Zoya Brumberg-Kraus, "Ethnic Identity in California’s Architectural Vernacular"

Frankely Judaic: Explorations in Jewish Studies

From Gold Mountain to Tinseltown: Ethnic Identity in California’s Architectural Vernacular It’s well known that millions of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe immigrated across the Atlantic to the United States, settling mostly in New York and other large cities. But some Jewish immigrants crossed the Pacific and settled on the West Coast of the United States, in cities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles. In this episode, we explore the research of Zoya Blumberg-Kraus, an independent scholar and fellow at the Frankle Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, which looks at how West Coast Jewish communities used architecture to express their identities as both fully American while also retaining vestiges of their Jewish origins.