Abe Cahan's Yiddish New York

Discover where Abe Cahan gave his first speech on socialism, labor and trade unions in America, his newspaper the Daily Forward was published, and see where he lived. Learn where his contemporaries Emma Goldman, Molly Picon, Lee J. Cobb, Meyer Lansky lived and labored.

Brighton Beach

Explore how Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have transformed this neighborhood into Little Odessa with its numerous restaurants, vegetable stores, bakeries, appetizing shops, cafeterias, bookstores, novelty shops, and emporiums of various kinds. Also take a walk along the boardwalk!

The Lower East Side: Cradle of American Jewish Civilization

Visit a pickle emporium, see a matzo factory (when in operation), and enjoy other edible delights. We also visit the oldest synagogue building (built from scratch) in New York City, Yiddish newspaper row including the former sites of The Daily Forward, the Garden Cafeteria, and settlement houses such as Henry Street Settlement and Educational Alliance. We may also make brief stops at the Tenement Museum Shop and Orchard Street.

Yiddish Theatrical Row or The Jewish Heritage of The East Village

Visit a former Yiddish theater, the former home of HIAS, the founding site of International Ladies Garments Workers Union, and other notable Jewish sites from colonial to modern items. We also visit the grave of Peter Stuyvesant, the governor of New Netherlands that opposed Jewish settlement and learn the true story of how the Jews became part of New Amsterdam. Discover the Abraham Lincoln connection to the Jewish people.

Crossing Delancey: Jewish Lower East Side below Delancey Street

Enjoy free kosher wine sipping at New York City's only winery, Schapiro's Wine Cellars! Then we will cross Delancey Street to view Guss' Pickles, the Forward Building, the Tenement Museum, America's oldest municipal Park, the Henry Street Settlement, and a mikveh. the good places to eat as well as the oldest synagogue building in New York City, and other sites that mark the birthplace of Jewish civilization in America.

Emma Lazus Country: The Jewish Heritage of Washington Square and Greenwich Village

Discover the Jewish presence in Greenwich Village from the Jewish Cemetery of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue to the current residence of former Mayor Koch and the former home of Emma Lazarus, famous for her poem, "The New Colossus," on the Statue of Liberty.. We will view a tree in Washington Square Park where Mordecai Manual Noah, a Jewish sheriff of New York County, used to hang criminals. We will also see the orginal Triangle Shirtwaist factory site. Discover the George Washington connection to the Jewish people.

The Jewish Gangster Tour

Examine the underside of Jewish immigrant life as we deromanticize such Jewish gangsters as "Little" Augie, "Bugsy" Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Arnold Rothstein and "Kid" Dropper.

Borough Park Bargains

Discover why this neighborhood is the shopping nexus of the Jewish world where your needs can be fulfilled from books to yamulkas.

The Multiethnic Kosher Nosh of Greater New York

Why not sample Californian, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Mexican, Middle Eastern or vegetarian cuisine prepared the kosher way?

Jewish America: Birthplace of American Jewish Life in Downtown Manhattan

We will visit the sites of many Jewish firsts in America. Shearith Israel Synagogue was the first synagogue on the North American mainland. It had the first Jewish cemetery. Five of the twenty-four founders of the New York Stock Exchange were Jewish. The Bill of Rights granting total religious freedom to all was created on the site of Federal Hall. These and other sites will be on our itinerary. The Founding Fathers and their relationship with the Jewish people will be discussed.

Jewish Patriots and Tories of the American Revolution

Discover how the early Jewish community contributed to the building of America and its participation in the American Revolution.  Celebrate the beginning of the Jewish experience in America as we explore the sites of Jewish heritage past and present.

The World of Our Grandparents

Retrace Jewish life in America between 1880 and 1920. We will visit key sites connected with the Jewish experience: gangster hangouts, journalistic round tables, sweatshops, ritual baths, cemeteries, and eateries.

The Jewish and not-so Jewish Ghosts of Greenwich Village

We will former Triangle Shirt Waist Factory, Peter Stuyvesant's grave and other places where Jewish and non-Jewish ghosts have been reported.

Kew Gardens Hill: The New Jewish Mecca of Queens

Shop and walk along a fascinating stretch of Main Street Queens that includes several kosher super-grocery stores, many specialty kosher fast food shops that keep on changing (Japanese, Yemenite, pizza), and various Judaica places. We will look at a synagogue built of Jerusalem stone and visit a monument dedicated in honor of Haym Solomon.

The Hidden Jewish Treasures of Chinatown

This neighborhood is more than just a great place to eat! See where Al Jolson and Irving Berlin were once singing waiters in a local cafe as well as an eighteenth century merchant's mansion. See the Five Corners, the home of Irish, Italian, Jewish, and Chinese gangs. Learn about George Washington's connection to the area and to the Jewish people. We will visit the site of the birthplace of the Yiddish theater as well as the Jewish diamond district. We will pay our respects to the Second Cemetery of Shearith Israel and the birth place of Al Smith, a great friend of the Jews.

Jewish Celebrities of the Upper West Side

Discover where Jewish celebrities lived such as actors (Lauren Bacall, Lee Strasberg, Theda Bara), singers (Al Jolson, Fanny Brice), a writer (Ben Hecht) , a composer (George Gershwin), conductors (Leonard Bernstein, Arturo Toscanini), artists (Mark Rotho, Marc Chagall), a cartoonist (Rube Goldberg, a financier (Bernard Baruch), a publisher (Arthur Hays Sulzberger), and gangsters (Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky). A madam (Polly Adler) ran a bordello in this "classy" neighborhood.

Jewish Celebrities of the Upper East Side

Discover where Jewish celebrities lived such as an actor (Danny Kaye), a politician (Herbert Lehman), playwrights (Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman), directors (Otto Preminger, Elia Kazan), a burlesque artist (Gypsy Rose Lee), writers (Walter Lippman, Lillian Hellman), musicians (Arthur Rubinstein, Benny Goodman), a lyricist (Irving Berlin), showman (Billy Rose), a publisher (Joseph Pulitzer), and a broadcaster (David Sarnoff) lived.

Jewish Celebrities of the Lower East Side

Discover where Isaac Balshevis Singer used to hang out, where Abe Cahan edited The Daily Forward, and Meyer Lansky had his criminal headquarters.

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