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n many ways, the history
of Cheyenne, Wyo., is like
any other small Jewish
community in America.
German Jews came and es-
tablished many institutions
and industries in the mid-
18 0 Os, followed by their
Eastern European counter-
parts early this century, and
yet another wave during the
1940s, bringing the number
of Jews to more than 700.
The community had a syn-
agogue — Mt. Sinai — a
ritual bath and kosher but-
cher, and the same issues of
assimilation and intermar-
riage that characterized
most of American Jewish
life.
But then again, it was also
Wyoming, die-hard cowboy
country and the last place
one would expect to see a bar
mitzvah on a sub-freezing,
big-sky day.
"Wherever I traveled, peo-
ple said there were no Jews
in Wyoming," said Penny
Wolin, a photographer and
"social documentarian" who
created the exhibit on
Wyoming Jews showing
through Oct. 25 at the Na-
tional Museum of American
History in Washington, D.C.
Although a living example
of a Wyoming Jewish upbr-
inging, Ms. Wolin began to
wonder what kind of Jewish
upbringing she did receive
after seeing how different —
and yet how similar — Jew-
ish life was in her new home
in Los Angeles.
Her answer appears in the
100 pictures and text blocks
in the exhibit, and was elab-
orated on during a phone
interview from her home
north of San Francisco.
"Jews throughout the
country learned to blend in,"
said Ms. Wolin, whose work
encompasses Jews in all the
Wyoming cities which have
had Jewish communities. "If
they went to San Francisco,
they got involved in shipp-
ing. If they went to Wyom-
ing, they learned to dress
Western for the rodeo and
sold hats to the cowboys. The
concept of moving into an-
other culture, of having an
identity but remaining
separate from it, happened
everywhere."
The exhibit itself, called
"Fringe of the Diaspora: The
Jews of Wyoming," is the
result of six years of work,
including hundreds of hours
of interviews with friends,
relatives, and strangers, and
many more searching
through archives and
records of the community.
Although a few hundred
Jews still live in Cheyenne,
the historic synagogue there
is no longer active; the other
Wyoming community with a
significant presence is
Laramie, home of the Uni-
versity of Wyoming, approx-
imately 40 Jewish families
and a Jewish community
center.
The exhibit, organized by
the Judah Magnes Museum
in Berkeley, Calif., has al-
ready been to the Hebrew
Union College's Skirball
Museum in Los Angeles and
the B'nai B'rith Klutznick
National Museum in Wash-
<
"The wit and
pathos of the
cowboy were
similar to
yiddishkeit."
Penny Wolin
ington, D.C. It is available
for museums or community
centers after it run at the
Smithsonian. Ms. Wolin also
hopes to publish a book on
the subject, including both
text and photos. Apart from
exploring the American
Jewish community through
one of its smaller com-
munities, Ms. Wolin also
wants to change the percep-
tion of the Wyoming Jewish
community as a joke. In fact,
her experience has been that
growing up in Cheyenne
may be more Jewishly
healthy than a place like Los
Angeles.
"We were very proud and
vocal about being Jewish.
There vvas never a question
about it, or the sense that
`Hey, I should cool it on my
Jewishness,' " said Ms.
Wolin, who left Cheyenne at
age 20 to work as a photog-
rapher in Hollywood. "When
I went to a large city, I found
that Jews were stereotyped,
even in their own com-
munities — the idea of a JAP
(Jewish-American Princess)
or the Jewish mother. That
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