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Article: NYC Synagogue Preserves Rich History
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- March 9, 2008
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JACKI LYDEN
NPR Weekend All Things Considered
03-09-2008
NYC Synagogue Preserves Rich History
Host: JACKI LYDEN
Time 19:00-20:00 PM
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JACKI LYDEN, host:
Eldridge Street is a tiny stub of a street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, close by the Manhattan Bridge. Today it looks more or less like any part of Chinatown. But cast your mind back to the turn of the last century when these narrow streets were the heart of New York's Jewish immigrant community.
Among the former tenements is an imposing Moorish-style building with tall finials spiking into the sky. When the Eldridge Street Synagogue opened in 1887, it was the area's first purpose built synagogue, and it shows. The ...
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