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Kleindeutschland Roundup
…stemming from large-scale Jewish immigration to the area, and the stigma during and after World War I attached to German identity. Remnants of Kleindeutschland can still been seen today in…
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Farewell to Al Orensanz, a Lower East Side Cultural Hero
…Ph D., he states, “In 1849 the Lower East Side became home to the German Jewish immigrants immediately after the failure of the socialist revolution of 1848. The newly formed…
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Man Ray: The darling of the revolutionary set (art revolution that is)
Man Ray was born on August 27, 1890 in Philadelphia to Russian Jewish immigrants. His father was a tailor and his mother a seamstress. He was named Emmanuel Radnitzky but…
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Happy Birthday, Issac Mizrahi!
Isaac Mizrahi. Photo courtesy of The Jewish Museum. On this day in 1961, fashion designer, author, and friend of GVSHP Issac Mizrahi was born in Brooklyn. With an interest in…
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When New York really became New York
…Jews from settling in New Amsterdam by refusing entry to Jewish refugees from Dutch Brazil (recently taken over by the Portuguese, who continued their expulsion of Jews they had practised in…
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Immigrant Stories – America’s Greatest Asset
…traditions were born (where would we be without the German Christmas tree, African-Americans’ jazz, or that Eastern European Jewish staple, the bagel?!). I’m proud to be a New Yorker and…
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Happy Landmark Anniversary: 144 West 14th Street & 22-26 East 14th Street
…included 14th Street, Union Square, and Ladies’ Mile. From 1881 to 1897, it housed Baumann Brothers, a furniture manufacturing company established c. 1870 by Albert and Ludwig Baumann, Bohemian Jewish…
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Join Us Tomorrow for an Exciting Evening at the Museum at Eldridge Street
…the Lower East Side Jewish community and maintains a small congregation to this day. Mandolinist and clarinetist Andy Statman refers to his compositions as “spontaneous American-roots music and personal, prayerful…
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Bella Abzug, A Champion for Women’s Rights
…Savitzky Abzug (July 24, 1920 – March 31, 1998) was born in the Bronx to Jewish immigrants from Russia. She would become a US congresswoman, leading voice for women’s rights,…
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Black History Month in the East Village: Black Arts Movement
…Library Much of Hettie Jones’s work is focused around her struggle to find identity as an outcast in a Jewish family and as the wife of a black artist during…
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Black History Month in the Village: African-American & LGBT Historic Sites
…and Jewish clergy who aided women in obtaining abortions before it became legal; in the 1970s, it offered refuge for runaway teens; and in the 1980s, it provided medical resources…
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This Day in History: The Rosenbergs are Convicted
…Jewish-American Communists, along with Soviet spy Morton Sobell, were accused of selling nuclear secrets to Russia. Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass, worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and allegedly supplied Julius…
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The Espionage and Sedition Acts
…lived in this tenement on East 13th Street Many locals were arrested and convicted under the law, including Rose Harriet Wieslander, a Lower East Side Russian Jewish immigrant who married…
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Impeachment and the Village
…call for Nixon’s impeachment, prior to Watergate, based upon Nixon’s actions in Viet Nam. Jewish Women’s Archive. “Bella Abzug at Rally to Impeach Nixon.” (Viewed on July 27, 2017) <https://jwa.org/media/abzug-at-rally-to-impeach-nixon>….
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Why Aren’t These Landmarked? Black History Month Edition
…in 1931. Congressman Vito Marcantonio of East Harlem, who served as the IWO’s vice president, introduced legislation drafted by the organization to bar discrimination against Jewish, Italian, and Black individuals…
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