In August 1853, an American-born Sephardic Jew, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, accepted John Fremont’s invitation to join his fifth expedition to find the best overland route to California. A Baltimore artis
The nation's thirty-first state emerged early as one of its most diverse as people immigrated to the west. California's indigenous tribes were forced off their lands first by Spanish settlers, then by
Despite being the archetypal diasporic people, modern Jews have most often been studied as citizens and subjects of single nation states and empires—as American, Polish, Russian, or German Jews. This
