A call came from the Bancroft and I was offered a large group of bound versions of the Oral Histories from the Oral History Center at the University of California, Berkeley. The impulse to record these oral histories goes back to the work that William Bancroft supervised in order to prepare his massive history of California. The Bancroft Library and archives grew out of the donation of this work to the University of California, Berkeley in 1905. The Regional Oral History project was established in 1954. It restarted Bancroft's work but without the impulse to create a single unified history as the end results. These oral histories were created in order to serve the open-ended project of the writing of the history of California in the broadest sense and in an evolutionary way into the future.
A few interviews of significant Jewish figures were conducted in the 1950s and 1960s. Seymour Fromer was probably responsible for the eventual involvement and co-production of these interviews which became more numerous in the 1970 and continue to this day. This became the series, Jewish Community Leaders. In the 1980s a second more focused series entitled, Jewish Community Federation began.
If journalism is the first draft of history, oral history is a close second draft. It is an interesting source because one gets the sense of the the thought processes and priorities of the interviewees. Not all of the information that they provide is reliable or true and the variations between accounts are valuable.
Many, but not all, of these accounts are also available online in a varying selection of formats. However, printed versions of texts are much easier and more pleasant than reading things on the a screen. Many of the older volumes contain original documents and photos that reproduce less well online. Hollander Books offer a large but incomplete selection of the oral histories from the two Jewish series as well as a small selection of additional oral histories not part of the Jewish series.
Our normal practice is to offer illustrations of the boards or title pages of the books offered. However, these volumes are all bound in a relatively uniformed manor and with only minor variations in the typography of the title-pages.
Altman, Ludwig. Ludwig Altman. A Well-Tempered Musician's Unfinished Journey Through Life. California Jewish Community Oral History Series. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1990. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, ix, 190 pp., b/w photos, documentary appendices, tipped in color photo of Altman, copies of documents, index. Obituaries in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Dr. Robert Kirschner. Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser and Caroline Crawford in 1988. (84981) $25.00
Arnstein, Flora J. Ongoing: Poetry, Teaching, Family in San Francisco, 1885-1985. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1985. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, viii, vi, 254 pp., b/w photos, documents, index. With copies of obituaries in an envelope of pasted down to the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Shirley Kaufman. An Interview Conducted by Suzanne B. Riess 1984-1985. (85046) $25.00
Arnstein, Lawrence. Lawrence Arnstein: Community Service in California, Public Health and Social Welfare. Including an Interview with Mrs. Flora Jacobi Arnstein of the Presideo Open School of San Francisco, and Progressive Education. Berkeley, University of California, General Library/ Berkeley, Regional Cultural History Project, 1964. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in color photo of Lawrence and Flora Arnstein as a frontispiece, tipped in four page pamphlet, "Honorary Life Membership: American Social Hygiene Association Presented to Lawrence Arnstein 1956," xiii, 292 pp (single-sided), tipped in cover and single page from Search Magazine, August 1952 with Arnstein on the cover, pamphlet "Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 121, Adopted in May 15, 1957 - Relative to congratulating and commending Lawrence Arnstein in the field of public health," index. Newspaper clippings of two obituaries for Arnstein who died in 1979 at 98. Hardbound. Very Good. An interview conducted by Edna Tartaul Daniel. Arnstein was known as the most vocal advocate for Public Health in the US and was referred to as "Mr. Public Health. Flora Arnstein, his wife, was an educator and a poet. They were members of San Francisco's old German-Jewish circle. Arnstein's recollections of education at University of California; work in his father's woolen business; service on the San Francisco Board of Health and with San Francisco Social Hygiene Association; his long career in community service; sponsorship of legislation for establishment of School of Public Health at University of California. (84930) $35.00
Braun, Jerome I. Jerome I. Braun. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1979-1980. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1996. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, x, 130 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Rabbi Brian Lurie. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1994. (84995) $25.00
Feldman, Jesse. Jesse Feldman. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1973-1974. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, iv, xiii, 77 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introductions by Rabbi Brian Lurie and Murray J. Waldman. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1990. (84979) $25.00
Fleishhacker, Mortimer and Janet Choynski. Mortimer Fleischhacker, Janet Choynski Fleischhacker: Family, Business, and the San Francisco Community. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photos (original photos), vi, xii, 412 pp., several pages of original b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Allan B. Jacobs. Interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun. Copy No. 5. (84978) $25.00
Fromm, Alfred. Alfred Fromm: Wines, Music, and Lifelong Education, with Alfred Fromm: Marketing California Wine and Brandy. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1988, 1984. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, 207, viii, 57 pp., documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Rabbi Brian Lurie. Interviews conducted by Elaine Dorfman and Caroline Crawford in 1986 and 1987. And Including Interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser in 1984. With an Introduction by Leon D. Adams. (84996) $25.00
