Since the first Jews were counted in L.A.'s census of 1850, Jewish contributions to the city's institutions and development have been numerous.
There’s an easy formula for sizing up Los Angeles as the destination of choice for the peoples of the Earth: “There are more living in Los Angeles than anywhere else on the planet except .”
The first known among them was a German-born tailor, Jacob Frankfort, who got here in 1841, well before the Gold Rush and. He came overland from New Mexico with a wagon train expedition called the Rowland Workman party; he was a tailor and a rifleman, both handy skills in the new frontier. , owners of dry goods and other businesses in the same building near the old plaza, where they slept in their back rooms. Some of these men and those who followed became the founding fathers of modern Los Angeles, and their businesses became the city’s leading banking institutions andThey came here as so many millions came to California, intent on writing their own futures on what Americans regarded as a blank slate of a place.
, was the forebear of today’s immense Cedars-Sinai medical network. Not long thereafter, the Workmen’s Circle, a cooperative association of Jewish workers, was organized in 1909; it created institutions to serve poorer Jewish emigres arriving in numbers from eastern Europe. Among them was athat became the seed for today’s City of Hope, the renowned cancer treatment and research center.
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