Fordham University: Center for Jewish Studies Launches Bronx Jewish History Project

Fordham University: Center for Jewish Studies Launches Bronx Jewish History Project . “In the first half of the 20th century, the Bronx was home to hundreds of thousands of Jewish residents, many of whom had immigrated with their families in the late 1800s and early 1900s from Europe. More than 600,000 Jewish people lived in the borough in the late 1940s, but by 2003, just about 45,000 were left, according to a 2002 Jewish Community Study by UJA-Federation.”