The Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum was an
orphanage
An orphanage is a Residential education, residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the Childcare, care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their biological families. The parent ...
constructed in
Brooklyn
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,
New York
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(timeline), The Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative. Accessed online 2014-10-22. The Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum branched off from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York when that organization narrowed its support to children in Manhattan. The Brooklyn organization was created by philanthropic members of Union Temple of Brooklyn#Temple Israel, Temple Israel and K.K. Beth Elohim.[ Among those who spent part of their childhood there are ]Hannah Tompkins
Hannah Minthorne Tompkins (August 28, 1781 – February 18, 1829) was the wife of Daniel D. Tompkins, the governor of New York, and later vice president of the United States, and thus was the first lady of New York 1807 to 1817 and then th ...
and eden ahbez.
References
External links
Guide to the Records of Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum
at the American Jewish Historical Society, New York.
Residential buildings in Brooklyn
Orphanages in New York (state)
Jewish orphanages
Jews and Judaism in Brooklyn
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