| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

A Homeland in the West: Utah Jews Remember. By Ellen Hallet Stone. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2001. xvi + 500 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

Eileen Hallet Stone's A Homeland in the West is a large book on a small subject. This handsomely formatted, richly illustrated 500-page tome contains some sixty-five personal narratives. The approach is folkloric, impressionistic, and celebratory. Hallet's intent is to evoke "authentic voices," and she demurs in the preface: "This book is not a history of Utah Jews" (pp. xii, xi). 1

The reader will find surprising portraits that break the stereotype of Jews as an urban, mercantile people. Solomon Carvalho, a graphic artist of Spanish-Portuguese descent, accompanied Fremont on his 1853 expedition. Simon Bamberger in 1916 became the first Democrat and non-Mormon to be elected governor. And there is Russian-born Anna Rich Marks, a foul-mouthed mine owner, who sealed a deal by pulling a gun. Jews recall heading to the hills to hike, fish, and hunt. Most poignant are the accounts of young immigrants from urban ghettos, who struggled, and failed, to establish an agrarian colony in Clarion in 1911. Such stories suggest a distinctly western acculturation, yet A Homeland in the West fails to establish such a context. . . .

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