Thirty years after the first edition was published, Synagogues of New York’s Lower East Side: A Retrospective and Contemporary View, Second Edition (Fordham University Press) was released earlier this year. The author Gerard Wolfe shows how the Jewish community took root on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the late 19th and early 20th century by focusing on these beautiful buildings and houses of worship. It was Dr. Wolfe’s walking tours on the Lower East Side early 1970’s that led to the renovation of many synagogues in the neighborhood, including the Eldridge Street Synagogue. The Tenement Museum on Orchard Street hosted Dr. Wolfe for a signing and launch event for the book on 19 November 2012. These photos were taken from that event, and a visit to the Museum of Jewish Heritage earlier that day.
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Gerard Wolfe signs copies of Synagogues of New York’s Lower East Side at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
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Synagogues of New York’s Lower East Side on display at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
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Packed house for the Synagogues of New York’s Lower East Side launch event at the Tenement Museum
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Fans at the Tenement Museum.
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Gerard Wolfe told the story of the book, which was first published in 1978.
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Gerard Wolfe at the Tenement Museum.
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Fans at the Tenement Museum.
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Gerard Wolfe’s wife Cecilia.
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One of the book’s photographers, Jo Renee Fine, signs books.
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Fordham University Press director Frederic Nachbaur with Oxford Director of Client Services Kurt Hettler.
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Gerard R. Wolfe, Ph.D., is an architectural historian and former professor and administrator at New York University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He was the first to offer historical/architectural walking tours of the Lower East Side, beginning in the early 1970s. He is the author of The Synagogues of New York’s Lower East Side: A Retrospective and Contemporary View, Second Edition.
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