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Jewish Historical Society of Oregon •
Dora Levine infront of her Portland, Oregon fish store, C. 1910:
"To sell five cents a pound carp, a quarter a pound pike; to cut
salmon, halibut, black cod, white fish — this was my life."
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SETTLING
THE WEST
A new book, We Lived There Too,"
depicts those Jews who forged westward
with their fellow immigrants.
20 CMS.
Yiddish actress Bertha Kalich starred in an English-language
play in Kansas City, Missouri, 1907.
In We Lived There Too, co-
1 authors Kenneth Libo and
Irving Howe tell the story of
the Jews who helped to settle
the American West.
Pieced together from di-
aries, memoirs, personal stor-
ies and letters, and profusely
illustrated by old newspaper
articles, photographs and
drawings, the book conveys
the gritty texture of people
who built their own vibrant
communities in the wilderness
and the vast; unsettled terri-
tories.
Libo and Howe, co-authors
of How We Lived, span the
period from 1630 to 1930 and
the area from the Eastern sea-
board to the upper reaches of
the Mississippi River, from the
Old Southwest to the High
Sierras and the Pacific Coast.
Following are excerpts from
the 352-page We Lived There
Too, printed with permission
of the publisher, St. Martin's
Press, Inc.
Merchant Adventurers
The first Jews in America
did not come in large numbers,
as the Puritans and the Cava-
liers did. Nor were they pro-
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