Gerstley, James Mack. James Mack Gerstley. Executive, U.S. Borax and Chemical Corporation: Trustee, Pomona College; Civic Leader, San Francisco Asian Art Museum. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, iv, xiv, 240 pp., documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Elizabeth Lilienthal Gerstley and Norman J. Travis. Interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser and Eleanot Swent in 1990. (84982) $25.00
Goldman, Richard N. Richard N. Goldman. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1981-1982. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1993. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, xvii, 146 pp., b/w photos, index, images of press clippings. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Brian Lurie, Susan Goldman Gelman, John D. Goldman and Douglas E. Goldman, M.D. Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser in 1992. (85045) $25.00
Goldman, Rhoda H. and Richard N. Experience and Adventure in the Goldman Charitable Funds. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1994. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xvi, xviii, 237 pp., b/w photos, tipped-in color photo, reproductions of newspaper clippings. Copy no. 16. Hardbound. Very Good. Interviews conducted by Gabrielle Morris in 1990. With Introductions by Ira Michael Heyman and Duane Silverstein. History of of Bay Area Philanthropy Series. The Goldman were heirs to the Levi-Strauss fortune. They were significant philanthropists and have passed that heritage on to the next generations. (84934) $25.00
Green, Frances D. Frances D. Greene. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1975-1976. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1996. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, x, 130 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Rabbi Brian Lurie. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1994. (84985) $25.00
Haas, Elise Stern. Elise Stern Haas: The Appreciation of Quality. California Jewish Community Series. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1979. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, b/w frontispiece photo, iv, x, 210 pp., b/w phpts, documents, index, photocopy of Elise Hass' obituary laid-in. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Meyer Friedman, M.D. and Henry T. Hopkins. An interview conducted by Harriet Nathan in 1972. With "A Personal Note to My Children," by Elise Haas. (84984) $25.00
Haas, Peter. Peter Haas: A Life. In His Own Words, With Commentary by Friends and Associates. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 2003. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, 124 single-sided pp., color photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Edited by Linda E. Norton, Senior Editor. Based on interviews conducted by Richard Candida Smith, Leah McGarrigle and Eleanor Glaser in 2000-2002. (84937) $18.00
Haas, Walter A., Sr.; Koshland, Daniel E., Sr.; Haas, Walter, Jr. and Haas, Peter E. Levi Strauss & Co.: Tailors to the World. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1976. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, xiii, frontispiece photo, iv, ii, xv, 83 pp.,iii, frontispiece photo, i, 57 pp., frontispiece photo,, iii, i, 61 pp., frontispiece photo, ii, i, 94, pp.,b/w photos, 46 reproductions of newspaper articles and additional documents, indexes, with two newspaper clippings of articles about Peter Haas in a tipped-in envelope on the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Rabbi Brian Lurie, Louis Weintraub, and Phyllis Cook. An Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser in 1990 and 1991. Copy. No. 6. Robert Sinton was the son or Edgar Sinton. (84941) $20.00
Haas, Walter A., Sr. Walter A. Haas, Sr.: Civic, Philanthropic and Business Leadership. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, iv, vi, 163 single-sided pp., tipped-in b/w original photo of Elise and Walter Haas, Sr., b/w photos, reproductions of newspaper articles, tipped in pamphlet for the Strawberry Canyon Recreational Area, genealogical chart, index. With nine original newspaper clippings and obituaries in a tipped in envelope on the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Clark Kerr. An Interview conducted by Harriet Nathan. Copy No. 5. (84955) $25.00
Hart, Ruth Arnstein. Concern for the Individual: The Community YWCA and Other Berkeley Organizations. Volunteer Leadership Series. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1978. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, iv, viii, 319 pp., b/w photos, documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Ruth Plainfield, and Memorials by Alvin I Fine, Ira Michael Heyman, Charles Muscatine. An Interview Conducted by Gabrielle Morris. (84994) $25.00
Hilborn, Walter S. Walter S. Hilborn. Reflections on Legal Practice and Jewish Community Leadership: New York and Los Angeles, 1907-1973. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1974. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped-in copy of an obituary on the front pastedown endpaper, tipped in b/w frontispiece photo, x, xix pp., genealogical table, 227 pp., tipped in original b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introductions by Alfred Gottschalk and Lester Wm. Roth. An Interview Conducted by Malca Chall. Copy No. 4. (85048) $25.00
Hirsch, Marcel. Marcel Hirsch: The Responsibilities and Rewards of Involvement. California Jewish Community Series. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1981. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, x, 180 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Geoffrey Fisher, Syliva L. Stone, Louis Weintraub. An Interview Conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser and Louis Weintraub in 1979, 1980. (84993) $25.00
Hughes, Sally Smith, interviews conducted by. Marian E. Koshland (1921-1997): Retrospectives on a Life in Academic Science, Family and Community Activities. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 2003. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, iv, 229 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents, tape guide, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.. Interviews conducted by Elaine Hughes in 1999 and 2000. Interviewees are James P. Allison, Anne H. Good, Catherine P. Koshland, Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., Douglas E. Koshland, James M. Koshland, Hogh O. McDevitt and Gail Koshland Wachtel. (84983) $25.00
