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Brooklynology Blog

Collected by: Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library

Archived since: Jan, 2019

Description:

Brooklynology is the blog of the Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library's local history division and archive.

Subject:   Blogs & Social Media Arts & Humanities Society & Culture

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Title: A Mother's Immigration Story

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/05/10/mothers-immigration-story/

Description: A photo of Holocaust survivor Regina (Rivka, nee Kanner) Gottlieb and her daughter Madeline, and their family's Brooklyn history.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Immigration,  Jewish history ,  Women Oral history

Title: Coordinating Dance Moves and Community in Brighton Beach

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/01/03/coordinating-dance-moves/

Description: Photographer George Cohen captured the scene in 1987 at the Shorefront YM-YWHA (Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association), a Jewish Community Center on Coney Island Avenue in Brighton Beach.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Brighton Beach,  Jewish history ,  Health

Title: Eugenie Fribourg: Nearly 99 Years in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/05/01/eugenie-fribourg-nearly/

Description: May is Jewish American Heritage Month and to celebrate I thought we could take a closer look at the Eugenie Fribourg Family Photographs and Ephemera Collection.

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Subject:   Jewish history ,  Women

Title: Happy Women's History Month from three Queen Esthers

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/03/06/happy-womens-history-0/

Description: Today's photo of the week comes from the Irving I. Herzberg photograph collection. Five Hasidic children stand on the front step of a Williamsburg building on Purim in 1965.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Jewish history ,  Herzberg, Irving Children

Title: Kane Street Synagogue

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/01/23/kane-street-synagogue-2/

Description: This photo of the week shows the sanctuary interior of Kane Street Synagogue in Cobble Hill in 1934. The building was constructed in 1855 as a Middle Reformed Protestant Dutch Church.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Jewish history ,  Architecture Religion

Title: Soup Season: The Syrian-Jewish Edition

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/02/06/soup-season-syrian-jewish/

Description: Today's Photo of the Week comes from our Brooklyn Jewish History Project. This is Fritzie Abadi (Hidary) on a Syrian cooking day, testing her recipe.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Food,  Jewish history

Title: UnBanning Books Since 1934

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/07/01/unbanning-books-1934/

Description: Did you know that in 1934, the Brooklyn Jewish Center founded the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books? Though it's little-remembered today, the initiative was championed by such luminaries as Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, and Upton Sinclair, and was celebrated nationwide.

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Subject:   Jewish history ,  Literature

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