{"id":1297,"date":"2016-09-07T16:48:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/07\/ackman-ziff-family-genealogy-institute-launches\/"},"modified":"2016-09-07T16:48:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:48:18","slug":"ackman-ziff-family-genealogy-institute-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/07\/ackman-ziff-family-genealogy-institute-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute Launches Online Map of New York\u2019s Historical Synagogues"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Moriah Amit, M.S.L.I.S., Senior Reference Services Librarian, Genealogy Coordinator, Center for Jewish History
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Did any of your Jewish ancestors settle in New York City? Have you
\nwondered what life was like for those ancestors who settled on the Lower
\n East Side or any of the dozens of other Jewish neighborhoods that
\nemerged in the city\u2019s five boroughs in the late 19th and early 20th
\ncenturies? In trying to gain a better understanding of one\u2019s immigrant
\nancestors\u2019 experiences, one of the key questions that arises is \u201cWhich
\nsynagogue did my ancestors attend?\u201d As that information was not recorded
\n in civil documents and was rarely passed down in family stories, this
\nis a challenging question to tackle, with a potential pool of hundreds
\nof synagogues to choose from during the peak period of Jewish
\nimmigration to New York, from around 1880 to 1924. However, since most
\npracticing Jews preferred to attend a synagogue within walking distance
\nof their homes, narrowing the potential pool to those located within a
\nlimited geographical radius around one\u2019s ancestors\u2019 home(s) seems like a
\n logical first step toward identifying their synagogue(s). \u00a0While one
\ncan find many listings of New York\u2019s synagogues in directories spanning
\nfrom the early 19th century to the present, it is not possible to
\nconceive of how they are spatially arranged across the city without
\nviewing them on a map. To fill this need, the Ackman & Ziff Family
\nGenealogy Institute<\/a> at the Center for Jewish History, spearheaded by its
\n Senior Reference Services Librarian, Moriah Amit, developed and
\nrecently launched a searchable online map of New York\u2019s historical
\nsynagogues. At present, the map only contains synagogues that were
\nactive in Manhattan between 1900 and 1918, but the Institute plans to
\nexpand the map to encompass all five boroughs and a longer timespan.
\nTake a step back in time and explore the religious realm of your
\nancestors\u2019 lives at synagoguemap.cjh.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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