History of the Jews in San Francisco

[2] The small Mexican settlement of Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco in 1847 and quickly became the most important city in the American West.

[14] The Synagogue's president wrote an article called "The Fate of European Jewry Hinges on the Turn of the Spanish Revolution" and the congregation hosted anti-fascist and anti-Nazi meetings.

[15] The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, originally founded as the Young Men's Hebrew Society in 1877, was formally incorporated in 1930.

[16] In the late 1930s, refugees arrived in San Francisco from Germany, Austria, Poland, Spain and Czechoslovakia, and the center offered them free memberships and English classes.

By the 1950s, the JCCSF was "a polyglot mixture of people, activities, services and programing" whose members came from diverse cities across the United States and many other countries.

[24] Levi Strauss left New York for San Francisco in order to supplied gold miners with sturdy denim pants.

The world-renowned blue jeans were invented by Latvian Jew Jacob W. Davis and Levi Strauss, who patented their design in 1873.

[26] The Sutro Baths, located on the north side of Ocean Beach, south of the Golden Gate Bridge, opened as the world's largest indoor swimming complex in 1896.