The Lower East Side Jewish Heritage Walking Tour # 2
also known as:
The Synagogues / Settlement Houses of the Lower East Side Walking Tour

This Walking Tour of the Lower East Side's Past and the Present Features:

Stops included on the 2½ hour tour::

• Katz Deli "Send a Salami to Your Son in the Army"
• A tenement style synagogue building no longer used as a synagogue
• "V. Lenin" on the Red Square
• A theater that was the "Houston Hippodrome / Nickelodeon" between 1909 & 1917 featuring Yiddish plays & Yiddish Vaudeville
• Congregation Bnai Jacob Anshe Brzezan (Sons of Jacob, People of Brzezan) a tenement style syngogue still in use
• Site of Shapiro’s Winery (Kosher) from 1899 to 2002
• Originally: the "Forward Building" also known as the "Jewish Daily" or the "Yiddish Daily"
• The Educational Alliance America's first settlement house
• Mural depicting over a hundred years of Jewish history on the Lower East Side from the mid 19th century until the mid 20th century
• Bialystoker Synagogue (the oldest building in NY to currently house a synagogue)
• The original Henry Street Settlement Houses began as townhouses for well to do German Jewish immigrants
• Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, The oldest orthodox congregation continually housed in the same building in New York & the oldest Eastern European Jewish congregation in N.Y.
  The oldest Russian Orthodox Jewish congregation in the U.S.A.
  The first and last "Chief Rabbi of New York City"
• The oldest building built as a Synagogue in New York (now an artist studio, gallery and cultural center)
• The second oldest synagogue in New York
• The site of The Romanian Shul, the first Romanian congregation in America
• A townhouse from 1840 was converted to a Talmud Torah
• Landmark part of the Neighborhood Playhouse from 1915
• Erste Warshawer also known as: The First Warsaw Congregation, 1903, - now artist studios & residential
• Built as Arnold Toynbee Hall Settlement House in 1904,and became a Mikvah in 1940
• A building that originally built as a bathhouse in 1905
• The site of Gus's Pickle, the pickle store / factory made famous in the movie, Crossing Delancey & then moved here
• The landmark Issac Ludlam House from 1826
• A building that was originally, The Bank of The United States, and then home to the Hebrew Publishing Co. for 47 years
• Streit's matzoh factory, the oldest, largest, family owned matzoh factory in America
• site of the Garden Cafeteria 1920’s to 60’s. a meeting place (24 hr coffee shop) for Jewish poets, writers, actors
• 19th Century tenements, synagogues and institutional buildings still here on the Lower East Side and more
• Optional: Beauty of Jerusalem, one of the oldest Hebrew Schools on the Lower East Side and in the U.S.

Stops included on the 3 hour tour::

• The Eldridge Street Synagogue (Eddie Cantor)
• Find Out about: Seward Park - Hester Street and the building that was home to the Klatzker Brotherly Aid Society in 1900
• Originally: the Jarmulousky Bank from 1895, founded by Sender Jarmulowsky - rages to riches
• optional: the site where Ira Gershwin was born

Stops included on the 3 ½ tour::

• Pike St. Synagogue, now a Buddhist temple & apts.
• Henry St. a street from the past
• Shearith Israel's oldest surviving cemetery in New York, the oldest Jewish congregation in North America
Guided by Alfred Pommer a college graduate, an informative native New Yorker, an author of four Manhattan guide books published by The History Press
and a Licensed New York City guide with 27 years experience researching, creating and leading walking tours in Manhattan's many diverse neighborhoods.
Interested in a Private Walking Tour" ?
Call: (212) 979-2388 for details www.nycwalk.com
Or :E Mail Me

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