A Look Back at the History of Hanukkah in Los Angeles
According to the history , the first Jewish settlers arrived in the tiny, Wild West pueblo of Los Angeles in the late 1840s. In 1851 (the year after California became an American state), census workers recorded eight Jewish citizens in Los Angeles, a town of roughly 1,600 souls. โAll of them were bachelors who lived in their stores on the ground floor of the cityโs lead commercial building, a two-story structure located at the southeast corner of Aliso and Los Angeles Streets,โ writes hi...
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