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WE HAVE HAD A LOVELY FAMILY HOME IN CONNECTICUT…IT DATES FROM 1762 WITH MANY ORIGINAL FEATURES…BUILT AS A SCHOOLHOUSE BY A MR. GEORGE LAKE IT HAS BEEN OCCUPIED BY ONLY FOUR FAMILIES…THE LAKES, THE FULHAMS AND THE GREENS WHO SOLD IT TO THE KINGS. WHEN WE OCCUPIED IT IN 1969 WE FOUND A DIARY OF LETTERS TO ONE OF THE FORMER OWNERS. IT WAS DATED MARCH 25, 1936 IN WHICH THE CORRESPONDENT STATED THAT HE COULD NOT WAIT TO LEAVE “JEW YORK”….I GUESS THE MAN NEVER HAD A PASTRAMI ON RYE…..RSK
With a heritage that stretches back 400 years and vital contemporary community that’s reinterpreting old traditions for 21st century, Jewish New York features museums and historic sites, world’s largest menorah and trendy new Tribeca restaurant
Museums and historic sites, the world’s largest menorah, and a trendy new Tribeca restaurant inspired by an old-school Catskills resort. They’re all part of Jewish New York, with a heritage that stretches back 400 years and a vital contemporary community that’s reinterpreting old traditions for the 21st century.
New York City has the largest concentration of Jews in the world outside of Israel, according to the Jewish Databank, which put the city’s Jewish population at 1.4 million in 2002.
The stories of European Jews who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are relatively well-known and easy to find in places like the Lower East Side. But visitors with an interest in Jewish New York will also want to explore many other parts of the city, from the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn to a 17th century graveyard on a Chinatown sidestreet.