Exploring Harlem’s Jewish History

Walk by the former sites of Jewish religious life in the remarkable urban settlement of Harlem, which from 1870 -1930, was the third largest Jewish community in the world, after New York’s Lower East Side and Warsaw, Poland.

View important landmarks and learn about legendary people of this often forgotten segment of Jewish history, starting with its origins as a community for the very rich, and covering its glory days as a major center of Jewish life in New York.

Explore Harlem’s old legendary Jewish Synagogues – many of which transformed the Judaism of today’s world. Visit the old “Commandment Keepers” – Harlem’s Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation.