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Old Posted Aug 28, 2019, 1:49 PM
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Originally Posted by eschaton View Post
Outside of NYC, I have heard that Pittsburgh is basically the only remaining U.S. city with a large Jewish neighborhood remaining within the urban core. I'm not 100% sure this is true, but I can't think of any notable still-existing Jewish neighborhoods in Boston, Philly, Detroit, Cleveland, etc.
Are you defining "urban core" as city proper or urban neighborhood? Detroit hasn't had a city proper Jewish presence since about 1970 (and even then was in semi-suburban NW Detroit), Cleveland Jews left the East Side by 1960 or so, Boston has no heavily Jewish city proper neighborhoods, but did it ever? Brookline is Jewish and urban in parts.

NE Philly has a Russian Jewish and Orthodox presence (though declining), so it might qualify. NW Baltimore City definitely has an growing Orthodox Jewish presence, though semi-suburban. West LA has a huge Jewish corridor. Chicago has an Orthodox corridor in West Rogers Park (though I think most Orthodox are in North Shore burbs now).

Is the Pittsburgh neighborhood Orthodox? I never think of Pittsburgh as an Orthodox center, and non-Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods are kinda disappearing through intermarriage/secularization.
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