we are having conversation with ava kahn a local historian, expert, author on jews in california and ellen, the dwight and mar great lee professor in oregon. welcome back. >> thank you. >> we are talking about how so much of the history of the american jewish experience in the past has concentrated on jews with came to the eastern sea board and maybe the west in some ways to the south, but what took us all so long to sort of focus in the more academic manner, with books such as this on the jews of the pacific coast on the west? >> well, i think the major universities and where the jewish historians were, were in the east, and you tend to write about what you know and of course, the population centers were in the east. that is where a lot of people got off the boat so you feel sort of that's the story. and people are like us, starting to say no, hey, we are here too. you know. >> it is interesting if you look at some of the community histories, histories of places like seattle or portland or so on, a lot of the local historians will talk about how the immigrant neighbourhood was remin