Lévy, Daniel. Les Français en Californie [“The French in California.”]

The numerous references to French Jews makes the case for their significant contribution to Californian civic affairs in the nineteenth century. Thus, we read of Rabbi Elkan Cohn who delivered a French eulogy for a former French army veteran who belonged to his San Francisco congregation. Other San Francisco residents mentioned are: Lazard Freres, Sylvain and David Cahn, Moise Cerf, and Alex Weill. Los Angelenes include: Nathan Cahn, Joseph Coblentz, Eugene Mayer, Ed Cahen, P.N. Roth, Constant Meyer and Leon Loeb. Finally, we have Lazard Lion of San Jose. The author Daniel Levy, was Cantor of San Francisco's Congregation Emanuel in the 1850s-60s. See N.B. Stern, California Jewish HIstory (1967), p. 64; S.G. Cogan, The Jews of San Francisco (1973), p. 44, no. 239; I. H. Sharfman, The First Rabbi - Origins of Conflict between Orthodox & Reform: Jewish Polemic Warfare in pre-Civil War America (1988), p. 400.