# Brooklyn <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Brooklyn (English); coextensive with Kings County</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>New York City, New York, USA</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>40°41′N 73°59′W</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Brooklyn, on the western end of Long Island, is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs and is coextensive with Kings County. As Manhattan's Lower East Side grew overcrowded in the early 20th century, huge numbers of Eastern European Jewish immigrants settled across the East River in Brooklyn neighborhoods such as Brownsville, Williamsburg, Borough Park, and Bensonhurst. It became — and remains — one of the largest and most concentrated centers of Jewish life in the United States, including major Hasidic and Orthodox communities. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Brooklyn; YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe — New York City.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Chava Leah Bernstein (b.1860)]] | Died July 1904 | | [[Hannah Hertz (b.1865)]] | Died 01/28/1906 | | [[Sarah Marion Buzen (b.1907)]] | Born 11/01/1907 | | [[Ruth Nager (b.1911)]] | Born ~1911 | | [[Helen Seiden (b.1912)]] | Born 02/07/1912 | | [[Gertrude Feiner (b.1912)]] | Born 09/14/1912 | | [[Jean Tlumak (b.1912)]] | Born 09/27/1912 | | [[Nettie Greene (b.1913)]] | Born 09/12/1913, Died 12/11/1975 | | [[Harold Riback (b.1914)]] | Born 04/29/1914 | | [[Joseph George Greene (b.1915)]] | Born 06/03/1915 | | [[Blanche Riback Zerninsky (b.1916)]] | Born 06/24/1916 | | [[Benjamin Greene (b.1919)]] | Born 04/14/1919 | | [[Manuel Saltzman (b.1920)]] | Born 01/08/1920 | | [[Dorothy L Kotler (b.1920)]] | Born 01/10/1920 | | [[Jennie Siminovitch (b.1845)]] | Died 12/15/1920 | | [[Sidney Raphael Bernstein (b.1921)]] | Born 09/02/1921 | | [[Rose Diamond (b.1922)]] | Born 03/27/1922 | | [[Anna D. Hertz (b.1923)]] | Born 02/08/1923 | | [[Rose Beatrice Golub (b.1923)]] | Born 07/05/1923 | | [[Dov Goldfischer (b.1924)]] | Born 12/03/1924 | | [[Beatrice Hertz (b.1925)]] | Born 08/04/1925 | | [[Herbert Robert Mendelson (b.1925)]] | Born 08/25/1925 | | [[Martin Beckerman (b.1925)]] | Born 12/25/1925 | | [[Sarah Cebulsky (b.1888)]] | Died 01/21/1926 | | [[Thelma Greene (b.1926)]] | Born 06/07/1926 | | [[David Richard Rogan (b.1926)]] | Born 07/27/1926 | | [[Sidney Goldfischer (b.1926)]] | Born 12/28/1926 | | [[Hyman Greenberg (b.1927)]] | Born 04/03/1927, Died 04/1978 | | [[Ruth Haring (b.1926)]] | Died 06/09/1927 | | [[Eli Selig Bernstein (b.1865)]] | Died 08/20/1927 | | [[Isidor Nissenbaum (b.1893)]] | Died 10/28/1927 | | [[Renee Eisner (b.1928)]] | Born 03/31/1928 | | [[Louis Barbanel (b.1863)]] | Died 09/25/1928 | | [[Arthur Saftler (b.1929)]] | Born 01/04/1929 | | [[Barry Hochman (b.1929)]] | Born 11/17/1929 | | [[Louis Morris Bernstein (b.1865)]] | Died 06/01/1930 | | [[Nathan Goldfischer (b.1862)]] | Died 12/02/1930 | | [[Esther (Tzirel Celia) (b.1930)]] | Born 12/28/1930 | | [[Rosalie Herz (b.1931)]] | Born 07/03/1931 | | [[Nathan David Goldfischer (b.1931)]] | Born 08/09/1931 | | [[Sylvia F Herz (b.1934)]] | Born 02/01/1934 | | [[Libby Marcia Bennis (b.1934)]] | Born 