Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst

7802 Bay Parkway | Bensonhurst | built 1931

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1927
The Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst incorporates to serve the neighborhood's immigrants
The Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, known as "the J", was incorporated in 1927. At first it served as a gathering place for Eastern European Jewish immigrants and their children. It has since aided more than a million Jews in Bensonhurst.
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1940
Syrian Jewish families arrive in Bensonhurst in the 1940s and 1950s, and the center adapts
During the 1940s and 1950s many Syrian Jews moved into Bensonhurst. As the Jewish community of the neighborhood changed, the community house changed its work to match.
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1980
Immigrants from the former Soviet Union reshape the community house's work in the 1980s
A third wave of immigrants reached Bensonhurst in the 1980s, this time from the former Soviet Union, and again shifted the focus of the community house. Its work with adults centered on housing and job searches, and it also ran programs for children and teens such as after-school help and summer camps.
“In the 1980s, a third wave of immigrants, this time from the former Soviet Union, once again shifted the focus of the community center.”
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