Harold Arluck, 1920s. Courtesy of Sam A. Arlen, SA Music LLC.
Harold Arlen Exhibition / Performer and Arranger By the age of 18, Arluck had established himself as a full-time performer. He changed his first name to Harold listing himself in the Buffalo City Directory in 1923. In 1924, he published his first piece of music with...
Over the Rainbow is intimately connected with Judy Garland who sang it first at the age of 16. She continued to perform it throughout the rest of her life.
Harold Arlen Exhibition / From New York to Hollywood Harold Arluck settled in New York City in the late 1920s in an era known as the Jazz Age (1920s-1930s) also defined by musicologists as the Golden Age of Song (1920s-1940s). At just 23, Harold had more than a...
Harold Arlen, c. 1960s (signed by Harold Arlen, 1976). Photographer Unknown. Performing Artists Photograph Collection, circa 1890-1976. RBR WNYO 1890.P46, Courtesy of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library.
Harold Arlen Exhibition / Remembering Harold Arlen The Buffalo beginnings of Harold Arlen remained with him throughout his life. Commentators and musicologists assessed Arlen as a complex and “complete” composer, who created songs of outstanding cultural resonance...
Rabbi, Dr. Joseph L. Fink. Photographer unknown, c. 1940s. Courtesy of Toby Fink Laping.
Dr. Joseph L. Fink was a nationally respected rabbinic leader, skilled mediator and inspiring speaker who led Temple Beth Zion for forty years as Rabbi, Senior Rabbi and Rabbi Emeritus. For four decades, Dr. Fink served as a distinguished civic and inter-faith leader, and a much beloved pulpit Rabbi.
People A-Z / Marcus Flintrowitz Soldier and Cigar Maker (c.1816-1882) Overview Marcus Flintrowitz was born in Kraków, and came to Buffalo in 1846 and initially worked as a barber. Soon after, he enlisted for service in the Mexican-American War on February 6, 1847...
Temple Beth David, Front Exterior, designed by Louis Greenstein. Created by Izon Productions-Don Dannecker, 2017. Reproduced with permission of the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies.
People A-Z / Louis GreensteinArchitect 1886-1972OverviewLouis Greenstein was born in 1886 in Buffalo at a time of significant Jewish immigration into the city. As a professional architect, he created commercial, religious, civic and residential designs that followed...
Elaine and Eileen Kellick (née Kaiser) B'nai B'rith Girls, Rena Chaim Chapter, 1957-1958
B’nai B’rith Girls formed as a girls youth wing of the local B’nai B’rith parent organization, supported by B’nai B’rith Women. It provided a whole range of social, educational, religious and service opportunities for Jewish girls in Greater Buffalo.
Bessie Wander, Jewish Mothers Club, Cup 1924. Photograph by Don Dannecker. Courtesy of the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies.
The Jewish Mothers Club began as an all-volunteer effort to help women and their families living on the East Side of Buffalo with childcare and temporary foster care. It was active from the early years of the twentieth century to the mid 1950s when it closed.
Neighborhoods / SuburbsThe suburbs are expansive and include Kenmore, Cheektowaga, Getzville, Amherst, Snyder, Williamsville, and Clarence and all stops in between.OverviewSince the 1950s, the main growth area of Jewish living in Greater Buffalo area has been the...
Neighborhoods / Humboldt-FerryEncompassing the East Ferry and Humboldt Parkway area, and the streets of East Ferry, Woodlawn, Wohlers, Roehrer, Glenwood Ave and Crestwood.OverviewAs the East Side began to decline, young first-generation American Jews moved uptown...