Tag: Pinch district Memphis

  • Memphis’ Pinch District: The Jewish/Irish Melting Pot

    Memphis’ Pinch District: The Jewish/Irish Melting Pot

    ABOVE: Residents of Memphis’s historic Pinch neighborhood, early 1900s. Jewish business men with an Irish cop.  The immigrant story in many American cities almost always prominently features two groups of people- the Irish and the Jews. Both came for the promise of a new start in America, which is shared among…