Jewish Neighborhood Life
Jewish Neighborhood Life
THE SYNAGOGUE, THE BUTCHER, AND THE TRIPLE DECKER
Our narrators told rich, descriptive stories about the Jewish daily life and character of their neighborhoods. Their remembrances bring alive streets filled with shops, triple-decker houses, and Yiddish-speaking neighbors; describe weekly visits to synagogue and Hebrew school; and capture the bond and community spirit among Jewish families living close together and looking out for one another.
Hear about Jewish neighborhood life
“It was Jewish, Jewish, and Jewish in all 15 apartments.”
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“Back then, there were so many synagogues, shuls in the Dorchester area...[and] we never referred to them by their Hebrew name.”
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“My mother, if the truth be told, had three sets of dishes—milchig, fleishig, and Chinese food”
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“When peddlers or rabbis would come to Lynn—remember, Lynn had 10,000 Jews, then—they needed a place to sleep, and there was a sheltering home.”
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“I was very religious. We were Orthodox. So, I went to services every Saturday at the Hebrew School since I was very small.”
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“The three-family house in that area was to me an expression of what the history was.”
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