This is the Forward’s coverage of the Lower East Side, a neighborhood in Manhattan that was a center of Jewish immigrant culture in the 20th century.
Lower East Side
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Culture ‘An ethereal presence’: An artist gives the women of the old Lower East Side new life
At the Eldridge Street Synagogue, artist Adrienne Ottenberg pays homage to turn-of-the-century Jewish women
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Culture Why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas?
American Jews have a long history of breaking out the chopsticks in late December
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Culture Finally, an event to honor the only American Girl doll who eats challah and owns a samovar
The Museum of Jewish Heritage held a meet-up for owners of Rebecca Rubin, an American Girl doll with a Jewish immigrant story — and accessories to match
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Art The most beautiful new bagel shop in New York doesn’t have any bagels in it
British artist Lucy Sparrow’s Lower East Side pop-up, Feltz Bagels, is made completely out of felt and paint, down to the last sesame seed
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Culture An Oedipal tale of sex, violence, crooks, cutthroats and egg creams — set in the Jewish wilderness of the Lower East Side
Henry James makes a cameo appearance in Jerome Charyn's 'Ravage & Son,' though James might not have loved the novel
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Culture How this Romaniote synagogue keeps a Jewish ‘minority within a minority’ alive
Kehila Kedosha Janina, a small synagogue on the Lower East Side, represents a tiny Jewish community that lived in Greece for over 2,300 years
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Culture In remote North Dakota, endless sky, a few gravestones, and the remnants of a little-known Jewish history
While most Jewish immigrants flocked to urban centers, a few — like the Greenbergs — tried their luck as homesteaders
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Culture Fiction excerpt: The Baron of East Broadway, by Jerome Charyn
On the Lower East Side, Ab Cahan is once again the Pulitzer of Yiddish Land, the William Randolph Hearst of the Jewish ghetto
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