Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative

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Sephardim in Colonial America

Museum of Jewish Heritage -A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Sephardic Jews are the descendants of Iberian Jews who left Spain beginning in 1492. Fleeing persecution, many sought refuge in more tolerant regions and eventually made their way to the Americas. Settling in New Amsterdam (later New York) and Rhode Island, they formed the first American Jewish comm...

Happy Birthday Barbra! Born in Brooklyn on April 24, 1942, Barbra Streisand, a BJHI Brooklyn Jewish Hall of Fame honoree, began her music career in the early 1960s, stringing together gigs at New York nightclubs while she auditioned for acting jobs. (She has, over the years, referred to herself as “an actor who sings.”