Growing up in Jewish Boyle Heights
Tom Tugend
July 13, 2011
“Boyle Heights wasn’t just a geographical term, it was a mind-set.” So says Abraham (Abe) Hoffman, and he should know.
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Bringing books to Boyle Heights
Jewish Journal
July 13, 2011
The other night, my city councilman was wishing aloud for a new word to call what’s happening lately with our neighborhood, Boyle Heights. “Revitalization” and “resurgence” came to mind, but they sounded a little on the generic side — no more appropriate to Boyle Heights than to downtown, say, or Eagle Rock. Unspoken was the eagerness to christen it anything but what a few have called it: gentrification.
Performance series pays tribute to Boyle Heights’ cultural, artistic legacy
Jewish Journal
June 14, 2011
When Canter’s Deli first opened in Los Angeles, it was not at its now-famous location on Fairfax Avenue, but in Boyle Heights. And though Canter’s and most of the neighborhood’s Jews have long since deserted Boyle Heights, it was forever touched by the culture of the Jewish community that once called it home. Later waves of immigration brought Japanese, Latino and Russian immigrants to the area, giving Boyle Heights a unique and vibrant ethnic vibe.
Briefs: Survey to catalog landmark Boyle Heights buildings to prevent destruction; Chabad expands on
Jewish Journal
March 8, 2007
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Boyle Heights JCC
Tom Tugend
March 9, 2006
Someone has demolished a part of Los Angeles Jewish history and at this point no one in the Jewish community or even the city\’s building department seems to know who did it and why. The architecturally significant Soto-Michigan Jewish Community Center, the focal point of Jewish social and political community life in Boyle Heights from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, has disappeared under the wrecking ball.
Back to Breed Street
Gaby Wenig
August 26, 2004
\”Boyle Heights was the Ellis Island of Los Angeles,\” said City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa at the Breed Street Shul Open Day on Sunday, Aug. 22. \”And this shul was the mother of all synagogues.\”
But the \”mother of all synagogues,\” which opened in 1923, was abandoned by its few remaining congregants in 1996, and left to molder away — unused and unprotected from the elements — in Boyle Heights, a primarily Latino neighborhood.
Until now.
Activists Looking to Past for Inspiration
Bill Boyarsky
July 3, 2003
When I arrived in Los Angeles, I was drawn to Boyle Heights, a Latino community that had once been the home of Los Angeles Jewish radical life.
It wasn\’t that I was looking for Eastside, left-wing Jewish roots. I didn\’t have any. When my grandparents lived in Los Angeles before moving north, they had a grocery store in Eagle Rock and later one near Bunker Hill. My mother commuted to UCLA by bus and streetcar to attend the first classes on the Westwood campus.
Born in East L.A.
Michael Aushenker
August 1, 2002
The East L.A. community of Boyle Heights has always been a neighborhood dominated by immigrants. Today, it\’s a poor Hispanic neighborhood. But Hershey Eisenberg, 75, remembers a different Boyle Heights: It was during the Great Depression, when the community was poor and Jewish, but the sense of community was very rich.
Locals’ Dreams for Breed Street
Gustavo Arellano
July 12, 2001
Although East Los Angeles, and the bordering Boyle Heights, is now the heart of Mexican Los Angeles, vestiges of its diverse past still remain.
Renewing the Breed Street Shul
Mike Levy
May 3, 2001
For years, the only signs of life at Boyle Heights\’ historic Breed Street Shul were the flocks of cooing pigeons flying in and out through the large hole in the ceiling.
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