Category: Jewish
Our names are Eliane Aini, Albert Cohen, and Abraham Chabbott and we are all Macaulay Honors College freshmen at Brooklyn College. We have grown up in Brooklyn, New…
Children were able to play many games together, including some games such as stickball, racquetball, and Chinese handball, as well as indoor hockey when the weather was not…
When the Jews immigrated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, they lived in small, crowded apartments in tenements. Beginning in the 1920s, following the creation of the…
Paul S. Green, in his Memoir, “Growing up in Interwar Bensonhurst,” describes how Yiddish, a common language among Jews of European descent, continued to be learned and spoken….
The Jewish community lived alongside the larger Italian community in Bensonhurst. Both groups got along very well. Norma Shamosh, a 73-year-old mother to five children, and a Bensonhurst native,…
The members of the Sephardic Jewish community in Bensonhurst originally immigrated from the Middle East, and moved to Bensonhurst from the Lower East side of Manhattan. They kept…
Around the 1990s, Russian Jews became the predominant Jewish group in Bensonhurst. Many left the Soviet Union because of persecution. Anti-Semitism was prevalent over there and parents did…
Although many Jewish children attended public schools, there were a few Hebrew schools created for the community. One such school is Ohel Moshe, a boys’ yeshiva that Abie…
The Jewish communities were successful in opening up multiple synagogues. One example of a synagogue is the Magen David Synagogue, the first Sephardic congregation in Benshonhurst, located on…
