Lower East Side Heritage Collection

A piece of LES history, lost.

http://www.boweryboogie.com/2017/05/assessing-the-scorched-remains-of-beth-hamedrash-hagadol-synagogue-on-norfolk-street-photos/

Assessing the Scorched Remains of Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Synagogue on Norfolk Street [PHOTOS]

THURSDAY, 4/20 @ 7pm...

NYPL, in collaboration with The Moth Community Program, presents: LES Stories Share! ...listen to some extraordinary stories from participants in our recent workshop.

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2017/04/20/lower-east-side-stories-shared-live-presented-nypl-collaboration-moth

LES Stories Share: Presented by NYPL, in collaboration with The Moth Community Program

Lower East Siders:

Join us Tomorrow at the Seward Park Branch of the New York Public Library for the Lower East Side Oral History Kick-Off to celebrate the launch of our historic neighborhood oral history project!

Thursday, January 19th at 6pm
192 East Broadway
New York 10002

**LISTEN to oral history highlights.

**PREVIEW images from the LES Heritage Collection.

**WATCH the 1974 LES-based film Yudie on 16mm.

**MEET neighbors, share stories.

**LEARN how to contribute as an interviewer or interviewee!

• RSVP at [email protected] or 212-621-0552

We'll be waiting for you on the second floor!

TOMORROW--Drop by the Seward Park Library for:

Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer

(16 mm color film, 1986, 58 minutes) Director: Judd Hirsch

This documentary examines the life and work of Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer. It follows the writer, now in his 80's, strolling the streets of his Upper West Side New York neighborhood, on speaking tours and at writing sessions. As Singer reminisces about his youth in Warsaw, his immigration to the United States in 1935, and his apprenticeship at the Jewish Daily Forward, the film interweaves dramatic sequences from the author's A Day in Coney Island, a short story based on his first impressions of America.



All Public Library Programs are free of charge.



Thursday, February 25

6:15 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Seward Park Library, Community Room