Koshland, Lucile Heming. Lucile Heming Koshland. Citizen Participation in Government. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1971. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in frontispiece photo (original photo), iv, iv, 80 pp., b/w photos, three documentary appendices, index. Obituary in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. An Interview Conducted by Harriet Nathan. (84974) $25.00
Koshland, Robert J. Robert J. Koshland. Volunteer Community Service in Health and Welfare California Jewish Community Series. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1983. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, vi, xii, 313 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents, Koshland Genealogy. Robert J. Koshland Family Information, "Guide for Planning a District Hospital," "Meeting the Need For Hospital Beds," index. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Maurice B. Hexter and Martin A. Paley. Interviews conducted by Elaine Dorfman in 1980, 1981.. (84973) $25.00
Kuhn, Marshall H. Marshall H. Kuhn. Catalyst and Teacher; San Francisco Jewish and Community Leader, 1934-1978. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, 1978. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xxii, 365 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With Introductions by Alyson Kuhn, Richard M. Leonard, Harold L. Levy. An Interview Conducted by Elaine Dorfman in 1977 and 1978. San Francisco Jews of Eastern European Origin, 1880-1940: A Community Oral History Project. California Jewish Heritage Series. Kuhn was very active in Jewish Welfare Federation in San Francisco as well as Temple Emanu-El in the period between the 1920s and the 1970s. He was employed as an educator and principal at both Emanu-El and Peninsula Temple Beth El. (84931) $18.00
Levison, Alice Gerstle. Alice Gerstle Levison: Family Reminiscences. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1967. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in original photo, iv, 142 pp., tipped-in original b/w photos by Ruth Teiser, partial index. Tipped-in photo copy of Gerstle's obituary on the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. An Interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser. (84992) $25.00
Lowdermilk, Walter Clay. Walter Clay Lowdermilk. Soil, Forest, and Water Conservation and Reclamation in China, Israel, Africa, and the United States. In Two Volumes. Berkeley, University of California, Bancroft Library/ Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, 1969. Quartos, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped-in b/w frontispiece original photo, xxxix, 265, 696-704 single-sided pp., one page of original b/w photos, index + tipped-in b/w frontispiece original photo, xxii-xxxix, 266-705 pp., tipped-in original b/w photo, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Foreword by Senator Carl Hayden. An Interview conducted by Malca Chall. (84956) $50.00
Lowenberg, William J. William J. Lowenberg. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1983-84. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1996. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, viii, viii, 164 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Roselyne C. Swig. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1993. (84975) $25.00
Magnin, Edgar F. Edgar F. Magnin: Leader and Personality. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo (original photo tipped in), xiii, 320 pp., original b/w photos tipped-in, reproductions of a few newspaper clippings, program for a dinner in honor of Magnin at the Wilshire Avenue Synagogue bound in, abbreviated biography of Rabbi Magnin, a couple of reprints of LA Times articles bound in, reproductions of Magnin's correspondence related to General George S. Brown, index. Hardbound. Very Good. An Interview conducted by Malca Chall. With an introduction by Rabbi Samson H. Levey. Copy No. 5. The product of a San Francisco childhood and an education at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Magnin assumed pulpits in Stockton and in Los Angeles at Temple B'nai B'rith before assuming the primary tasks of his life, the pulpit at Temple Wilshire Boulevard. He was a central figure in Jewish Los Angeles for over forty years. (84935) $40.00
Myers, Laurence E. Laurence E. Myers. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1986-1988. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1993. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, v, x, 155 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Jerome I. Braun. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1992. (84976) $25.00
Rinder, Rose. Rose Rinder. Music, Prayer and Religious Leadership. Temple Emanu-El, 1913-1969. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1971. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped-in original frontispiece photo, vi, vi, 185 pp., tipped in original b/w photos, documents, index. With copies of obituaries in an envelope of pasted down to the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Rabbi Louis I. Newman. An Interview Conducted by Malca Chall. (85047) $25.00
Salz, Helen A. Helen A. Salz: Sketches of an Improbably Ninety Years. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Project, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in frontispiece original photo, vi, xvi, 272 pp., a half dozen pages of original b/w photos, reproductions of articles, index. With a reproduction of the SF Chronicle obituary in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Ernest Besig. An Interview Conducted by Suzanne Reiss. Copy. No. 5. (84965) $20.00
Schnier, Jacques. Jacques Schneir: A Sculptor's Odyssey. California Jewish Community Interview Series of the Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Project, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1987. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in color frontispiece original photo, vi, xi, 316 pp., b/w photos, resume, list of publications, Exhibit catalog bound-in, reproductions of newspaper articles, index. With a reproduction of the SF Chrinicle obituary in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. With an additional color catalog and some newspaper clippings of obituaries in an envelope pasted onto one of the later pages. Hardbound. Very Good. Preface by Seymour Fromer. With Introductions by Dorothy Lilienthal Schnier and Gregg L. McKee. An Interview Conducted by Suzanne Reiss in 1986. (84966) $25.00
