Please note that this tour is sold out at this time.
Learn the history of Jewish Boston with guided walking tours, in partnership with Boston by Foot! Meeting place will be provided after registration. Tours are typically 90 minutes. Please wear comfortable shoes. Tours are rain or shine.
September 15: Jewish North End
Few Jews lived in Boston in the 17th and 18th centuries, and a permanent Jewish community didn’t establish itself here until the 1840s. The wave of migration from Eastern Europe of the late 19th century greatly enlarged the city’s Jewish community, and many of the new immigrants of this period moved to the North End. This tour will explore some of the stories of Boston’s Jewish experience from the 17th century through the early 20th century.
October 6: Jewish Beacon Hill
In the late 19th and early 20th century, the North Slope of Beacon Hill was a neighborhood that was home to a large population of Jewish and Italian new immigrants. This tour focuses on the Jews of the North Slope, who lived an active Jewish life with three synagogues within a few blocks of each other, carrying customs of their old world with them even as they made changes to he new world around them.
Spaces are limited, so register early! Vilna walking tours sell out!
In partnership with Boston by Foot.