Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles

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Our Los Angeles Stories

Boyle Heights

A Tour of Boyle Heights with Jeffrey Bock, Hershey Eisenberg and Sonia Hoffman

Photographs by Jeffrey Bock

Homesteading Boyle Heights by Gayle Schlissel Riley

Photos from Gayle Schlissel Riley Collection

A Boyle Heights Boyhood by Abe Hoffman

The Solomon Family of Boyle Heights by Sherrill Kushner

Looking for Fraider Connections by Jeff Miller

The HaCohen Family of Plock and Los Angeles by Annette Young

Los Angeles

My Los Angeles Family  by Ronald Barnett

The Maltz Family by Julie Maltz Borman

The Green-Yigler and Gradowitz Families by Gloria Burney

Leon Rudelson’s Trip with Grandpa by Carol Dondick

Peter M. Kahn, 1878-1952 by Judy Kahn Gorman

My Grandfather Comes to America by Don Goodman

My L.A. Neighborhoods by Louise Lapin Haines

Komonee Grocery Store on West Jefferson Ave by Sharon Kaiser

The Harris Newmark Family by John Newmark Levi, Jr.

The Kingsbaker-Loew and Sunderland Family of Los Angeles by David Meyer

From Trebisov to Bikini in Two Generations: The Klein Family by Stephanie Nordlinger

Remember When...Jackie's List by Jackie Schwartz

Movie Extras by Lynne W. Rosenberg

Rothman-Schwartz(Jancu) and Raglow Families by Shirley  Rosenberg

The Simon Family by Alan Simon

Institutions

Sarah Vasen: First Woman Doctor by Julie Beardsley

Photos of Sarah Vasen

The Founders: City of Hope by Bonnie Rogers

Photographs of the City of Hope

Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations (1957)

Congregations in Greater LA

Historical Synagogues of Los Angeles

Habonim - Labor Zionist Youth Photo Album - 1948/49 contributed by Adar Belinkoff

The Night Paramount Burned by Sam Jaffe

Mark Carter 60^th Birthday Testimonial Committee 1945

JGSLA Project 2003

• The Jewish Historical Society of Southern California

• The Oral Interview by Libby Ginsburg

• The Family History Interview by David Hoffman

Research documents

• Introduction from Southwest Jewry by Joseph L. Malamut

• Los Angeles Jewry - A Chronology by Reva Clar

• Timeline of Jewish History in Los Angeles (in the context of history)

• Census Records

  • Jewish Residents in the Los Angeles 1850 Census

    • Biographies

  • Jewish Residents in the Los Angeles 1860 Census

  • Jewish Residents in the Los Angeles 1870 Census

  • Jewish Residents in the Los Angeles 1880 Census

• City Directories 1872

• Jewish Institutions in Los Angeles: 1908 and 1920

• Synagogues in the 1930 City Directory  1932  1938   1942

• Prominent Jews of Los Angeles 1854 - 1925

• Southwest Jewry 1957: Members of the Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations (see Bibliography)

• Old Families of Los Angeles:  Bachman, Hellman, Hellman photographs, Lazard and Lewin

• Biographies

• A Walk Around the Commercial District 1850-1860 by Jackson Graves with photographs by Sonia Hoffman

Resource Guide

• Jewish Cemeteries in Los Angeles

• Resource Guide edited by Carol Dondick and JGSLA volunteers

Maps

• Boyle Heights

• 1888 Insurance Map of Los Angeles

• Surveyor's Map of 1884 (Cemeteries marked)

• Downtown Los Angeles 1909: Denver and W. 11th Street

Links

Bibliography

Western States Jewish History Quarterly Index