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Please look at this blog post from last year for resources on Jewish immigrants. - RS http://becomingamerica.edublogs.org/2010/10/11/additional-resources-on-jewish-immigrants-c-1900/

Some specific information on Jewish activity in Boston's North End []

This book contains many first hand accounts of Jews who actually lived in Boston's North End! []

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1915 Bromley Boston Map




Example Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Card- 1913

Two more HIAS Cards:

I also have the case file for this man who apparently was not allowed to join his brother in Nova Scotia after arriving in the United States... The file includes a few letters and so forth. Mr. Cohen (he apparently changed his name) lived in Salem St in the North End.

Temple B'nai Brith- [] Has artwork and other pieces FROM BALDWIN PLACE Has developed curriciulum for 7th grade sunday school class on the history of the synagogue (founders came from Baldwin Place in the North End)

Specific resources for lesson: Photographs Map of North End Political map of Boston's North End in 1890 vs 1920 and so forth Primary Source accounts

Working Bibliography (Secondary Sources) The Jews of Boston- Jonathan Sarna, Ellen Smith, Scott-Martin Kosofksy The North End: A Brief History of Boston's Oldeset Neighborhood, Alex Goldfield Becoming American Jews: Temple Israel of Boston, Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan, Susan L. Porter, Lisa Fagin Davis The Early Jewish Community of Boston's North End, Arnold Wieder

Photograph List: Where the photographs are now.... Goldfield: pg 124 (private collection) Sketch of the Baldwin Place Synagogue pg 146 (BPL Print department) PEDDLING Picture of a Jewish Peddler near the Wells House in the North End pg 147 (Vilna Shul) INSIDE the synagogue (Obtained photo) Sarna pg 187 (New England Antiquities, Boston MA) Photograph of the Baldwin Place Synagogue (same as sketch) OBTAINED PHOTO

Dwyer-Ryan pg 65 Temple Israel Archives (school children outside the Baldwin Place) I can obtain this photo but because of copywright I cannot post it publicaly. I will be allowed to use the photo in class and then get rid of it.

Jewish accounts of life in the North End (Wieder) 1. The reasons for immigration and the transformation of the North End to a Jewish community 2. Peddling as a primary occupation 3. Homes and family Life 4. Religion- tensions between younger and older generations 5. Schools and education