Tag: Jewish Harlem
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When Harlem Was Jewish
The website JewishUnpacked.com has a great article on the history or Jewish Harlem: “Harlem was a microcosm of an entire Jewish community,” Barry Judelman, a Jewish Harlem tour guide and urban historian, explained in an interview.“It was a unique combination of Sephardic, Ashkenazi, and German Jews — by the 1890s, these three groups of Jews were…
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Housing Units in New Buildings Since 2010
Source: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/wwl-plan.pdf Harlem’s Jewish Past The Jewish presence in Harlem before The Depression has given us a number of landmarked structures that have (often) since been converted into churches. One of the most elegant of these buildings is, of course, the Mount Olivet Baptist Church which was once Temple Israel. But Jewish Harlem had more…
