Unlike the Jewish community of the Bronx, Jews settled in Brooklyn early in New York history, forming a significant community in the 19th century, and continuing to be a major presence to this day. In its mid-20th-century heyday, there were nearly one million Jews. Currently, there is still a Jewish population that embraces a rich mix of Russian, Syrian, Mizrahi, Mitnagdic, Hasidic, and liberal Jewish Brooklynites.

Your presentor for this talk is Dr. David E. Kaufman, the Founder and Director of NEW YORK JEW: Center for New York Jewish History, Culture and Community. David 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 Untion College in Los Angeles.

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