Reconstructing New York's Syrian Colony, Person by Person: Strangers in the West by Linda Jacobs
In recent years, there has been a significant growth of interest in the Syrian Colony of the Lower West Side of Manhattan, frequently also called “Little Syria.” This classic multiethnic neighborhood had a dominant Arabic-speaking influence from the 1880s to 1940s, and it served as the “Mother Colony” for the substantial Syrian and Lebanese immigration to the United States.
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