Jeffrey Gurock Featured on BBC's One Block in Harlem Documentary Around the world the name Harlem is synonymous with people's knowledge of the black experience in America - it means ghetto, cultural achievement, political activism and impoverished despair.

But in the last decade the area has been going through dramatic changes. First, former President, Bill Clinton, opened his post-White House office there. Then, as Manhattan real estate prices rocketed, wealthy people, many of them white, began moving in. The BBC's Michael Goldfarb traced the iconic neighborhood's story by telling the history of a single street in Harlem - 120th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues - from 1910 to the present day. Although Harlem is the best-known African-American neighborhood in the world, a hundred years ago 120th Street was, like most of the area, a Jewish neighborhood. Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, has spent much of his career writing about Harlem's Jewish past and provided Goldfarb with a guided tour of the neighborhood. Listen to part one of the BBC World Service's documentary One Block in Harlem here...