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Travel Back to the Jewish Lower East Side of Yore!
Enjoy Bargains! Enjoy a Great Tour! Enjoy
Great Food!
The "nosh and essen tour" of the Lower East Side!
Discover the five great surprises of the Lower East Side!
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Surprise no. 1: First Roumanian-American Congregation
89 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
Tel: (212) 673-2835
Fax: (212) 358-1262
This synagogue is known as "The Carnegie Hall of Cantors." David Merrill, Richard Tucker, and Jan Peerce went on to the opera while Moysher Oysher and Yossele Rosenblatt starred in the Yiddish cinema. Isser and Moshe Kautsevsky were cantors here. The synagogue has a magnificent interior. Rabbis Ari, Gershon, and Shmuel Spiegel carry on the work of their father, Rabbi Ya'acov Spiegel of blessed memory. The synagogue has a beautiful interior upstairs.
- Surprise no. 2. Visit the oldest original synagogue building in
New York City, the Norfolk Street Synagogue!
Operated by Angel Orensanz
Foundation.
www.Orensanz.org
172 Norfolk
Street
New York, NY 10002
Tel: (212) 529-7194
Fax: (212)529-1864
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Surprise no. 3. Nosh at Russ and Daughters!
www.russanddaughters.com
179 East Houston Street
New York, NY 10002
Tel:
(212) 475-4880
(800)
RUSS-229
- Surprise no. 4. Ess at Economy
Candy!
108 Rivington Street
New York, NY
10002
Tel: (212) 254-1531
- Surprise no. 5. Tour with Dr. Phil, the Jewish Maven.
Special Package tour for your group!
Dr. Phil's New York Talks and Walks and Jewish Maven
"We don't go by, we go inside!"
Se how Jewish life in New York Began!
Historian Philip Schoenberg gives a comprehensive tour of the
vibrant Lower East Side cover the famous, the historic and the
gastronomic:
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- Streit's Matzo factory
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- the tenements
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- Guss' Pickle vats of "Crossing Delancey"
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- Walter Mathau and Zero Mostel's high
school
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the comeback of the Norfolk Street synagogue
as a cultural
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center by the Angel Orensanz Foundation
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- the incomparable fish counter at Russ and
Daughters
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- even a taste of Schapiro's sweet wine.
Historian Schoenberg's tour is both informative and nostalgic.
Eleanor Mallet
Journalist and former columnist,
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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