The Gothic Revival synagogue, known as the 8th Street Shul, was built in the late 19th century when the East Village was a thriving Jewish immigrant community filled with tenements and synagogues.
When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, New York City’s Lower East Side was the epicenter of American tenement life. At one point, almost three hundred thousand people were ...
The Tenement Museum in New York City offers visitors a unique opportunity to step back in time and experience what life was like for immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Amazing photo collection released for new exhibit on documentary photography at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan 'The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951' captures daily life of ...
The immigrant experience of an Irish family fleeing the Great Famine lives on at the Tenement Museum in New York City. The After the Famine: 1869 tour takes you back in time to see how the Moores ...
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(JTA) — The Tenement Museum, which tells the stories of Jewish and other immigrants who lived on New York City’s Lower East Side, announced that it is laying off its tour guides and other part ...