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LOVE & COURTSHIP WALKING TOUR
August 20, 2009 | By Shaina | add your own announcement
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LOVE & COURTSHIP WALKING TOUR Lower East Side Walking Tour Explores Love at the Turn-of-the-Century
Sunday, September 6 at 2 PM at the Museum at Eldridge Street
How did your ancestors meet and marry? Did they exchange love letters? Did they rely on the help of a matchmaker? Did they meet in the workplace, or on the streets? Join us for Love & Courtship, a Lower East Side walking tour that visits turn-of-the-century sites where love blossomed and lifelong relationships were formed. From the Grand Street dance halls to the synagogues, parks and bustling streets where young people met, mingled and married. The tour draws on rich accounts from 19th- and early 20th-century novels, newspapers and Yiddish/English love-letter writing manuals to draw a rich portrait of turn-of-the-century courtship, love and marriage patterns. As the East European immigrants came to New York, traditional marriage arrangements gave way to more modern forms of courtship. In this period of transition, the Jewish Lower East Side was host to family-arranged marriages as well as dance halls where young people mixed freely and made their own matches.
Love & Courtship is presented by the Museum at Eldridge Street. The Museum, founded as the Eldridge Street Project in 1986, presents the culture, history and traditions of the great wave of Jewish immigrants to the Lower East Side, drawing parallels with the diverse cultural communities that have settled in America. Concerts, literary events, art installations, workshops for school children, and other cultural and educational programs at the site serve audiences of diverse ages and backgrounds.
Tickets for Love & Courtship are $15 and $12 for students and seniors.
For more information, call the Museum at Eldridge Street at 212.219.0888 or visit www.eldridgestreet.org.
WHAT: Love & Courtship is a walking tour of the Lower East Side that visits turn-of-the-century sites where love blossomed and lifelong relationships were formed. The tour paints a rich portrait of the courtship, love and marriage patterns on the Lower East Side of a hundred years ago.
WHEN: Sunday, September 6 at 2 PM.
WHERE: The walking tour will begin at the Eldridge Street Synagogue at 12 Eldridge Street, between Canal and Division Streets. By subway: F to East Broadway; B or D to Grand Street.
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