Was the Jewish Bronx the ‘paradise’ that it seemed? | COMMENTARY
The Bronx, like its Jewish community, didn’t disappear, but became something new, first for the worse, then for the better.
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Was the Jewish Bronx the ‘paradise’ that it seemed?
In 1930, the Bronx was 50% Jewish. It’s a statistic that always surprises me, partly because the intense Jewish nostalgia ...
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