Join us for a special virtual tour by the Tenement Museum of New York City. This interactive, high-tech experience will highlight the stories of immigrant women from the early 1900s. More details below.
The year is 1902 and the streets of the Lower East Side are alight with the protests of thousands of Jewish women. A hike in the price of kosher meat threatened the families of working-class mothers who, outraged, took matters into their own hands.
We will visit Jennie Levine’s tenement apartment, where she would’ve sought to keep her growing family fed in the wake of the rising meat costs. Then, we will explore the story of Goldie Lustgarten, her family’s kosher butcher shop in the basement of 97 Orchard Street, and the role they played in the Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902, which both divided and united Jewish Lower East Siders.
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