05/24/1934 | | [[Gussie Gingold (b.1893)]] | Died 12/25/1934 | | [[Malka Reig (b.1863)]] | Died 07/22/1935 | | [[Nechemia Wenger (b.1935)]] | Born 12/25/1935 | | [[Joseph Greenberger (b.1936)]] | Born 1936 | | [[Bleema Sheva Elka Kessler (b.1936)]] | Born 01/31/1936 | | [[Lawrence Leonard Asher (b.1936)]] | Born 03/06/1936 | | [[Hencha Kamerman (b.1868)]] | Died 05/30/1937 | | [[Thelma Rivkind (b.1937)]] | Born 07/24/1937 | | [[Audrey Katz (b.1937)]] | Born 11/28/1937 | | [[Leonard Allen Bennis (b.1937)]] | Born 12/10/1937 | | [[Levi Dreyer (b.1938)]] | Born 04/16/1938 | | [[Carol Rivkind (b.1939)]] | Born 08/13/1939 | | [[Sydelle Abrotsky (b.1939)]] | Born 09/19/1939 | | [[Eileen Greenberger (b.1940)]] | Born 1940 | | [[Sura Frajda Cukier (b.1861)]] | Died 03/15/1941 | | [[Eliezer Goldfischer (b.1941)]] | Born 09/07/1941 | | [[Etta Malia Goldfischer (b.1941)]] | Born 09/07/1941 | | [[Rita Mae Mione (b.1941)]] | Born 10/07/1941 | | [[Anna Drier (b.1891)]] | Died 02/1942 | | [[Daniel Austin Frankel (b.1943)]] | Born 04/24/1943 | | [[Sophie Weisbrodt (b.1880)]] | Died 11/11/1946 | | [[Harriet P. Greenberger (b.1947)]] | Born 1947 | | [[Barbara Bennis (b.1947)]] | Born 08/13/1947 | | [[Nathan Riback (b.1890)]] | Died 10/27/1947 | | [[Jacob Diamond (b.1882)]] | Died 11/02/1947 | | [[Marjorie Beth Barbanel (b.1947)]] | Born 11/25/1947 | | [[Harry Hersch Edelstein Schmukler (b.1885)]] | Died 12/07/1947 | | [[Penina Isseroff (b.1948)]] | Born 1948 | | [[Max Hochman (b.1873)]] | Died 04/29/1948 | | [[Mary Lane (b.1950)]] | Born 07/13/1950 | | [[Harry K Waizer (b.1951)]] | Born 02/26/1951 | | [[Malka Hirsch (b.1951)]] | Born 05/20/1951 | | [[Benjamin Harrison (b.1879)]] | Died 1952 | | [[Harry Kotler (b.1893)]] | Died 05/29/1952 | | [[Ellen Riback (b.1952)]] | Born 11/22/1952 | | [[Malka Ruchla (b.1878)]] | Died 1955 | | [[Sholom Goldfischer (b.1955)]] | Born 07/24/1955 | | [[Ruth Hanna Goldfischer (b.1899)]] | Died 10/09/1955 | | [[Samuel Goldfischer (b.1882)]] | Died 01/30/1956 | | [[Marc Goldfischer (b.1956)]] | Born 12/14/1956 | | [[Rose Menduke (b.1892)]] | Died 02/07/1957 | | [[Abraham Tlumak (b.1883)]] | Died 06/15/1959 | | [[Andrew Peter Bennis (b.1959)]] | Born 11/25/1959 | | [[Morris Lerner (b.1886)]] | Died 1960 | | [[Avi Alan Goldfischer (b.1962)]] | Born 02/02/1962 | | [[Kale Lerner (b.1886)]] | Died 08/02/1964 | | [[Fay Rosenbloom (b.1897)]] | Died 09/05/1964 | | [[Flori Beth Goldfischer (b.1965)]] | Born 08/21/1965 | | [[Avraham Eliezer Moshe Meir Weiss (b.1967)]] | Born 02/28/1967 | | [[Melissa Pearlstein (b.1967)]] | Born 08/19/1967 | | [[Jacob Greene (b.1888)]] | Died 01/1969 | | [[Katy Lerner (b.1897)]] | Died 05/13/1969 | | [[Tova Mayerfeld (b.1972)]] | Born 02/22/1972 | | [[Harry Haring (b.1897)]] | Died 06/05/1973 | | [[Baila Isseroff (b.1894)]] | Died 07/25/1973 | | [[Lillian Birenbaum (b.1930)]] | Died 06/01/1974 | | [[Raphael Bernstein (b.1974)]] | Born 07/26/1974 | | [[Meta Baum (b.1893)]] | Died 08/13/1974 | | [[Gila Mayerfeld (b.1975)]] | Born 05/16/1975 | | [[Minnie Lerner (b.1900)]] | Died 11/29/1975 | | [[Ida Lenner (b.1891)]] | Died 07/19/1976 | | [[Ida (b.1893)]] | Died 07/19/1976 | | [[Avi Bernstein (b.1977)]] | Born 04/28/1977 | | [[Sidney Daniel Herz (b.1899)]] | Died 06/14/1977 | | [[Jonas Phillip Bernstein (b.1893)]] | Died 23 May 1979 | | [[Gittel Perel Katz (d.1979)]] | Died 01/05/1979 | | [[Shaul Meir Mayerfeld (b.1979)]] | Born 02/04/1979 | | [[Meir Akerberg (b.1904)]] | Died 08/03/1979 | | [[Alter Yitzchok Isaac Friedman (b.1895)]] | Died 01/1981 | | [[Elisheva Hindy Mayerfeld (b.1982)]] | Born 08/06/1982 | | [[Charles Harrison (b.1913)]] | Died 02/1983 | | [[Adam Abraham Kessler (b.1984)]] | Born 1984 | | [[Shulamis Mayerfeld (b.1984)]] | Born 05/28/1984 | | [[Yosef Goldfischer (b.1899)]] | Died 02/1985 | | [[Arielle Jessica Goldfischer (b.1985)]] | Born 03/11/1985 | | [[Jonathan F Newcombe (b.1985)]] | Born 09/06/1985 | | [[Lipa Yecheskel Moser (b.1985)]] | Born 09/07/1985 | | [[Duvid Goldfischer (b.1926)]] | Died 03/16/1986 | | [[Sholom Tabak (b.1911)]] | Died 05/13/1986 | | [[Dovid Aryeh Moser (b.1986)]] | Born 12/30/1986 | | [[Avrohom Baruch Moser (b.1988)]] | Born 06/03/1988 | | [[Manfred Menachem Mayerfeld (b.1908)]] | Died 06/14/1988 | | [[Yehuda Leib Isseroff (b.1898)]] | Died 12/12/1988 | | [[Etel Yetta Edelstein (b.1892)]] | Died 01/04/1989 | | [[Sally Fishbein (b.1901)]] | Died 03/09/1990 | | [[Anna Mindla Halperin (d.1990)]] | Died 03/19/1990 | | [[Sarah Leah Moser (b.1991)]] | Born 07/09/1991 | | [[Seril Tabak (b.1930)]] | Died 07/27/1991 | | [[Esther Rosenberg (b.1898)]] | Died 12/15/1991 | | [[Yosef Zev Biderman (b.1993)]] | Born 12/02/1993, Died 03/13/1994 | | [[Miriam Goldfischer (b.1902)]] | Died 06/01/1994 | | [[Yosef Shlomo Moser (b.1994)]] | Born 06/02/1994 | | [[Lejzor Waizer (b.1917)]] | Died 06/12/1994 | | [[Raphael Shlomo Spitzer (b.1994)]] | Born 08/11/1994 | | [[Menachem Mendel Isseroff (b.1995)]] | Born 08/05/1995 | | [[Rochel Leah Hoberman (b.1921)]] | Died 05/30/1996 | | [[Bentzion Moser (b.1996)]] | Born 11/06/1996 | | [[Bernard J Herz (b.1940)]] | Died 08/19/1999 | | [[Eliezer Shalom Moser (b.1999)]] | Born 12/18/1999 | | [[Louis Greenberger (b.1907)]] | Died 03/07/2000 | | [[Else Esther Lustig (b.1912)]] | Died 08/22/2000 | | [[Sasha Friedman (b.1897)]] | Died 2002 | | [[Jack Leonard Goldfisher (b.1927)]] | Died 10/27/2003 | | [[Shimon Bernstein (b.1913)]] | Died 2004 | | [[Sarah Yetta Dahne (b.2005)]] | Born 03/02/2005 | | [[Irving Cohen (b.1912)]] | Died 11/15/2006 | | [[Sheila Goldfischer (b.1927)]] | Died 03/17/2007 | | [[Ettel Freida Siegel (b.1930)]] | Died 05/2007 | | [[Roslyn H Silverstein (b.1931)]] | Died 05/02/2007 | | [[Leah Goldfischer (b.1918)]] | Died 09/07/2007 | | [[Marvin I Haring (b.1928)]] | Died 01/04/2009 | | [[Avigdor Neumann (b.1926)]] | Died 09/07/2009 | | [[Benjamin Halpert (b.1921)]] | Died 01/17/2010 | | [[Rose Friedman (b.1920)]] | Died 06/02/2010 | | [[Annette Bender (b.1918)]] | Died 10/17/2010 | | [[Mishket Margaret Weiss (b.1924)]] | Died 10/26/2010 | | [[Yitzchok Isaac Spira (b.1921)]] | Died 09/29/2012 | | [[Basya Chaya Purec (b.1926)]] | Died 02/20/2016 | | [[Jenö Friedman (b.1927)]] | Died 06/08/2016 | | [[Yisroel Moshe Biderman (b.1923)]] | Died 10/17/2016 | | [[Moses Azariah Kessler (b.2017)]] | Born 05/25/2017 | | [[Efraim Fishel Friedman (b.1915)]] | Died | | [[Joseph W Harrison (b.1906)]] | Died | | [[Natalio Katz (b.1945)]] | Died | | [[Jack Finkel]] | Born |