What does it mean to inherit a history you never personally lived through, yet still carry every day? On Tuesday, June 16 at 7 PM, join us at the JCC of Greater New Haven for an evening with Arthur Myron Horwitz, celebrating the release of his new memoir, Dual Identities: Living in Meier’s Shadow. Raised in New Haven, […]

This program will focus on the Oak Street/Legion Avenue, a bustling immigrant neighborhood that was home to generations of Jewish families who built bakeries, grocery stores, tailor shops, synagogues, landsmanshaftn, and community institutions within walking distance of one another. Yiddish could be heard on the sidewalks, and neighborhood businesses served as the social and economic […]