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The Holocaust Library and Research Center of San Francisco, opened in 1979. A lasting memorial in San Francisco: "Holocaust," which was dedicated in Lincoln Park in November 1984, was created by the sculptor George Segal. The Holocaust Center of Northern California is in collaboration with the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) is a non-collecting museum at 736 Mission Street at Yerba Buena Lane in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The museum, which was founded in 1984, is located in the historic Jessie Street Substation, which was gutted and its interior redesigned by Daniel Libeskind , along ...
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.
The Bush Street Temple is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, and former Buddhist temple, located at 1881 Bush Street in San Francisco, California, in the United States. The building has also been used as a Baptist church, and, since 2003, was repurposed as an aged care residential facility.
San Francisco Bay Area. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. "Churches and temples". Discovering San Francisco. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. "Congregation Sherith Israel records, 1851–2003". Bancroft Library Online Archive of California at UC Berkeley. "Sherith Israel records, 1851–2000". Judah L. Magnes Museum at UC ...
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival has slated two world premieres and one international premiere for its 2024 edition, which runs July 18-Aug. 4. This year’s full lineup, which will be ...
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco is on California Street at Presidio Avenue in Presidio Heights. [44] The 1933 building was designed in the Mediterranean Revival Style with Art Deco details by Arthur Brown Jr. [45] The neighborhood was the site of the murder of Paul Stine by the Zodiac Killer near the corner of Washington and Cherry.