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- Title
JEWS IN THE GOLD RUSH: Thirty-Seven Years of Jewish Shopkeepers and Postmasters in Butte County, California.
- Authors
Levenson, Rosaline
- Abstract
The article presents a historical review of the labors of the four Jewish merchants who served as postmasters of Magalia, a 19th-century gold mining town in Butte County, Northern California, for more than thirty-seven years starting in 1867. It highlights the significant contributions of Hirsch Cohn, his younger brother Levi, Simon Marks and Max Goodday in the commercial and agricultural growth in Magalia which helped them obtain the town's postmastership during the course of its establishment. It also recounts the shifting patterns of their business operations as illustrated in the supervision of the stores which were handed down to their Jewish and non-Jewish families and relatives.
- Subjects
MAGALIA (Calif.); BUTTE County (Calif.); NORTHERN California; CALIFORNIA; JEWISH merchants; POSTMASTERS; GOLD mining
- Publication
Western States Jewish History, 1993, Vol 25, Issue 3, p227
- ISSN
0043-4221
- Publication type
Article