Article: Beyond San Francisco: The Failure of Anti-Zionism in Portland, Oregon.

Historians of the Jewish experience in the American West have struggled to break free of generalizations based on the eastern metropolitan experience that have ruled American Jewish history. Critical studies of Jewish life in the western states have delineated important points of contrast with eastern Jewry, such as the continued dominance of .Jews of German descent; the relative absence of anti-Semitism; the declining proportion of Jews in the western population at the time when the Jewish population share in the East was increasing rapidly; and the small numbers of East European migrants to the West and their correspondingly slight impact on political and cultural ...

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