Ellen Eisenberg holds the Dwight and Margaret Lear Professorship in American History at Willamette University. Her published work includes five books on American Jewish history and, particularly, the history of Jews in the American West, including National Jewish Book Award finalist The First to Cry Down Injustice? Western Jews and Japanese Removal during WWII and a two-volume history of Jews in Oregon, Embracing a Western Identity: Jewish Oregonians, 1849–1950 and The Jewish Oregon Story, 1950–2015.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesPrefaceBy George J. SánchezAcknowledgmentsIntroductionBy Ellen EisenbergChapter One: White Jews of Victoria, 1858-1914By Lynne Marks and Jordan Stanger-RossChapter Two: “Negotiating Jewish Identities in Oregon: From White Pioneer to Ethnic Minority”By Ellen EisenbergChapter Three: Jewish Border Merchants between Economies of Extraction and Policing, 1848 –1910By Maxwell E. GreenbergChapter Four: Locating Jewish Youth in the L.A. Young Communist League, 1925-1940By Caroline LuceChapter Five: Unexpected Allies: David C. Marcus and his Impact on the Advancement of Civil Rights in the Mexican American Legal Landscape of Southern CaliforniaBy Genevieve CarpioChapter Six: “Intermediate Types”: Ottoman Jews and the Ambivalence of Belonging in SeattleBy Devin NaarChapter Seven: For the “Wrong” Reasons: Los Angeles Jews and BusingBy Sara SmithChapter Eight: “Sephardic Jewish persons are classified as white”: Education, Race, and Sephardic Jews in the 1970sBy Max Modiano DanielChapter Nine: Complicating Jewish Whiteness: Jews of Color in the American WestBy Bruce PhillipsContributor Biographies

“Most of these provocative essays draw on diverse scholarship and a range of primary and secondary sources. Their chronological and topic breadth is considerable, and together they make an undeniable case that in understanding the history and people of the American West—and by implication of the nation at large—the familiar dichotomy of Black and White is at once preposterous and quaint.”

Ellen Eisenberg holds the Dwight and Margaret Lear Professorship in American History at Willamette University. Her published work includes five books on American Jewish history and, particularly, the history of Jews in the American West, including National Jewish Book Award finalist The First to Cry Down Injustice? Western Jews and Japanese Removal during WWII and a two-volume history of Jews in Oregon, Embracing a Western Identity: Jewish Oregonians, 1849–1950 and The Jewish Oregon Story, 1950–2015.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesPrefaceBy George J. SánchezAcknowledgmentsIntroductionBy Ellen EisenbergChapter One: White Jews of Victoria, 1858-1914By Lynne Marks and Jordan Stanger-RossChapter Two: “Negotiating Jewish Identities in Oregon: From White Pioneer to Ethnic Minority”By Ellen EisenbergChapter Three: Jewish Border Merchants between Economies of Extraction and Policing, 1848 –1910By Maxwell E. GreenbergChapter Four: Locating Jewish Youth in the L.A. Young Communist League, 1925-1940By Caroline LuceChapter Five: Unexpected Allies: David C. Marcus and his Impact on the Advancement of Civil Rights in the Mexican American Legal Landscape of Southern CaliforniaBy Genevieve CarpioChapter Six: “Intermediate Types”: Ottoman Jews and the Ambivalence of Belonging in SeattleBy Devin NaarChapter Seven: For the “Wrong” Reasons: Los Angeles Jews and BusingBy Sara SmithChapter Eight: “Sephardic Jewish persons are classified as white”: Education, Race, and Sephardic Jews in the 1970sBy Max Modiano DanielChapter Nine: Complicating Jewish Whiteness: Jews of Color in the American WestBy Bruce PhillipsContributor Biographies

“Most of these provocative essays draw on diverse scholarship and a range of primary and secondary sources. Their chronological and topic breadth is considerable, and together they make an undeniable case that in understanding the history and people of the American West—and by implication of the nation at large—the familiar dichotomy of Black and White is at once preposterous and quaint.”

Ellen Eisenberg holds the Dwight and Margaret Lear Professorship in American History at Willamette University. Her published work includes five books on American Jewish history and, particularly, the history of Jews in the American West, including National Jewish Book Award finalist The First to Cry Down Injustice? Western Jews and Japanese Removal during WWII and a two-volume history of Jews in Oregon, Embracing a Western Identity: Jewish Oregonians, 1849–1950 and The Jewish Oregon Story, 1950–2015.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesPrefaceBy George J. SánchezAcknowledgmentsIntroductionBy Ellen EisenbergChapter One: White Jews of Victoria, 1858-1914By Lynne Marks and Jordan Stanger-RossChapter Two: “Negotiating Jewish Identities in Oregon: From White Pioneer to Ethnic Minority”By Ellen EisenbergChapter Three: Jewish Border Merchants between Economies of Extraction and Policing, 1848 –1910By Maxwell E. GreenbergChapter Four: Locating Jewish Youth in the L.A. Young Communist League, 1925-1940By Caroline LuceChapter Five: Unexpected Allies: David C. Marcus and his Impact on the Advancement of Civil Rights in the Mexican American Legal Landscape of Southern CaliforniaBy Genevieve CarpioChapter Six: “Intermediate Types”: Ottoman Jews and the Ambivalence of Belonging in SeattleBy Devin NaarChapter Seven: For the “Wrong” Reasons: Los Angeles Jews and BusingBy Sara SmithChapter Eight: “Sephardic Jewish persons are classified as white”: Education, Race, and Sephardic Jews in the 1970sBy Max Modiano DanielChapter Nine: Complicating Jewish Whiteness: Jews of Color in the American WestBy Bruce PhillipsContributor Biographies

“Most of these provocative essays draw on diverse scholarship and a range of primary and secondary sources. Their chronological and topic breadth is considerable, and together they make an undeniable case that in understanding the history and people of the American West—and by implication of the nation at large—the familiar dichotomy of Black and White is at once preposterous and quaint.”