Jewish History in Petaluma, California

This is a compelling story of the socially and politically lively Jewish chicken ranchers and egg farmers in Petaluma, California. PDF: petaluma-jewish-community-oral-history

Kenneth Kahn, author of Comrades and Chicken Ranchers–The Story of a California Jewish Community, tells of the aspirations of Eastern European Jews to own their own land that started a great movement of Jewish agricultural settlement in Palestine and the United States. Part of this trend and perhaps one of the the best known examples was the settlement in Petaluma in the first couple of decades of the twentieth-century. This is a compelling story of the socially and politically lively Jewish chicken ranchers and egg farmers in Petaluma.