# Bronx <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>The Bronx (English); coextensive with Bronx County</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>New York City, New York, USA</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>40°50′N 73°52′W</td></tr> </table> ## Overview The Bronx is the northernmost of New York City's five boroughs and the only one on the U.S. mainland, coextensive with Bronx County. In the first decades of the 20th century, as subway lines extended north, large numbers of Jewish families moved out of Manhattan's crowded Lower East Side into Bronx neighborhoods such as the Grand Concourse, Morrisania, and later the Grand Boulevard and East Bronx. By mid-century the borough held one of the largest Jewish populations in the country before later demographic shifts. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — The Bronx; YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe — New York City.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Leonard Irving Springer (b.1918)]] | Born 01/24/1918 | | [[Bernard Knee (b.1924)]] | Born 02/14/1924 | | [[Abraham Steinsaltz (b.1878)]] | Died 06/16/1925 | | [[Ruth Gelbman (b.1927)]] | Born 02/27/1927 | | [[Joseph Harry Ferst (b.1927)]] | Born 07/08/1927 | | [[Mildred Frances Peskin (b.1929)]] | Born 12/23/1929 | | [[Edith Lader (b.1933)]] | Born 07/12/1933 | | [[Jacob Barbanel (b.1892)]] | Died 04/26/1937 | | [[Leonard Alvin Steinsaltz (b.1940)]] | Born 01/18/1940 | | [[Paul F. Balter (b.1946)]] | Born 07/22/1946 | | [[Solomon Levine (b.1906)]] | Died 06/14/1961 | | [[Nathan Naftali Gelbman (b.1901)]] | Died 11/23/1961 | | [[Julius Berger (b.1888)]] | Died 11/15/1967 | | [[Genendel Spitz (b.1888)]] | Died 04/05/1970 | | [[David Ferst (b.1893)]] | Died 11/20/1973 | | [[Lillian Hecht (b.1915)]] | Died 05/30/1987 | | [[Azriel Yosef Barbanel (b.1907)]] | Died 10/27/1990 | | [[Hyman Rogoff (b.1890)]] | Died 11/27/1990 | | [[Rose Steinsaltz (b.1900)]] | Died 06/07/1991 | | [[Eli Goldfischer (b.1907)]] | Died 06/19/1999 | | [[Baila Yachet Yocheved Friedman (b.1908)]] | Died 07/08/2000 | | [[Doris Gold (b.1914)]] | Died 09/09/2002 | | [[Yisrael Tzvi Barbanel (b.1934)]] | Died 06/14/2006 | | [[Faiga Toba Barbanel (b.1939)]] | Died 10/25/2006 | | [[Rachel Leah Akierman (b.1916)]] | Died 08/02/2011 | | [[Hyman Peskin (b.1886)]] | Died | | [[Gussie Rosenthal (b.1886)]] | Died |