# Newark <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Newark (English)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Essex County, New Jersey, USA</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>40°44′N 74°10′W</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Newark is the largest city in New Jersey, the seat of Essex County, situated just west of New York City across the Hudson and Passaic Rivers. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries it attracted a large Eastern European Jewish immigrant population, which settled heavily in the Third Ward (Prince Street district) and later the Weequahic and Clinton Hill neighborhoods. By the 1940s it had one of the most prominent Jewish communities in the region, later largely relocating to the Essex County suburbs. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Newark, New Jersey; Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey — Newark Jewish community.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Bertha Forman Furman (b.1912)]] | Born 1912 | | [[Annette Bender (b.1918)]] | Born 03/19/1918 | | [[Avraham Ostrowsky (b.1922)]] | Born 11/09/1922, Died 07/03/1985 | | [[Binyamin Mendel Bernie Bernstein (b.1931)]] | Born 1931 | | [[Claire R Bernstein (b.1931)]] | Born 1931 | | [[Barney Ostrowsky (b.1880)]] | Died 10/29/1931 | | [[Lawrence Kalman Schwartzstein (b.1940)]] | Born 11/14/1940 | | [[Linda Helen Dart (b.1947)]] | Born 04/28/1947 | | [[Ruth Edelman (b.1950)]] | Born 1950 | | [[Baruch Zvi Hersh Ostrowsky (b.1950)]] | Born 1950 | | [[Moshe Lipa Ostrowsky (b.1954)]] | Born 1954 | | [[Annie Schwartzstein (b.1954)]] | Born 08/22/1954 | | [[Baila Eichler (b.1897)]] | Died 1956 | | [[Alan Howard Schulman (b.1957)]] | Born 1957 | | [[Cindy Ellen Goldsmith (b.1957)]] | Born 05/23/1957 | | [[Baila Chava Ostrowsky (b.1958)]] | Born 1958 | | [[Baila Chana Schulman (b.1960)]] | Born 1960 | | [[Yosef Zalman Bernstein (b.1892)]] | Died 1969 | | [[Chana Ostrowsky (b.1977)]] | Born 1977 | | [[Yosef Yossel Ostrowsky (b.1980)]] | Born 1980 | | [[Nathan Kalish (b.1911)]] | Died 09/20/1985 | | [[Avraham Ostrowsky (b.1989)]] | Born 1989 | | [[Perel Ostrowsky (b.1991)]] | Born 1991 | | [[Yosef Baruch Ostrowsky (b.1996)]] | Born 1996 |