Posted Aug 21, 2022, 12:48 AM
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Inveterate Angeleno
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 7,500
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Originally Posted by Docere
I'm not sure what she means about Jewish life being more "spread out" in LA than in NY. You can find Jewish concentrations all over the metro.
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She's just relating ethnography with the cities' respective cultural dynamics writ large...
"Jewish innovation and creativity in New York springs from restriction — having minimal space, being in a loud and crowded marketplace and under NYC’s legendary pressured pace, but Los Angeles provides literal open space to create, to stretch out, explore and dream."
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