Book Links   South Philadelphia Strawberry Mansion West Philadelphia Oxford Circle Philadelphia Trolleys North Broad Street Jewish Family and Children's Service Under the Frankford El Jewish South Jersey         Images of America Oxford Circle The Jewish community of Northeast Philadelphia was created by the relocation of second-generation eastern European Jews from the neighborhoods of Strawberry Mansion and South, North, and West Philadelphia. Serving more than one hundred thousand Jewish residents at its height, Northeast Philadelphia consisted of ten distinctive neighborhoods including Feltonville, Oxford Circle, Tacony, and Mayfair. During the twentieth century, thousands of Jewish families were attracted to the area by the houses built along Roosevelt Boulevard for solders returning home from World War II. Welsh Road catered to younger families, and wealthier families resided along Bustleton Avenue and Fox Chase and and Verree Raods. A mix of Holocaust survivors and Russian and Israeli immigrants lived in the far northeast neighborhoods of Bustleton, Somerton, and Philmont Heights during the 1970s and 1980s. Today, the influx of strictly orthodox Jewish residents has given rise to a third generation of Jewish life in Northeast  Philadelphia.