Shirpser, Clara. Clara Shirpser. One Woman's Role in Democratic Party Politics: National, California, and Local, 1950-1973. In Two Volumes. Volume One Only. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xiii, x, 338 pp., b/w photos, tape guide, documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Alan Cranston. An Interview conducted by Malca Chall. (85013) $25.00
Sinton, Edgar. Edgar Sinton: Jewish and Community Service in San Francisco: A Family Tradition. California Jewish History Series. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1978. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo [original photo], viii, xiii, 224 pp., b/w photos, reproductions of newspaper articles, index. With two pages of reproductions of obituaries in a tipped-in envelope on the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Ernest H. Winter. An Interview conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser. Copy. No. 6. (84939) $20.00
Sinton, Robert E. Robert E. Sinton: President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1967-1968. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, v, xv, 124 pp., b/w photos, reproductions of newspaper articles, index, tipped-in philanthropy related flyer . Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Rabbi Brian Lurie, Louis Weintraub, and Phyllis Cook. An Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser in 1990 and 1991. Copy. No. 6. Robert Sinton was the son or Edgar Sinton. (84940) $20.00
Steinhart, John H. John H. Steinhart. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1969-1970. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1992. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, vi, xiii, 107 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Louis Weintraub and Melvin M. Swig. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1990 and 1991. (84972) $25.00
Stern, Gerd. From Beat Scene to Psychedelic Multimedia Artist in San Francisco and Beyond, 1948-1978. Berkeley, California, The Regents of the University of California, 2001. Quarto, blue cloth with white lettering, x, 399 pp., b/w photos, tape guide, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Introduction by Ivan Majdrakoff. Interviews Conducted by Victoria Morris Byerly in 1996. (84927) $25.00
Stone, Sylvia L. Sylvia L. Stone. Lifelong Volunteer in San Francisco. California Jewish Community Series. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1983. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, v, xix, 135 pp., b/w photos, family tree, meditations, scripts, index., newspaper clippings of obituaries in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Rabbi Joseph Asher, Miggs Post, and Bernice Scharlach. An interview conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1982. Copy No. 5. (84971) $25.00
Swig, Melvin M. Melvin M. Swig. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1971-1972. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xiii, 229 pp., b/w photos, index, images of press clippings. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Donald H. Seller and Robert E. Sinton. Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser. "Swig was a real estate developer and philanthropist, in San Francisco and New York. He was heir to the Fairmont Hotel chain, and former chairman of the Swig, Weiler & Dinner Development Company, of San Francisco and Manhattan, a family-owned real estate company with holdings including the Fairmont Hotel." Wikipedia. Swig was a controversial leader of the pro-development forces in San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s. (84932) $18.00
Treguboff, Sanford M. Sanford M. Tregubooff: Adminstrtion of Jewish Philanthropy in San Francisco. California Jewish Community Oral History Series. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1988. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, v, xvii, 243 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Including interview with Frances D. Green, Edward Nathan, Florette W. Pomeroy, Elizabeth K. Treguboff, Ernest H. Weiner, and Louis Weintraub. With introduction y Robert E. Sinton and Henry L. Zucker. Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser 1984 and 1986. Eulogies by John R. May, Robert E. Sinton and Rabbi Robert Kirschner. (84970) $25.00
Weintraub, Louis E. Administration of the San Francisco Jewish Welfare Fund [Federation], 1970-1975. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1996. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, viii, xiii, 149 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Introductions by Frances D. Green and Robert E. Sinton. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1994. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Louis Weintraub discusses his family background in New York and El Paso, education at the University of Pennsylvania and U.S. Army service, being Western Regional Consultant of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, the merger of Federation of Jewish Charities and Jewish Welfare Fund, serving as Executive Director and Executive Vice President of the the Jewish Welfare Fund (now the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, Marin, and Sonoma Counties) and related activities. (84938) $20.00
Zellerbach, William Joseph and Nathan, Edward. Zellerbach Family Fund Innovations in Support of Human Services and the Arts. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xi, 269 pp., index, fold-out chart of The Zellerbach Family Fund - Organizational Structure which includes the amounts supplied to the various grantees. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Robert E. Sinton. Interviews conducted by Gabrielle Morris. With additional comments by Beverly Abbott and Janice Mirikitani. History of of Bay Area Philanthropy Series. (84933) $25.00
END
A few interviews of significant Jewish figures were conducted in the 1950s and 1960s. Seymour Fromer was probably responsible for the eventual involvement and co-production of these interviews which became more numerous in the 1970 and continue to this day. This became the series, Jewish Community Leaders. In the 1980s a second more focused series entitled, Jewish Community Federation began.
