Oct

7 2018

Jews of Trenton: Talk by Arthur Finkle Trenton Jewish Historical Society

2:00PM - 3:30PM  

The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County 310 Mounts Corner Dr
Freehold, NJ 07728
732-252-6990 info@jhmomc.org
https://www.jhmomc.org/events

$ Cost $ 5.00

The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County presents The Story of the Jews of Trenton, NJ: A Talk by Arthur L. Finkle, of the Trenton Jewish Historical Society and author of Trenton’s Jews: Beginning, Adaptation and Achieving the American Dream, on Sunday, October 7, 2018, at 2 PM. Admission is $3 members, $5 non-members, students free.

Trenton, New Jersey’s state capital, had a Jewish population of more than 10,000 in the mid-1970s. But, like several other industrial cities in the state which once boasted of a flourishing urban Jewish commercial and community life, little evidence of its continuity remains in present times; most of the original residents and their descendants have moved to surrounding suburban areas. Arthur Finkle, of the Trenton Jewish Historical Society, will take a proud and nostalgic look at this example of one of the state’s successful Jewish immigrant experiences and recognize that for many American Jews, Trenton’s story is also theirs.

This program is made possible in part by the Monmouth County Historical Commission through funding from the New Jersey Historical Commission of the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders.