Jackie Krentzman is a journalist and executive producer of “American Jerusalem: Jews and the Building of San Francisco.”
World View March 24, 2014
Many people have asked me how we came up with the title for our documentary film on the history of the San Francisco Jewish community, American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco. We had been debating a number of potential titles ('They Built This City', anyone?), but nothing... Read more
World View October 14, 2013
In 2010 I was hired by the San Francisco Jewish Family and Children Services to write its 160th anniversary book. In the course of conducting the research I discovered an astounding story—a story that, unbelievably, despite its power, scope, drama and national implications, has been buried for nearly a... Read more
Arts July 15, 2013
In the late 1980s, after graduating college, I moved to San Francisco. I had grown up in a suburb of Cleveland Ohio— where my public high school was 95% Jewish. I immediately loved San Francisco and felt at home. It was new and exciting, and above all, different. It took... Read more