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Romani people have lived and travelled throughout the state of New York. [1] Muslim Romani people from southern Yugoslavia settled in the Bronx. An increase in attacks on Romani people in eastern Europe brought growing numbers of Romani refugees to New York City during the 1990s.
The largest Romanian American community is in the state of New York. [15] Map of North America highlighting the OCA Romanian Episcopate. The states with the largest estimated Romanian American populations are: [16] New York (161,900) California (128,133) Florida (121,015) Michigan (119,624) Pennsylvania (114,529) Illinois (106,017) Ohio (83,228 ...
The new wave of Romani people such as the Romungre from Hungary and the Catani from Romania to be concentrated in New York and Chicago. [45] Many Romani people also came from Cuba, Canada, Mexico or South America, from where it was easier to immigrate to the United States. [46]
Romanian-Jewish culture in New York (state) (1 C, 8 P) This page was last edited on 20 May 2018, at 01:29 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The First Roumanian-American Congregation, [11] also known as Congregation Shaarey Shomayim [12] (Hebrew: שַׁעֲרֵי שָׁמַיִם, lit. 'Gates of Heaven'), or the Roumanishe Shul [13] (Yiddish for "Romanian synagogue"), was an Orthodox Jewish congregation at 89–93 Rivington Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
The First Romanian-American Congregation, founded in 1881, worshiped in a small synagogue at 70 Hester Street; relocating in 1886 to 131 Hester Street. [ 2 ] In 1903, the congregation purchased an old tenement building at 58-60 Rivington Street and engaged Roth to build a synagogue with the cornerstone laid on November 22, 1903.
Fred Lebow (1932–1994) – founder of the New York City Marathon [38] Dominique Moceanu (born 1981) – US Olympic gymnast [ 39 ] Corina Morariu (born 1978) – former professional tennis player, reached the world No. 1 ranking in doubles in 2000 [ 40 ]
Italy is the most common destination for Romanian emigrants, with over one million Romanians living there.. In 2006, the Romanian diaspora was estimated at 8 million people by then President of Romania, Traian Băsescu, most of them living in the former USSR, Western Europe (esp. Italy, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, France, and Austria), North America (Canada and the United States), South ...