- I am reading a book titled "Revisting the shadows", the author Irena Shapiro who is my best Jewish friend's mother. After she surviving her last concentration camp at Auschwiz, worked in Germany for the American and British armed forces. In 1946 she was among the first few hundred displaced persons granted a collective visa to the United States. She tought biology at the Bronx High School of Science, a specialized high school for gifted students in New York, from 1964 to 1987.
I also wrote a poem for her father, my friend's grandfather:
http://www.mayacafe.com/forum/topic1.php3?tkey=1150076127
>rzp wrote:
I do know many Jewish families moved from or related to Chicago.
New York is the second largest Jewish population centre in the world, after Tel Aviv in Israel. The United States is competing with Israel for the title of home to the world's largest Jewish population, and has by far the largest community of Ashkenazi Jews, Jews who came from central and northern Europe.
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