Re: Jewish New York: Notable Neighborhoods & Memorable Moments By Ira Wolfman


moshes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Harry Weiss <hjweiss@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > darrint68@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >> As The YID of TID, it is my sworn duty to excerpt the following new
> >> addition to my Judai library (ehehehe):
> >
> >> INTRODUCTION: Greatest Jewish City In The World
> >> The Jews of New York City today make up the largest, richest, most
> >> creative Jewish community in the world. Yet little more than a hundred
> >> years ago, most of them were desperately poor, living in teeming
> >> immigrant neighborhoods. How these Jews - through struggle, education,
> >> and determination - transformed themselves and their city is a great
> >> American success story.> >

> > Aren't some Chassidim setting up a neighborhood between Willy and
> > CH named after the the Valley of Hinom near Jerusalem.?>

> What _are_ you talking about?>>

Harry is jiving the NY slang! ehe Willy as in Williamsburg, and CH as
in Crown Heights! -D, NYC "Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army!" - WW
II era slogan, originated in NYC, Katz's Deli, opened 1888-present.."In
1926, this NYC landmark hotel became the first Jewish hotel in the US"
- Libby's Hotel & Baths.."There are many Jews settled in New
York...they have a synagogue and houses...they enjoy all the privileges
common to other inhabitants of this town" - PETER KALM, a Swedish
visitor, 1748.."There are German Jews, Spanish and Portugese Jews from
Holland, Galicia, Hungary, Rumania, and the Ukraine...there are
multi-millionaire Jews of Riverside Drive, the poor Jews of Harlem, the
Bronx & Brooklyn" - PAUL MORAND, c. 1930..(if only he had lived to see
the rich Sephardic Jews of Ocean Parkway & Midwood! LOL).."Every call
for aid from stricken Jews in other parts of the world revivified
Jewish life in New York by reminding New York Jews of their own people"
- HYMAN GRINSTEIN.."In New York, even if you're Catholic, you're
Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you're going to be Goyish, even
if you're Jewish!" ehe - LENNY BRUCE (b. Leonard Alfred Schneider, LI,
NY, umpteenth sweet, Jewish, NYer)
http://tinyurl.com/4c6wf (Unabashedly Jewish - alternative to SCJ &
SCJM)
http://tinyurl.com/3juvb (New York Jewish History)

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