The Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative brings together information about institutions, projects, groups, and individuals connected to the study of contemporary and historical Brooklyn Jewish communities. In this way, we hope to encourage links between individuals and organizations, as well as to facilitate exchanges. Send us your ideas for links and we will consider including them in our Resource list.
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ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
BAC video of performance by Brooklyn Yemeni Jewish singer, Shoshana Tubi
An audio file of Shoshana Tubi’s traditional Yemeni Jewish music
Brooklyn Jewish Community Chorus
Jewish Folk Crafts Guild of Brooklyn
Jewish Children’s Museum of Brooklyn
YidLive Brooklyn, NY “The Best in Online Jewish Music Radio”
Brooklyn Museum’s Collection Items Tagged “Jewish”
The Jewish Museum’s Collection Items Tagged “Brooklyn”
Center for Jewish History Digital Collection Items Tagged “Brooklyn”
COMMUNITY CENTERS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst
Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush
Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations (Bensonhurst COJO)
United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg
Jewish Image Magazine: Sephardic / Syrian Communities
Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island
Bukharian Jewish Center of Brooklyn Facebook Page
Crown Heights Jewish Community Council
Brooklyn College Tanger Hillel
YouTube video on the Brooklyn Jewish Center
A SAMPLING OF SYNAGOGUES AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS
My Jewish Learning’s List of Synagogues, Community Centers, Jewish schools, and More
Congregation B’nai Jacob / Park Slope Shul
Temple Beth Emeth v’Ohr Progressive Shaari Zedek
EDUCATION, DOCUMENTATION, CONNECTIONS
Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection
“Jews in Brooklyn” Facebook Group
Guide to the Records of Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Chassidic Discovery Welcome Center
Milstein Family Jewish Communal Archive Project
A Bialy Shop’s Unlikely (Pakistani) Saviors
New York Landmarks Conservancy’s Sacred Sites Program/Jewish Heritage Fund
HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
American Jewish Historical Society
Jewish Historical Society of Central New Jersey
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
Australian Jewish Historical Society
A SAMPLING OF DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ONLINE
Early Jewish History in Brooklyn
Identification and Analysis of Orthodox Jewish Enclaves in Brooklyn, New York: A GIS based Approach
Sample of Brooklyn Jewish Business Men, Pre-1925
Kane Street Synagogue’s The Synagogue Journal: 1856-2006
RELEVANT SCHOLARSHIP
Abelow, Samuel P. History of Brooklyn Jews. Brooklyn, Scheba Publishing Company: 1937.**
Abrahmovitch, Ilana and Seán Galvin. Jews of Brooklyn. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2002.**
Grinstein, Hyman, B. The Rise of the Jewish Community of New York, 1654-1860. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1945.
Hershkowitz, Leo, Willis of Early New York Jews (1704-1799). New York, American Jewish Historical Society, Studies in American Jewish History, No. 4, 1967.**
Oppenheim, Samuel, The Early History of the Jews in New York, 1654-1664. New York, American Jewish Historical Society, No. 18, 1909.**
Rosenbloom, Joseph R. A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews: Colonial Times Through 1800. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1960. **
** Available in Brooklyn Historical Society Collections
