German-Jewish History on the Upper East Side & Yorkville

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German-Jewish History on the Upper East Side & Yorkville: a Guided Tour with Elissa Sampson.

Jews have been a presence on the Upper East Side (UES) since the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, when the Guggenheims, Schiffs, and Warburgs built urban mansions along the “Gold Coast” of 5th Avenue. After the Slocum Disaster of 1904, the German community of the Lower East Side, including many Jews, also moved to nearby Yorkville. Tour guide Elissa Sampson will lead an exploration of the architectural, cultural, and historical highlights linked to Jewish life in these remarkable neighborhoods, including mysteries and secrets along the way.Elissa Sampson, Visiting Scholar in Cornell's Jewish Studies program, is an urban geographer who studies how the past is actively used to create new spaces of migration, memory, heritage and activism. Her life-long interest in Jewish migration, re-diasporization and culture had been pursued in the Lower East Side, Brooklyn, Jerusalem, London and Paris prior to realizing Ithaca’s centrality to that map.This event is part of<a href="https://www.1014pastandfuture.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> 1014: Past and Future</a>, a weekend of architecture, culture and community. For more information about free upcoming tours and lectures, please visit the website above.

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