# Detroit <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Detroit (English)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Wayne County, Michigan, United States</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>42°20′N 83°03′W</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Detroit, on the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario, was founded by the French in 1701 and became the center of the American automobile industry in the early twentieth century, drawing waves of workers to its factories. Its Jewish community grew from German-Jewish merchants in the mid-1800s to a large East European immigrant population that arrived with the industrial boom, settling first around Hastings Street and later moving to the northwest of the city and into suburbs such as Oak Park and Southfield. The auto-era economy made Detroit a significant destination for Jewish immigrants and their descendants in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Detroit; Jewish Virtual Library — Detroit; Encyclopedia of Detroit (Detroit Historical Society).</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Ruth Harrison (b.1902)]] | Born 08/24/1902 | | [[Yonah Meir Bernstein (b.1934)]] | Born 1934 | | [[James L. King (b.1934)]] | Born 07/23/1934 | | [[Devorah Metel Wissotzky (b.1937)]] | Born 1937 | | [[Sharon Barbara Bernstein (b.1939)]] | Born 12/01/1939 | | [[Chaya Sheindel Bernstein (b.1909)]] | Died 02/09/1940 | | [[Chaya Sheindel Bernstein (b.1941)]] | Born 12/28/1941 | | [[Yisrael Eliezer Bernstein (b.1941)]] | Born 12/28/1941 | | [[Zev Bernstein (b.1941)]] | Born 12/28/1941 | | [[Bluma Bernstein (b.1942)]] | Born 1942 | | [[Bracha (b.1943)]] | Born 1943 | | [[Rachel Auslander (b.1886)]] | Died 05/15/1950 | | [[Sam Greenberger (d.1954)]] | Died 1954 | | [[Anita Friedman (b.1955)]] | Born 1955 | | [[Debbie Friedman (b.1956)]] | Born 1956 | | [[Pearl Leah Rosset (b.1893)]] | Died 06/05/1957 | | [[Rachel King (b.1959)]] | Born 09/02/1959 | | [[Meir Bernstein (b.1882)]] | Died 07/07/1960 | | [[Susan Bakst (b.1961)]] | Born 1961 | | [[Ari Moshe Kaplan (b.1961)]] | Born 07/13/1961 | | [[Tzvi Shmuel Friedman (b.1962)]] | Born 1962 | | [[Meir Yaakov Gross (b.1965)]] | Born 04/16/1965 | | [[Adina Chaya Kaplan (b.1966)]] | Born 10/04/1966 | | [[Mordechai Gross (b.1967)]] | Born 1967 | | [[Sheina Perel Rubinstein (b.1969)]] | Born 1969 | | [[Tzivia Schwartz (b.1912)]] | Died 06/19/1969 | | [[Frank Borshky (b.1971)]] | Born 1971 | | [[Mirel Rubinstein (b.1976)]] | Born 1976 | | [[David Dezider Bernstein (b.1911)]] | Died 01/30/1980 | | [[Yitzchak (Ignatz Irving) (b.1907)]] | Died 02/27/1994 | | [[Binyamin Borshky (b.2000)]] | Born 2000 | | [[Chaya Sarah (Helen Elsa) (b.1908)]] | Died 10/06/2001 | | [[Celia Friedman (b.1931)]] | Died 07/01/2009 |