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Orange County Jew - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Orange County Jew - A Memoir (Paperback)
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When Martin Brower moved his family from heavily Jewish Los Angeles
to barely Jewish Orange County, California, in 1974, his Los
Angeles friends were amazed at his bravery and his foolishness.
Orange County was considered anti-Semitic and lacking in culture.
However, during the years following World War II, Orange County was
transformed from a small rural community with citrus groves, row
crops and cattle -- first into a bedroom community for neighboring
Los Angeles County and then into a dynamic urban empire. As the
County's population and employment base exploded, Orange County's
Jewish population grew from a small enclave of Jewish shopkeepers
into a vibrant Jewish community in excess of 100,000. To the
surprise of many, Orange County now boasts one of the leading
centers of Jewish life in the nation, complete with 30 synagogues,
a grand new Jewish Community Center, one of the nation's largest
Jewish day schools and one of its finest homes for the aging. In
his book "Orange County Jew: A Memoir," Brower superimposes the
growth of the Jewish community over the amazing development of
Orange County itself, and uses as a framework the personal story of
his own 36 years as a resident of Orange County and as a player
among its major real estate development companies and its
entrepreneurial leaders.
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