Category: Living in Bensonhurst

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,…