Join noted author and tour guide, Oscar Israelowitz, on this delightful one-hour zoom program. Highlights include:
• Spanish California and the Spanish Inquisition from the Old World.
• Discovery of Gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848.
• Historic wooden synagogue buildings in Stockton, San Leandro and San Diego.
• Posse breaks up Yom Kippur Services and arrests member of congregation in San Diego.
• Great Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco in 1906 destroys Temple Emanu-El.
• Adolph Sutro, German–Jewish engineer, designs Sutro Tunnel in Virginia City, NV, and builds San Francisco’s Cliff House.
• Why is Wyatt Earp buried in the Hills of Eternity Jewish Cemetery in Colma, California?
• History of Jewish Los Angeles portrayed in the Fairfax Community Mural.
• Edgar F. Magnin, “Rabbi to the Hollywood Stars,” noted rabbi of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple for nearly 70 years.
• Jewish movie moguls and their early beginnings in Eastern Europe.
• First “talking” motion picture, “The Jazz Singer,” starring Al Jolson and Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt in 1927.
• LA’s Breed Street Shul was used in the filming of the original 1927 “The Jazz Singer” and its remake in 1980.
• “The Jazz Singer’s” plot involves a noted jazz singer who returns to his dying father’s synagogue and sings the Kol Nidre service on Yom Kippur! And this was the first talking motion picture in history!
• Temple Sinai in Los Angeles with its noted Rabbi David Wolpe, was designed by architect Sidney Eisenshtadt.
• House of the Book in Simi Valley was used as a stage set in the filming of “Star Trek VI – The Undiscovered Country.”