The New Haven Shtetl: Immigration, Enterprise, and Jewish Life

Orchard Street Shul 232 Orchard St, 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 […]

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