Birth of a Community: Jews and the Gold Rush (1994)

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Groups of various national and ethnic origins arrived seeking their fortune; this documentary focuses on the Jewish presence in California during the Gold Rush. This feature traces the arrival of Jews in the "rough and tumble" West and follows how they settled and grew with the towns and establishing communities, which have grown to become more valuable than gold in a sense. The city which most '49ers arrived at on their way to seek gold was San Francisco, due to an earlier find of gold at Sutter's Mill, in Northern California.

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