15 postcards of the Jewish 'ghetto' in New York, Variety publishers including Raphael Tuck & Sons. Early 20th century.
In postcards: The Jewish market, crowded Jewish streets in the ghetto, a prayer shawl for sale, Jewish merchants, and Jewish-owned shops in the ghetto area.
The Jewish ghetto was a Jewish neighborhood with the characteristics of a ghetto that existed in Manhattan from the end of the 19th century until the end of the 1920s. This neighborhood was the second largest urban concentration in New York, culminating in more than 170,000 people - more Jews than in Lodz, London or Berlin at the time. Throughout the first decade of the 20th century, Jews flowed from the Lower East Side towards Harlem. Eastern European immigrants arrived as early as 1890, and a decade later most of the Harlem Jews were already mostly immigrants from the Russian Empire. The new Jewish concentration in Harlem is evident in the ghettoization processes; In the 'ghetto' there was a Jewish area consisting of Landsmanschaftn - mutual aid organizations between Jews from the same city in Europe; Social communities centered on their synagogue (Congregation); Countless of Hayders for Torah study for children, and European-style yeshivas - alongside radical Jewish organizations of workplaces, socialist parties and labor unions. The ghetto gave both the old and the new immigrant a familiar atmosphere and an experience of Jewish belonging.
6 postcards were used, the rest were not mailed. general condition good.