If journalism is the first draft of history, oral history is a close second draft. It is an interesting source because one gets the sense of the the thought processes and priorities of the interviewees. Not all of the information that they provide is reliable or true and the variations between accounts are valuable.
Many, but not all, of these accounts are also available online in a varying selection of formats. However, printed versions of texts are much easier and more pleasant than reading things on the a screen. Many of the older volumes contain original documents and photos that reproduce less well online. Hollander Books offer a large but incomplete selection of the oral histories from the two Jewish series as well as a small selection of additional oral histories not part of the Jewish series.
Our normal practice is to offer illustrations of the boards or title pages of the books offered. However, these volumes are all bound in a relatively uniformed manor and with only minor variations in the typography of the title-pages.
Altman, Ludwig. Ludwig Altman. A Well-Tempered Musician's Unfinished Journey Through Life. California Jewish Community Oral History Series. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1990. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, ix, 190 pp., b/w photos, documentary appendices, tipped in color photo of Altman, copies of documents, index. Obituaries in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Dr. Robert Kirschner. Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser and Caroline Crawford in 1988. (84981) $25.00
Arnstein, Flora J. Ongoing: Poetry, Teaching, Family in San Francisco, 1885-1985. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1985. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, viii, vi, 254 pp., b/w photos, documents, index. With copies of obituaries in an envelope of pasted down to the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Shirley Kaufman. An Interview Conducted by Suzanne B. Riess 1984-1985. (85046) $25.00
Arnstein, Lawrence. Lawrence Arnstein: Community Service in California, Public Health and Social Welfare. Including an Interview with Mrs. Flora Jacobi Arnstein of the Presideo Open School of San Francisco, and Progressive Education. Berkeley, University of California, General Library/ Berkeley, Regional Cultural History Project, 1964. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in color photo of Lawrence and Flora Arnstein as a frontispiece, tipped in four page pamphlet, "Honorary Life Membership: American Social Hygiene Association Presented to Lawrence Arnstein 1956," xiii, 292 pp (single-sided), tipped in cover and single page from Search Magazine, August 1952 with Arnstein on the cover, pamphlet "Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 121, Adopted in May 15, 1957 - Relative to congratulating and commending Lawrence Arnstein in the field of public health," index. Newspaper clippings of two obituaries for Arnstein who died in 1979 at 98. Hardbound. Very Good. An interview conducted by Edna Tartaul Daniel. Arnstein was known as the most vocal advocate for Public Health in the US and was referred to as "Mr. Public Health. Flora Arnstein, his wife, was an educator and a poet. They were members of San Francisco's old German-Jewish circle. Arnstein's recollections of education at University of California; work in his father's woolen business; service on the San Francisco Board of Health and with San Francisco Social Hygiene Association; his long career in community service; sponsorship of legislation for establishment of School of Public Health at University of California. (84930) $35.00
Braun, Jerome I. Jerome I. Braun. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1979-1980. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1996. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, x, 130 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Rabbi Brian Lurie. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1994. (84995) $25.00
Feldman, Jesse. Jesse Feldman. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1973-1974. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, iv, xiii, 77 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introductions by Rabbi Brian Lurie and Murray J. Waldman. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1990. (84979) $25.00
Fleishhacker, Mortimer and Janet Choynski. Mortimer Fleischhacker, Janet Choynski Fleischhacker: Family, Business, and the San Francisco Community. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photos (original photos), vi, xii, 412 pp., several pages of original b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Allan B. Jacobs. Interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun. Copy No. 5. (84978) $25.00
Fromm, Alfred. Alfred Fromm: Wines, Music, and Lifelong Education, with Alfred Fromm: Marketing California Wine and Brandy. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1988, 1984. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, 207, viii, 57 pp., documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Rabbi Brian Lurie. Interviews conducted by Elaine Dorfman and Caroline Crawford in 1986 and 1987. And Including Interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser in 1984. With an Introduction by Leon D. Adams. (84996) $25.00
Gerstley, James Mack. James Mack Gerstley. Executive, U.S. Borax and Chemical Corporation: Trustee, Pomona College; Civic Leader, San Francisco Asian Art Museum. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, iv, xiv, 240 pp., documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Elizabeth Lilienthal Gerstley and Norman J. Travis. Interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser and Eleanot Swent in 1990. (84982) $25.00
Goldman, Richard N. Richard N. Goldman. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1981-1982. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1993. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, xvii, 146 pp., b/w photos, index, images of press clippings. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Brian Lurie, Susan Goldman Gelman, John D. Goldman and Douglas E. Goldman, M.D. Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser in 1992. (85045) $25.00
