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Ways We Worship
The Museum's Ways We Worship is a dynamic new initiative focusing on Jewish practice in America. Step into the footsteps of the Eldridge Street Synagogue's immigrant parishioners. Learn about Jewish rituals, objects and culture first-hand. Discover how Jewish practice has been maintained, adapted and innovated upon in America. Encompassing a new tour, lectures and other educational experiences.
Preservation Detectives
Hunt for history in the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue in a fun-filled family program. Become a Preservation Detective and use a magnifying glass, binoculars and notepad, along with your ingenuity and imagination. Families will sleuth their way through our historic landmark and discover the past through interactive activities and art making. Each month features a different theme and reveals the mysteries of architecture, history, and Jewish culture.
Lost and Found Music
The Eldridge Street Synagogue was designed to highlight the voices of preeminent religious singers, or cantors. Lost and Found Music honors that legacy with concerts of Jewish music beloved by the Synagogue's turn-of-the-century parishioners, as well as other Yiddish musical forms that are at risk of disappearing. An annual festival highlights one musical instrument common to many, such as the accordion, fiddle or dulcimer, to build bridges across cultures.
July
Sunday • July 11 • 2pm
Jewish Lower East Side: Walking Tour
Follow in their foosteps. Once home to the largest Jewish population in the world, the Lower East Side still bears traces of Jewish life from the turn of the last century. Visit synagogues, Yiddish newspaper buildings, socialist hot spots and the best pickle shop in New York.
$15 per family
Thursday • July 15 • 7pm
Five Points in America
The roots of the community that would one day build the Eldridge Street Synagogue lie in the former Five Points area and today’s Chinatown. Stroll the streets of these historic areas, discovering traces of Jewish immigration at every turn. Visit former synagogues, an early collect pond and a cemetery right in Chatham Square.
$15 per person
Sundays • July 18 & 25 • 1pm
All of a Kind Family Fun: Walking Tour
Explore childhood turn-of-the-century style. Follow in the footsteps of Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie, the beloved sisters depicted in Sydney Taylor’s children’s classic All-of-a-Kind Family. Take to the streets on this neighborhood walking tour and discover where these immigrant girls lived, shopped, prayed, played and went to school.
Part of our Preservation Detectives family program.
$15 per family
Sunday • July 18 • 2pm
Sacred Sites: Walking Tour
Find sanctuary in the city. Visit synagogues, churches and temples encompassing 200 years of religious life in America, from early structures built by wealthy English landowners to houses of worship encompassing the Jewish, African American, Italian, Hispanic and Chinese immigrant experience.
This event is part of New York City’s 2010 Immigrant Heritage Week.
$15 per person
Thursday • July 22 • 7pm
Love and Courtship: Walking Tour
Love is in the air. Before eHarmony and JDate, there were love letters and elaborate courtship rituals. Discover romance turn-of-the-century style as we visit the sites of former dance halls, cafés, synagogues and other places where sparks once flew.
Admission: $20 per person
$20 in combination with a tour of the Museum
Sunday • July 25 • 2PM
Stoop, Synagogue, Soapbox: Walking Tour
Get ready to rumble. Enter the ring of the early 20th-century Lower East Side politics, when pious Jews, secular firebrands, capitalist businessmen and impoverished peddlers faced of in the crowded work spaces, residences and cafés of this densely populated area.
$15 per person
Thursday • July 29 • 7pm
Gangster, Writer, Rabbi: Walking Tour
Gangster Big Jack Zelig, writer Sholem Aleichem and Rabbi Jacob Joseph all lived and died on the Lower East Side, and all three attracted thousands to their funeral processions. Follow the path of these solemn marches, and learn about the political, cultural and religious legacies of these larger-than-life figures.
$15 per person
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