In 1902, a funeral procession for a prominent rabbi turned into a melee in which nearly 200 Jews were injured. You might be forgiven for never having heard of the worst anti-Jewish riot in ...
The result was “Breaking Home Ties,” a silent film about Russian Jewish immigrants in the Lower East Side that depicts Jews and Jewish practice in a sensitive light. “Breaking Home Ties ...
According to the Museum of the City of New York, a garment worker in 1905 was expected to sew at a rate twice that of her 1900 counterpart. The factories had scant safety or fire protection, mandated ...
If you’ve ever been curious about what makes a monster tick, or how Jewish stories have shaped the way we think about them, ...
(New York) The Blue Moon Hotel, located just south of Delancey Street on Manhattan’s historic Lower East Side, features ...
In a city with such strong ties to Jewish heritage—namely the Lower East Side where Jewish immigrants settled in the early 1900s, and pockets of Brooklyn, home to one of the largest Orthodox Jew ...
Yiddish (the language of Jewish immigrants to Manhattan’s Lower East Side) is spoken fairly often in this play. You don’t need to know Yiddish and some of it I’m sure you’ve heard on TV ...
In 1902, an anti-Jewish riot at a rabbi's funeral in NYC ... Mourners accompany a hearse bearing the body of Rabbi Jacob Joseph on the Lower East Side on July 30, 1902. (photo credit: Le Monde ...