History of the Jews in the American West

The 19th century saw Jews, like many other people, moving to the American West. == Early history of Jewish congregations and community == === San Francisco, California === In 1849, the first Jewish service of San Francisco began as a minyan at Lewis Abraham Franklin's tent store on Jackson Street at Kearny Street, with 30 Jews from Poland, Prussia, Bavaria and the Eastern United States, and was initially Orthodox.

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