Walking the Forgotten History of Jewish Harlem

Explore Jewish sites in the remarkable urban settlement of Harlem, which by 1900 was a major center of Jewish life and the 3rd largest Jewish community in the world, after the LES and Warsaw.

Discover legendary Jewish landmarks and people of this forgotten time: the magnificent Temple Israel by noted Jewish architect, Arnold Brunner; the “Commandment Keepers” – Harlem’s Ethiopian Hebrew Synagogue; the trendsetting Institutional Synagogue, (the “shul with the pool”); Ohab Zedek, synagogue of the world famous cantor Yossele Rosenblatt (king of cantors); songwriter extraordinaire Richard Rodgers; actress Gertrude Berg (AKA Molly Goldberg), and Lena Himmelstein Bryant – the founder of the successful clothing enterprise “Lane Bryant”.