40s50s Group Tour of Jewish Harlem
May 23, 2010 - 2:00 pm
meet at plaza of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building
163 W 125 St
Online Registration closed but you can still attend. Meet us and pay onsite!
From the 1880's until the beginning of World War I, Harlem was the third largest Jewish community in the world, only slightly smaller than the Jewish communities in Warsaw, Poland and New York's Lower East Side. We will marvel at Harlem's grand synagogues, splendid row houses and Parisian-style apartments. We will visit reminders of Harlem's great Jewish cultural heritage, including the Commandment Keepers, Harlem's active Ethiopian Hebrew Synagogue and the magnificent former Temple Israel, designed by noted Jewish architect Arnold Brunner.
The tour will be lead by noted urban historian, Marty Shore and will meet at 2:00 in the plaza in front of the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building at 163 W. 125th Street. The tour is approximately 3 hours long and cost $21.
Registration Closed
