had reached more than 30,000, thirty-seven percent of San Francisco s population. They formed cultural organizations like the Hibernia Association (1852) , The Irish Festival (1863) , and The Knights of the Red Branch (in the Mission) . . . The Irish were . . . prominent in business. Samuel Brannan printed San Francisco s first newspaper in 1846. John Sullivan founded Hibernia Savings and Loan and the Hibernia Housing Society, which helped immigrants with loans to buy land and homes (sfcityguides.org). Each document deals with the account of a 19th-century San Francisco Jewish institution, from benevolent and social societies to synagogues. These include: Chebra B Rith Shalom, Chebra Shaare Refooah Society, Congregation Ohabi Shalome, Congregation Tiferes Izrael, the Montefiore Lodge K.S.B., the California Lodge, and the Society Sons of Jacob (one document also deals with the Polish Ladies Society and Mutual Aid). The documents are signed by leading officers in those organizations. These include Theodor Blodes, Sigmund Fischer, Soloman Meyer, Leiser Zier, Samuel Cohn, David Block, Morris Whitehead, David Cohn, Julius Oraelsky, Adolf Morris, Charles Danziger, Magdalena Kropaniewicz, Paulina Fijalkowky, Isaac Silverman, George Rosenberg, Harris Rubin, Louis Friedlander, Abraham Colman, and many others. 4to. 19 printed documents, completed in manuscript, plus 2 related manuscript notes. Some edgewear, a few tears, but generally in good condition. Seller Inventory # ABE-1623939951195
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