Category: Communities

Sephardic Jewish Community

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…

Russian Jewish Community

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…

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