Goldman, Rhoda H. and Richard N. Experience and Adventure in the Goldman Charitable Funds. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1994. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xvi, xviii, 237 pp., b/w photos, tipped-in color photo, reproductions of newspaper clippings. Copy no. 16. Hardbound. Very Good. Interviews conducted by Gabrielle Morris in 1990. With Introductions by Ira Michael Heyman and Duane Silverstein. History of of Bay Area Philanthropy Series. The Goldman were heirs to the Levi-Strauss fortune. They were significant philanthropists and have passed that heritage on to the next generations. (84934) $25.00
Green, Frances D. Frances D. Greene. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1975-1976. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1996. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, x, 130 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Rabbi Brian Lurie. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1994. (84985) $25.00
Haas, Elise Stern. Elise Stern Haas: The Appreciation of Quality. California Jewish Community Series. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1979. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, b/w frontispiece photo, iv, x, 210 pp., b/w phpts, documents, index, photocopy of Elise Hass' obituary laid-in. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Meyer Friedman, M.D. and Henry T. Hopkins. An interview conducted by Harriet Nathan in 1972. With "A Personal Note to My Children," by Elise Haas. (84984) $25.00
Haas, Peter. Peter Haas: A Life. In His Own Words, With Commentary by Friends and Associates. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 2003. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, 124 single-sided pp., color photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Edited by Linda E. Norton, Senior Editor. Based on interviews conducted by Richard Candida Smith, Leah McGarrigle and Eleanor Glaser in 2000-2002. (84937) $18.00
Haas, Walter A., Sr.; Koshland, Daniel E., Sr.; Haas, Walter, Jr. and Haas, Peter E. Levi Strauss & Co.: Tailors to the World. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1976. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, xiii, frontispiece photo, iv, ii, xv, 83 pp.,iii, frontispiece photo, i, 57 pp., frontispiece photo,, iii, i, 61 pp., frontispiece photo, ii, i, 94, pp.,b/w photos, 46 reproductions of newspaper articles and additional documents, indexes, with two newspaper clippings of articles about Peter Haas in a tipped-in envelope on the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Rabbi Brian Lurie, Louis Weintraub, and Phyllis Cook. An Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser in 1990 and 1991. Copy. No. 6. Robert Sinton was the son or Edgar Sinton. (84941) $20.00
Haas, Walter A., Sr. Walter A. Haas, Sr.: Civic, Philanthropic and Business Leadership. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, iv, vi, 163 single-sided pp., tipped-in b/w original photo of Elise and Walter Haas, Sr., b/w photos, reproductions of newspaper articles, tipped in pamphlet for the Strawberry Canyon Recreational Area, genealogical chart, index. With nine original newspaper clippings and obituaries in a tipped in envelope on the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Clark Kerr. An Interview conducted by Harriet Nathan. Copy No. 5. (84955) $25.00
Hart, Ruth Arnstein. Concern for the Individual: The Community YWCA and Other Berkeley Organizations. Volunteer Leadership Series. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1978. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, iv, viii, 319 pp., b/w photos, documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Ruth Plainfield, and Memorials by Alvin I Fine, Ira Michael Heyman, Charles Muscatine. An Interview Conducted by Gabrielle Morris. (84994) $25.00
Hilborn, Walter S. Walter S. Hilborn. Reflections on Legal Practice and Jewish Community Leadership: New York and Los Angeles, 1907-1973. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1974. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped-in copy of an obituary on the front pastedown endpaper, tipped in b/w frontispiece photo, x, xix pp., genealogical table, 227 pp., tipped in original b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introductions by Alfred Gottschalk and Lester Wm. Roth. An Interview Conducted by Malca Chall. Copy No. 4. (85048) $25.00
Hirsch, Marcel. Marcel Hirsch: The Responsibilities and Rewards of Involvement. California Jewish Community Series. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1981. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, x, 180 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Geoffrey Fisher, Syliva L. Stone, Louis Weintraub. An Interview Conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser and Louis Weintraub in 1979, 1980. (84993) $25.00
Hughes, Sally Smith, interviews conducted by. Marian E. Koshland (1921-1997): Retrospectives on a Life in Academic Science, Family and Community Activities. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 2003. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, iv, 229 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents, tape guide, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.. Interviews conducted by Elaine Hughes in 1999 and 2000. Interviewees are James P. Allison, Anne H. Good, Catherine P. Koshland, Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., Douglas E. Koshland, James M. Koshland, Hogh O. McDevitt and Gail Koshland Wachtel. (84983) $25.00
Koshland, Lucile Heming. Lucile Heming Koshland. Citizen Participation in Government. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1971. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in frontispiece photo (original photo), iv, iv, 80 pp., b/w photos, three documentary appendices, index. Obituary in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. An Interview Conducted by Harriet Nathan. (84974) $25.00
