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Originally Posted by Bronxguyanese
With the completion of the williamsburg bridge many Jews who lived in the LES moved across the bridge to Williamsburg. It looks like at this time in the cities history Jews was proobably the largerst immigrant ethnic group of that time especially during this time Russian Civil War between state DUMA controlled white army and the bolshevick red aarmy was at full swing and probably many Russian Jews fled the advancing Bolshevicks! Overall this is really great data.
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My point (which I realize was not be clear) that heart of Jewish Williamsburg for as far back as I knew (going back to at least around 1940) (though if this map is true obviously not as far back as 1919) was around Lee Ave which wasn't marked jewish. There were many institutions I knew that existed from South 6-10th streets. But I was suprised to see that Lee Ave wasn't in Jewish Williamsburg in 1919
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