The result was “Breaking Home Ties,” a silent film about Russian Jewish immigrants in the Lower East Side that depicts Jews and Jewish practice in a sensitive light. “Breaking Home Ties ...

The Bronx, like its Jewish community, didn’t disappear, but became something new, first for the worse, then for the better.

He settled on Ludlow Street in the city’s Lower East Side, which was full of Jewish immigrants at the time, and was believed to have sold bananas at a market. He was alone, not yet 25 and very poor.

The industry required significant manpower, which explained why the majority of Jewish immigrants housed on Manhattan’s Lower East Side were absorbed into this field. Thus, while the filthy city ...

(New York) The Blue Moon Hotel, located just south of Delancey Street on Manhattan’s historic Lower East Side, features ...

In a city with such strong ties to Jewish heritage—namely the Lower East Side where Jewish immigrants settled in the early 1900s, and pockets of Brooklyn, home to one of the largest Orthodox Jew ...