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Originally Posted by RST500
The Bay Area seems to have a large Jewish population but also one of the most assimilated. No real Jewish enclaves like LA but I think the highest concentration of Jews is around Palo Alto and Berkeley Hills area. Marin too. Basically under the umbrella of affluent liberal Whites.
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L.A. wasn't that big in the 19th century and only about 2,500 Jews live there in 1900. It was really East European Jews in Boyle Heights and Hollywood that set the tone.
San Francisco was a big German Jewish center in the 19th century, not a big center for Yiddish-speaking East European immigrants. But AFAIK no postwar Jewish districts or suburbs developed. Most of the Jewish population now would be transplants (or a generation removed from "back east" at least) and unlike in L.A. and Miami, Jews didn't form or move into Jewish enclaves.