Throughout the COVID lockdown, these LESJC virtual tours provided a travel log exploring the Jewish past, allowing armchair explorations through time during a period when physical travel was restricted.
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In 1902, the immigrant women of the LES took charge, mobilized, taking their message to the streets, boycotting meat until prices fell, temporarily breaking the Meat Trust.
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Vaudeville celebrity Fanny Brice, arguably the mother of all American-Jewish comics, known best for her character Baby Snooks, the loveable, precocious, bratty toddler was the subject of a Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy (LESJC) program.
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Shepherd provides a fresh perspective, showing hope and the depth of love, in the story of a dog and his boy who together escape Nazi Germany.
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Recipes for a New Beginning uses food to assist Transylvan Jews to connect with the past, beginning with gastronomic nostalgia, and evolving into testimonials that would otherwise be lost.
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Six Minutes to Midnight is a creative spy-thriller, with a star-studded cast that kept me guessing until the end.
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On-Site Opera, a professional New York City-based company, has found a novel way to keep opera alive and well with a three-part series of radio-style song cycle performances entitled “The Beauty That Still Remains: Diaries in Song.”
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Returning to Lodz after 48 years provides bittersweet memories for Ms. Elbaum, she recounts her story through the eyes of a still-life painting, a silent witness to the tragic history.
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“Flying Lovers of Vitebsk” whimsical story of Mark and Bella Chagall delicately balancing their love of family with artistic expression.
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The Vigil, the shock horror is found in a psycho-thriller set in Chassidic Boro Park
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Tenement Museum gives you a virtual glimpse into life on New York City’s Lower East Side, meet the Rogarshevskys who in 1908, shared a three-rooms with nine people.
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“Conclusive Interview #11 will begin shortly,” viewers are told. The Race is every interviewee’s worst nightmare and a show that will delight audiences.
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Forget Russia Bordetsky-Williams’ quasi-biographical historic novel, splices together three generations across two continents.
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Jennifer Young, a historian and writer, introduces Clara Lemlich, a young Jewish woman who led the fight for fair working conditions on the Lower East Side at the turn of the Century.
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