Koshland, Robert J. Robert J. Koshland. Volunteer Community Service in Health and Welfare California Jewish Community Series. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1983. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, vi, xii, 313 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents, Koshland Genealogy. Robert J. Koshland Family Information, "Guide for Planning a District Hospital," "Meeting the Need For Hospital Beds," index. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Maurice B. Hexter and Martin A. Paley. Interviews conducted by Elaine Dorfman in 1980, 1981.. (84973) $25.00
Kuhn, Marshall H. Marshall H. Kuhn. Catalyst and Teacher; San Francisco Jewish and Community Leader, 1934-1978. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, 1978. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xxii, 365 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With Introductions by Alyson Kuhn, Richard M. Leonard, Harold L. Levy. An Interview Conducted by Elaine Dorfman in 1977 and 1978. San Francisco Jews of Eastern European Origin, 1880-1940: A Community Oral History Project. California Jewish Heritage Series. Kuhn was very active in Jewish Welfare Federation in San Francisco as well as Temple Emanu-El in the period between the 1920s and the 1970s. He was employed as an educator and principal at both Emanu-El and Peninsula Temple Beth El. (84931) $18.00
Levison, Alice Gerstle. Alice Gerstle Levison: Family Reminiscences. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1967. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in original photo, iv, 142 pp., tipped-in original b/w photos by Ruth Teiser, partial index. Tipped-in photo copy of Gerstle's obituary on the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. An Interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser. (84992) $25.00
Lowdermilk, Walter Clay. Walter Clay Lowdermilk. Soil, Forest, and Water Conservation and Reclamation in China, Israel, Africa, and the United States. In Two Volumes. Berkeley, University of California, Bancroft Library/ Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, 1969. Quartos, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped-in b/w frontispiece original photo, xxxix, 265, 696-704 single-sided pp., one page of original b/w photos, index + tipped-in b/w frontispiece original photo, xxii-xxxix, 266-705 pp., tipped-in original b/w photo, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Foreword by Senator Carl Hayden. An Interview conducted by Malca Chall. (84956) $50.00
Lowenberg, William J. William J. Lowenberg. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1983-84. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1996. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, viii, viii, 164 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Roselyne C. Swig. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1993. (84975) $25.00
Magnin, Edgar F. Edgar F. Magnin: Leader and Personality. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo (original photo tipped in), xiii, 320 pp., original b/w photos tipped-in, reproductions of a few newspaper clippings, program for a dinner in honor of Magnin at the Wilshire Avenue Synagogue bound in, abbreviated biography of Rabbi Magnin, a couple of reprints of LA Times articles bound in, reproductions of Magnin's correspondence related to General George S. Brown, index. Hardbound. Very Good. An Interview conducted by Malca Chall. With an introduction by Rabbi Samson H. Levey. Copy No. 5. The product of a San Francisco childhood and an education at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Magnin assumed pulpits in Stockton and in Los Angeles at Temple B'nai B'rith before assuming the primary tasks of his life, the pulpit at Temple Wilshire Boulevard. He was a central figure in Jewish Los Angeles for over forty years. (84935) $40.00
Myers, Laurence E. Laurence E. Myers. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1986-1988. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1993. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, v, x, 155 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Jerome I. Braun. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1992. (84976) $25.00
Rinder, Rose. Rose Rinder. Music, Prayer and Religious Leadership. Temple Emanu-El, 1913-1969. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1971. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped-in original frontispiece photo, vi, vi, 185 pp., tipped in original b/w photos, documents, index. With copies of obituaries in an envelope of pasted down to the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Rabbi Louis I. Newman. An Interview Conducted by Malca Chall. (85047) $25.00
Salz, Helen A. Helen A. Salz: Sketches of an Improbably Ninety Years. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Project, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in frontispiece original photo, vi, xvi, 272 pp., a half dozen pages of original b/w photos, reproductions of articles, index. With a reproduction of the SF Chronicle obituary in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Ernest Besig. An Interview Conducted by Suzanne Reiss. Copy. No. 5. (84965) $20.00
Schnier, Jacques. Jacques Schneir: A Sculptor's Odyssey. California Jewish Community Interview Series of the Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Project, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1987. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in color frontispiece original photo, vi, xi, 316 pp., b/w photos, resume, list of publications, Exhibit catalog bound-in, reproductions of newspaper articles, index. With a reproduction of the SF Chrinicle obituary in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. With an additional color catalog and some newspaper clippings of obituaries in an envelope pasted onto one of the later pages. Hardbound. Very Good. Preface by Seymour Fromer. With Introductions by Dorothy Lilienthal Schnier and Gregg L. McKee. An Interview Conducted by Suzanne Reiss in 1986. (84966) $25.00
