Jewish Settlement in SoCal and San Diego

Featured Speaker: Joellyn Zollman, Ph.D.

This lecture compares Jewish settlement in Los Angeles and San Diego. After considering southern California as a region in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, we’ll focus on San Diego’s Jewish life. We will look at pioneer Jewish settlement and activities and the factors that contributed to the slow but steady growth of the community across the twentieth century, including the weather, the military, and the establishment of UCSD.
 

Presenter Biography

Joellyn Zollman, PhD, writes, teaches, and curates content about American Jewish life. Locally, Zollman has taught classes on Jewish history, American religion, and religious art and architecture at San Diego State University, UCSD, and the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture. She curated the 2018 anchor exhibit, “Celebrate San Diego! The History and Heritage of San Diego’s Jewish Community,” at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park. More recently, Zollman has organized and led several travel seminars on American Jewish heritage, including a trip earlier this year to the Bay Area and a future one to the East Coast.
 

Coordinator: Nancy Neigus