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✓ Published: 17-May-2015
✓ Published: 17-May-2015
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Little OdessanDuring the late 18oos and early 1900s, more than half the Jewish population living in Russia fled to escape historic religious persecution and anti-Semitism. Those who came to New York City joined the largest Russian-speaking community in the U.S. (at the time) in Brighton Beach, a neighborhood nicknamed “Little Odessa” after the Ukrainian city on the Black Sea.nnHere, locals amble along the boardwalk arm in arm, wearing fur coats and hats. In the area, a collection of synagogu
Little OdessanDuring the late 18oos and early 1900s, more than half the Jewish population living in Russia fled to escape historic religious persecution and anti-Semitism. Those who came to New York City joined the largest Russian-speaking community in the U.S. (at the time) in Brighton Beach, a neighborhood nicknamed “Little Odessa” after the Ukrainian city on the Black Sea.nnHere, locals amble along the boardwalk arm in arm, wearing fur coats and hats. In the area, a collection of synagogu
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