Shirpser, Clara. Clara Shirpser. One Woman's Role in Democratic Party Politics: National, California, and Local, 1950-1973. In Two Volumes. Volume One Only. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xiii, x, 338 pp., b/w photos, tape guide, documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Alan Cranston. An Interview conducted by Malca Chall. (85013) $25.00
Sinton, Edgar. Edgar Sinton: Jewish and Community Service in San Francisco: A Family Tradition. California Jewish History Series. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1978. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo [original photo], viii, xiii, 224 pp., b/w photos, reproductions of newspaper articles, index. With two pages of reproductions of obituaries in a tipped-in envelope on the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Ernest H. Winter. An Interview conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser. Copy. No. 6. (84939) $20.00
Sinton, Robert E. Robert E. Sinton: President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1967-1968. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, v, xv, 124 pp., b/w photos, reproductions of newspaper articles, index, tipped-in philanthropy related flyer . Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Rabbi Brian Lurie, Louis Weintraub, and Phyllis Cook. An Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser in 1990 and 1991. Copy. No. 6. Robert Sinton was the son or Edgar Sinton. (84940) $20.00
Steinhart, John H. John H. Steinhart. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1969-1970. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1992. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, vi, xiii, 107 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Louis Weintraub and Melvin M. Swig. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1990 and 1991. (84972) $25.00
Stern, Gerd. From Beat Scene to Psychedelic Multimedia Artist in San Francisco and Beyond, 1948-1978. Berkeley, California, The Regents of the University of California, 2001. Quarto, blue cloth with white lettering, x, 399 pp., b/w photos, tape guide, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Introduction by Ivan Majdrakoff. Interviews Conducted by Victoria Morris Byerly in 1996. (84927) $25.00
Stone, Sylvia L. Sylvia L. Stone. Lifelong Volunteer in San Francisco. California Jewish Community Series. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1983. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, v, xix, 135 pp., b/w photos, family tree, meditations, scripts, index., newspaper clippings of obituaries in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Rabbi Joseph Asher, Miggs Post, and Bernice Scharlach. An interview conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1982. Copy No. 5. (84971) $25.00
Swig, Melvin M. Melvin M. Swig. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1971-1972. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xiii, 229 pp., b/w photos, index, images of press clippings. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Donald H. Seller and Robert E. Sinton. Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser. "Swig was a real estate developer and philanthropist, in San Francisco and New York. He was heir to the Fairmont Hotel chain, and former chairman of the Swig, Weiler & Dinner Development Company, of San Francisco and Manhattan, a family-owned real estate company with holdings including the Fairmont Hotel." Wikipedia. Swig was a controversial leader of the pro-development forces in San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s. (84932) $18.00
Treguboff, Sanford M. Sanford M. Tregubooff: Adminstrtion of Jewish Philanthropy in San Francisco. California Jewish Community Oral History Series. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1988. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, v, xvii, 243 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Including interview with Frances D. Green, Edward Nathan, Florette W. Pomeroy, Elizabeth K. Treguboff, Ernest H. Weiner, and Louis Weintraub. With introduction y Robert E. Sinton and Henry L. Zucker. Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser 1984 and 1986. Eulogies by John R. May, Robert E. Sinton and Rabbi Robert Kirschner. (84970) $25.00
Weintraub, Louis E. Administration of the San Francisco Jewish Welfare Fund [Federation], 1970-1975. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1996. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, viii, xiii, 149 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Introductions by Frances D. Green and Robert E. Sinton. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1994. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Louis Weintraub discusses his family background in New York and El Paso, education at the University of Pennsylvania and U.S. Army service, being Western Regional Consultant of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, the merger of Federation of Jewish Charities and Jewish Welfare Fund, serving as Executive Director and Executive Vice President of the the Jewish Welfare Fund (now the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, Marin, and Sonoma Counties) and related activities. (84938) $20.00
Zellerbach, William Joseph and Nathan, Edward. Zellerbach Family Fund Innovations in Support of Human Services and the Arts. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xi, 269 pp., index, fold-out chart of The Zellerbach Family Fund - Organizational Structure which includes the amounts supplied to the various grantees. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Robert E. Sinton. Interviews conducted by Gabrielle Morris. With additional comments by Beverly Abbott and Janice Mirikitani. History of of Bay Area Philanthropy Series. (84933) $25.00
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