A Skirball Academy Class
Dr. David E. Kaufman
Beyond the Lower East Side:
New York’s Historic Jewish Neighborhoods
Part One
For over three hundred years, Jews have been carving out pieces of New York to call their own, expanding out well beyond downtown Manhattan as the city burgeoned from a tiny settlement to the capital of the world. In this course, we’ll map their progress with virtual visits to a broad swath of neighborhoods and discover the diversity of what they created between their arrival and 1925.
October 16 — Five Points and Kleindeutschland Early settlement in downtown Manhattan
October 23 — East Side/West Side: Late 19th-century “uptown” neighborhoods
October 30 — The Shtetl of the Lower East Side The turn-of-the-century Eastern European “ghetto”
November 6 — Far from the Maddening Crowds The vibrant immigrant-era neighborhood of Harlem
November 13 — The Forgotten Jewish Borough The Bronx
November 20 — Crossing the Bridge From Williamsburg to Flatbush
Sunday, November 5 — South of Houston Walking tour of the early Jewish neighborhood of SoHo
Part two of this course will cover 1925 to the present
Mondays, 6:30 – 8:00 PM
October 16, 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20
$180, $120 Temple Emanu-El members
Free for Friends of Streicker
OFFERED IN-PERSON
Skirball Academy General Information
William Rosenwald and Ruth Israels Rosenwald Course in Contemporary History
Founder and Director of NEW YORK JEW: Center for New York Jewish History, Culture, and Community, Dr. David E. Kaufman has authored two books, the first, a comprehensive history of early 20th-century Jewish communal life and the other a study of American Jewish celebrity in the 1960s. He spent a decade on the faculty of the Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles.
Mondays, 6:30 – 8:00 PM
October 16, 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20
$180, $120 Temple Emanu-El members
Free for Friends of Streicker
For over three hundred years, Jews have been carving out pieces of New York to call their own, expanding out well beyond downtown Manhattan as the city burgeoned from a tiny settlement to the capital of the world. In this course, we’ll map their progress with virtual visits to a broad swath of neighborhoods and discover the diversity of what they created between their arrival and 1925.
October 16 — Five Points and Kleindeutschland Early settlement in downtown Manhattan
October 23 — East Side/West Side: Late 19th-century “uptown” neighborhoods
October 30 — The Shtetl of the Lower East Side The turn-of-the-century Eastern European “ghetto”
November 6 — Far from the Maddening Crowds The vibrant immigrant-era neighborhood of Harlem
November 13 — The Forgotten Jewish Borough The Bronx
November 20 — Crossing the Bridge From Williamsburg to Flatbush
Sunday, November 5 — South of Houston Walking tour of the early Jewish neighborhood of SoHo
Part two of this course will cover 1925 to the present
OFFERED IN-PERSON
Skirball Academy General Information
William Rosenwald and Ruth Israels Rosenwald Course in Contemporary History
Founder and Director of NEW YORK JEW: Center for New York Jewish History, Culture, and Community, Dr. David E. Kaufman has authored two books, the first, a comprehensive history of early 20th-century Jewish communal life and the other a study of American Jewish celebrity in the 1960s. He spent a decade on the faculty of the Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles.