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    [Garment district executives eating and reading Yiddish newspapers, Hirsch's Kosher Delicatessen Restaurant, West 35th Street, New York]

    Object Name
    188
    Dateearly 1940s (printed 2012)
    Label Text

    Between 1880 and 1920, more than 2 million Yiddish-speaking Jews from eastern Europe came to New York. Living in close quarters on the Lower East Side, they invented a new kind of eating establishment based on German delicatessens, but which offered foods from across their former homelands. By the early 1900s, Jewish delicatessens had spread across the city, and could soon be found in many major American cities with large Jewish populations, often springing up around the garment districts where Jewish immigrants worked and ran the clothing trade. New York’s immigrant Jews essentially invented kosher delicatessens (nothing like them had existed in eEastern Europe), contributing to and fostering a sense of community and Jewish American identity throughout the twentieth century.

    Medium
    Inkjet print
    Dimensions
    Image: 10 x 9 3/8 in. (25.4 x 23.9 cm)
    Location
    place taken New York, New York, United States
    Credit Line
    Roman Vishniac Archive
    Accession Number2012.80.39
    Copyright
    © Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography

    For all uses of photographs by Roman Vishniac contact ICP at: vishniac_archive@icp.org.