Private Walking Tour: Jewish Lower East Side

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Yiddish Daily Forward Building was once the center for Jewish life and socialism in the new world.
The stunningly restored Eldridge Street Synagogue, today a museum.
This Chinese Funeral Home was once a Landsmanshaft, a Yiddish org focused on raising funds to bring over relatives and neighbors to the New World.
Next to the former building of congregation Ansche Chesed, a statue of Lenin waves approvingly toward the Yiddish Forward Building and mockingly towards Wall Street.
From the Great Depression, this 4th generation Jewish Greek store is a candy museum.
An old Chevre Kadisha building is today a gym for "prison bootcamp"
The Brooklyn Bridge makes Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn a short walk apart

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A tour through the Lower East Side explores the story of immigrant life following the arrival at Ellis Island for Eastern European Jews. One of the most famous neighborhoods on earth, the Jewish Lower East Side hosted remarkable political, social, artistic, economic, and culinary movements that would help to define the modern American experience.

Come learn about the origins of the bagel, pastrami, kosher pickles, socialist movements, iconic department stores, and Hollywood film studios by visiting the Yiddish Forward Building, Eldridge St Synagogue, the Gershwin brothers' childhood home, a historic Loew's Movie Theater, Kossar's Bialys, The Pickle Guys, and a high school that minted many of the U. S. 's biggest movie stars.

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