On the old haunts of Soviet and post-Soviet émigrés in West Hollywood and L.A.'s Fairfax District.
This was what everyone had come to hear — not just to the Black Sea, I mean, but to the coast of the Pacific. Between 300,000 and 600,000 immigrants from the U.S.S.R. arrived in Southern California in the 1980s and ’90s, many of us Jews. Because we couldn’t practice our faith or maintain our traditions in our home country, we were seldom very religious, but our identity, which had been a liability, was important to us, burnished as it was with the pride of having survived persecution.
Another banquet hall still clings to its second-story perch at 531 N. Fairfax Ave., looking down its nose at the ever-changing storefronts below. Maxim’s is old-school stately, with napkin rings and drapes galore. It’s there that we celebrated my best friend’s wedding. When the cake his father had ordered was unveiled, it turned out that the émigré baker had misspelled the American-born bride’s name, Brooklyn.
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