Neighborhoods / North BuffaloNorth Buffalo continues as an organizational home for several congregations even if its Jewish enterprise heyday has faded. In popular memory, Hertel Avenue stands out as a center of Jewish commercial activity and a culinary hub that was...
Neighborhoods / West SideThe Jewish West Side encompasses areas west of Delaware Avenue and includes Allentown, Richmond Avenue, Elmwood and Forest Lawn.OverviewThis broad area is not a single neighborhood but a series of scattered institutions including...
Beth Jacob in Oscar Israelowitz, ed. Synagogues of the United States: A Photographic and Architectural Survey, Israelowitz Publishing, NY, 1992, p. 69. Reproduced with the permission of the editor.
Neighborhoods / East SideThe Buffalo Jewish East Side centered on William Street and Jefferson, and the roads radiating around them stretching to Broadway.OverviewThe East Side holds a particular affection for many Jewish Buffalonians. This was the immigrant...
Neighborhoods / Delaware AvenueThe home of the downtown Jewish Community Center, and Temple Beth Zion, Delaware Avenue is a premier address in Buffalo.OverviewDelaware Avenue was known as Millionaires' Row from the 1880s to World War I, when many large mansions were...
Temple Beth El congregational locations before 1909, Centenary Anniversary Booklet, Temple Beth El Collection, Courtesy of TBZ Cofeld Judaic Museum.
Neighborhoods / DowntownDowntown is associated with commercial Jewish history and has connections to significant historical events as the site of a utopian address in 1825 and the location of the first synagogue established in Buffalo.OverviewFrom the pomp...
Camp Lakeland Counselors, 1947, MS 204, Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo and Summer Camps Records, 1915-2009. Permission of the University Archives, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
Agencies /Jewish Community Center /Jewish Fresh Air Camp and Camp LakelandOverviewCamp Lakeland opened as the Jewish Fresh Air Camp in 1910 under the auspices of the Young Women’s Jewish Benevolent Society. In the earliest days of the camp, this all volunteer...
Centerland extension location, Beaver Island State Park, Grand Island, NY, c. 1943. Photograph created by Frederic Marschall. Courtesy of Getelle Rein.
Agencies / Jewish Community Center / Camp CenterlandOverviewCamp Centerland began as an extended summer option for young children at the Jewish Community Center known as Centerland. This program expanded in the period following World War II from a patchwork of day...
Ada G. Holender (later Miller) c.1900s photograph created by Maud Elkeru. Courtesy of Dr. Joseph Adler.
Organizations / Hadassah of Greater Buffalo Greater Buffalo Hadassah is a local chapter of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, a Jewish women’s voluntary organization and the largest Jewish membership organization in the United States. As a...
Organizations / Ohr TemimimOhr Temimim is a Chabad affiliated day school for children from nursery through 8th grade that grew out of a merger of the Jewish Heritage Day School and Torah Temimah Day School in 2008. In 2014, the school underwent a major expansion of...
Dedication of the Holocaust Memorial at the Jewish Community Center, Getzville, NY, 1977. L-R, Tony Rosenthal (artist), Morris Mesch and Rubin Literman. Morris Mesch Collection, Permission of the University Archives, University at Buffalo
Organizations / Holocaust Resource CenterThe Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo, teaches the lessons of the Holocaust, remembers the survivors and victims of the Holocaust and promote social justice, civic responsibility, and human rights through documentation and...