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Scenes from the Suburbs

December 9, 2011
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Historian Arthur Hertzberg estimated that in the two decades between 1945 and 1965 one out of every three American Jews left the big cities for the suburbs. This was a trend that occurred throughout the general population, but it was much more pronounced among Jews. Several factors contributed to the general migration:…

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