In Search of FairfaxMain MenuThe Classical Period: 1930s-1960sThe Urban Crisis: 1960s-1970sRevitalization and Gentrification: 1980s-1990sVisualizing and Mapping FairfaxMax Baumgarten3ce5635a69ccb5339e9481dc4536fc0caff14cd2
In Search of Fairfax
1media/c1739_b92_f4_This Area.jpg2017-10-21T17:34:59-07:00Max Baumgarten3ce5635a69ccb5339e9481dc4536fc0caff14cd222033book_splash2018-01-07T17:31:34-08:00Max Baumgarten3ce5635a69ccb5339e9481dc4536fc0caff14cd2“In Search of Fairfax” explores the history of Beverly-Fairfax, a mid-city neighborhood that the Los Angeles Times has described as “the symbolic focus of Jewish life in Los Angeles,” “the city’s cultural ‘Little Israel,’” “the most Jewish stretch of pavement in Los Angeles,” and the “emotional center of Jewish life in Los Angeles.” While consistently boasting the highest concentration of Jewish residents throughout Los Angeles and a plethora of schools, religious institutions, social clubs, and storefronts that chiefly catered to Jews throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, the neighborhood attracted an array of Jewish and non-Jewish micro-communities and subcultures: upwardly mobile Jewish migrants from Chicago and New York City, lower middle class Jews from Boyle Heights, Holocaust survivors, Soviet and Middle Eastern Jewish immigrants, Chabadnics, Vietnamese refugees, middle class African American families, students attending Fairfax High School, as well as counterculture artists and activists.