Jewish Harlem
Sat, Aug 09
|Frederick Douglass Blvd and West 113 St
Did you know that in the early 20th century, Harlem was the third largest Jewish neighborhood in the world behind Warsaw, Poland and the Lower East Side?
Time & Location
Aug 09, 2025, 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM
Frederick Douglass Blvd and West 113 St, New York, NY, USA
About the event
A century ago, Manhattan's Lower East Side saw unparalleled growth as waves of immigrants settled, prayed, played, worked, shopped, and attended school as they built their new lives in a new land. To escape what soon became the most densely populated neighborhood on earth, many of the more well-off residents moved to the much more open landscape of Upper Manhattan, making Harlem the third-largest Jewish neighborhood in the world from 1870–1930 after the Lower East Side and Warsaw, Poland.
Join educator and urban historian Bradley Shaw on Saturday, August 9th at 11:30am and explore this often forgotten segment of Jewish history. See and hear stories about the many synagogues that still proliferate the area, many of which have become Baptist churches, and some of the famous personalities who were born and raised in the neighborhood.
Highlights:
Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein's Institutional Synagogue, the "Shul with the Pool”
A building that…