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Our Jewish Walking Tours Brochure
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Give Your Audience
the Jewish Inspiration
Do a Mitzvah--
Encourage Jewish Cultural Literacy
Dr. Philip E. Schoenberg, Director
The Jewish Maven
(718) 591-4741
(888) DRPHIL5 (377-4455)
www.jewishmaven.com
www.nycwalks.com
Philip E. Schoenberg, Ph. D.
The Jewish Maven and
New York Talks and Walks
65 45 Parsons Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11365
(718) 591 4741
(888) DRPHIL5 (377 4455)
www.jewishmaven.com
www.nycwalks.com
About Our Founder
Philip E. Schoenberg, a professional speaker and a licensed New York City Tour Guide, received his PhD in history from New York University. He is a leading expert on Jewish history and culture. Dr. Phil has a special skill for entertaining and informing people about the Jewish experience with real life stories and folk tales as well as leading exciting tours.
About Our Company
Our company offers walking tours and programs to entertain and educate you about Judaica. They may be customized to suit the needs of your association or group. We employ leading speakers, guides, and experts on the Jewish experience.
What People Say about Us
Touring the Lower East Side with Dr. Phil is not only like learning history again, it's like reliving it as well. Alas, if only more of our college history courses were as interesting. and offered as much useful exercise."
--Mel Elfin Editor Emeritus U.S. News College Guides
[Dr. Phil] "takes you on a fascinating trip in time" and "what really makes his historical walking talking tours worthwhile and different is the joy with which he conducts them."
--Albor Ruiz, The New York Daily News
A tour with Dr. Phil¡¦s New York Talks and Walks on the Jewish Lower East side is a wonderful combination of nostalgia, humor, fun and exercise.
--Anita Jacobs, Ph. D.
Executive Director of the New Jersey-Israel Chamber of Commerce
Walking Tours
Jewish Lower East Side Talk and Walk
Visit sites that mark the birthplace of Jewish civilization in America such as synagogues and food emporiums. View a synagogue known as the "Carnegie Hall of Synagogues" where Richard Tucker and Jan Peerce got their start.
Jewish Gangsters
Examine the underside of Jewish immigrant life as we deromanticize such Jewish gangsters as "Little" Augie, "Bugsy" Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Arnold Rothstein, "Kid" Dropper, and a feminist pioneer in organized crime, "Mama" Mandelbaum.
When Harlem was Yiddish
Discover the rise and fall of the world's first Jewish suburb in the world between 1870 and 1930. See the former synagogues, shops and homes of the Jewish immigrants and their children in what was once the greatest Jewish community in the USA after the Lower East Side at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Abe Cahan's Yiddish New York
Discover where Abe Cahan gave his first speech on socialism, labor and trade unions in America, his newspaper the Daily Forward was published, and see where he lived. Learn where his contemporaries Emma Goldman, Molly Picon, Lee J. Cobb, Meyer Lansky lived and labored.
Emma Lazarus Country
Discover the Jewish presence in Greenwich Village from the Jewish Cemetery of the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue to the current residence of former Mayor Koch and the former home of Emma Lazarus. We will view a tree in Washington Square Park where Mordecai Manual Noah, a Jewish sheriff of New York County, used to hang criminals. We will also see the original Triangle Shirtwaist factory site. Discover the George Washington connection to the Jewish people.
The Hidden Jewish Treasures of Chinatown
This neighborhood is more than just a great place to eat! See where Al Jolson and Irving Berlin were once singing waiters in a local cafe as well as an eighteenth century merchant's mansion. See the Five Corners, the home of Irish, Italian, Jewish, and Chinese gangs. Learn about George Washington's connection to the area and to the Jewish people. . We will pay our respects to the Second Cemetery of Shearith Israel.
Yiddish Theater Tour
Go inside a former Yiddish theater and see the home of the Hebrew Actors Union as well as the Yiddish Theatrical Walk of Fame.
Jewish Ellis Island
Explore the Jewish immigrant experience on Ellis Island and Castle Garden.
Our Tours are Sponsored by
Aron Streit, Inc
Congregation Chasam Sopher
East Broadway Bakery
Economy Candy
First Roumanian American Congregation
G & M Butcher Shop
Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogueand Museum
Kossar's Bialys
The Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts
The Pickle Guys
Russ and Daughters
Schapiro Wine Cellars
Yonah Schimmel's -- the Downtown Knish
Book The Jewish Maven
Philip E. Schoenberg, Ph.D., Director
The Jewish Maven and
New York Talks and Walks
65 45 Parsons Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11365
(718) 591 4741
(888) DRPHIL5 (377-4455)
www.jewishmaven.com
www.nycwalks.com
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