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Originally Posted by Docere
It seems like that the city of Cleveland has pretty much been a working class city for a long time.
Perhaps a reflection of this, by the early 1960s, Jews (who had become a middle and upper middle class group) had completely abandoned the city of Cleveland.
https://teachingcleveland.org/clevel...-vincent-1962/
Even Detroit proper (much larger) had a Jewish section until the late 1960s I think. |
Yeah, I think Jews vacated Cleveland's city proper earlier than any other major U.S. city. By 1960 they were gone. Detroit had a sizable Jewish community in city proper until about 1970, and the largest synagogue in Metro Detroit remained until about 1980 (though by that point, the membership was overwhelmingly suburban).
Much of this is just a function of differing city sizes, however. Cleveland has smaller limits, and, if anything, Cleveland Jews stayed closer to the core (Cleveland Heights). The post-1960 Detroit Jewish population was in an area (Livernois-7 Mile) generally more suburban than Cleveland Heights. The last truly urban Detroit Jewish neighborhood was Dexter Davison, which except for some grannies was vacated by around 1960.