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By Edward Zerin
In San Francisco, the "instant city" of the gold rush days, Jews have been pioneers between pioneers. a few got here as immigrants at once from Europe, others as resettled adventurers from the East Coast, and nonetheless others as scions of southern Sephardic households. Out of this combined multitude emerged a neighborhood with synagogues and associations to take care of the needy and the in poor health, besides a dignified social cloth. New immigrants following the Russian pogroms of 1883 have been absorbed, and the ashen ruins from the 1906 earthquake have been rebuilt. The city's cultural treasures and social wishes have been enriched, and the city's Jews have been nurtured through civic commitments. Today's 70,000 San Francisco Jews, status upon the shoulders of pioneering giants, proceed to construct and rebuild.
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