Looking back at Harlem's history as a major Jewish enclave

… wrote When Harlem was Jewish a book about the Jews who lived uptown from 1870 to 1930 Now Gurock has released his … Harlem than anywhere else in America … In 1917 Harlem was home to the second largest population of Jews in America and … you were doing Gurock says that Central Harlem was the home of the hero of Abraham Kahans 1917 bestseller The Rise …

By Marjorie Cohen |January 25, 2017 - 8:59AM