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City of Chelsea
A
Hello
on
this
bright
cold
fall
day.
My
name
is
ellen
robner
and
I'm
here
to
do
part
two
of
chelsea
jewish
tours
and
with
me
today
is
natalie
pardo
who's.
The
program
programs
manager
for
the
chelsea
recreation
and
cultural
council
and
natalie
will
be
translating
today
and
contributing
those
skills
to
the
tour.
So
thanks
natalie.
A
So
I
want
we're
beginning
today
at
the
williams
school,
the
williams
school
in
the
early
20th
century
was
the
largest
school
of
its
size
largest
school,
elementary
middle
school
in
the
country,
and
it
was,
as
you
might
expect,
filled
with
immigrants.
My
mother
started
the
williams
school
in
about
1930
and
she
spoke
no
english
at
that
time.
She
spoke
yiddish
and
with
before
long
she
spoke
english
quite
well,
and
her
parents
who
lived
in
this
country
for
over
50
years,
never
really
they
spoke.
B
A
A
A
She
wrote
poems
that
were
published
in
in
boston,
newspapers
and
when
she
was,
I
believe,
30
years
old.
In
1921,
she
published
the
promised
land
which,
in
the
atlantic
monthly,
which
came
out
as
a
monthly
serial
but
then
was
published
as
a
book
and
sold
about
85
000
copies,
and
it's
a
story
really
about
a
young
immigrant
girl
who
was
trying
becoming
american.
While
her
parents
stayed
pretty
traditional.
A
In
fact,
marian.
She
noted
in
the
book
that
her
parents
had
a
store,
a
little
grocery
store
around
the
corner
on
arlington
street
and
they
lived
behind
the
store.
The
family
lived
behind
the
store
and
she
said.
Customers
always
knew
that
if
her
mother
wasn't
there,
her
mother
ran
the
store
that,
if
her
mother
wasn't
there,
she
was
back
in
the
back.
You
know
taking
a
loaf
of
bread
out
of
the
oven
or,
as
she
said,
putting
some
salt
in
the
soup.
A
So
it
was
she
at
that,
but
but
mary
anton
really
was
very
concerned
with
embracing
american
modernity
and
talked
to
in
the
book
the
promised
land,
which
is,
I
think,
still
I'm
reading
lists
for
many
high
school
students.
Is
that
talks
about
the
tensions
between
traditional
life
and
the
modern
life
that
they're
finding
in
america,
and
she
was
a
big
advocate
for
modernity
and
one
would
say,
assimilation.
B
A
B
B
A
Matt
winers
jack
case's
shoes,
shapiro's,
beldell,
bloomberg's
furniture,
slayton's
promises
market,
where
my
grandmother
shot
buchanan's
pharmacy,
hawthorne
pharmacy.
It
was
just
one
small
business
after
the
other,
and
notably
women
were
very
much
involved
often
times
they
ran
the
business.
They
were
in
the
front
of
the
so-called
front
of
the
house,
and
the
men
were
in
the
back,
so
women
were
in
celesnex
rose,
seleznick
ran
the
business
and
her
husband
was
a
tailor
in
the
back
or
women
often
did
also
did
all
the
books
to
the
business.
It
comes
from.
A
It's
it
really.
The
fact
that
jewish
immigrant
women
were
so
involved
in
the
commercial
life
of
the
community
was
really
based
on
the
history
of
eastern
european
jewish
women,
who
not
only
ran
households
but
supported
families
in
markets
as
entrepreneurs
as
tailors
as
selling
eggs
selling
fish
whatever
they
could
do
to
help
their
families
survive.
What?
Because
their
husbands
often
did
not
work,
or
they
were
itinerant,
peddlers
and
would
take
off
for,
like
weeks
and
months
at
a.
B
B
A
There
were
also
on
this
street
is
alan's
cut
rate,
which
is
still
here
that
was
started
by
henrietta
gordon
and
her
husband.
Their
son
runs
the
business.
Now
we
had
around
the
corner
was
down,
the
street
was
hattie's
hat
shop
and
when
hattie
died,
her
daughter
charlotte
took
over.
There
was
mrs
gordon
who
was
a
caterer.
A
B
A
B
B
A
This
acros
a
little
further
down
the
street
on
broadway,
is
a
condos
that
was
were
once
the
I
think
called
the
broadway
theater,
and
that
was
the
home
of
a
yiddish.
Theater
immigrants
would
similar
to
what
the
pollinator
theater
is
doing
today
in
chelsea
they
had
productions
that
were
in
the
native
language
of
the
immigrants
in
yiddish.
A
And
those
productions
were
often
about
the
tensions
that
families
were
experiencing
coming
to
a
new
place,
the
challenges
they
faced
with
children
who
no
longer
listened
to
their
parents,
who
weren't
eating
the
foods
of
their
parents,
who
had
friends
outside
of
the
small
group,
and
they
were
they,
also
had
vaudeville
there.
They
had
jewish
touring
groups
of
dancers,
singers
for
comedians
who
would
come
and
entertain,
and
my
mother
told
me
she
remembers
as
a
child
going
with
her
parents
and,
like
he
said
my
grandparents
just
loved
it.
They
loved
it.
A
A
This
particular
this
particular
theater
was
owned
by
nathan,
gordon,
and
I
bring
up
his
name
and
we'll
hear
it
again.
He,
along
with
some
other
theater
owners,
made
a
lot
of
money
early
on,
because
movies
were
becoming
very
popular,
and
many
of
them
moved
from
this
area
of
the
city
to
prattville
and
then
from
prattville
to
brookline
and
newton.
A
Okay,
another
famous
person-
I
know
there
are
many
from
chelsea-
is
louis
b
mayer
who
went
on
to
become
a
huge
hollywood
producer
and
filmmaker
and
mogul
he's
kind
of
an
iconic
hollywood
figure.
Louis
v
mirrer
came
to
chelsea
with
his
family.
Via
they
left
russia,
they
went
to
liverpool,
then
they
went
to
new
brunswick
and
then
they
landed
in
chelsea,
and
he
was
also
he
was
a
teenager
at
the
time.
A
A
B
D
A
A
B
A
One
is
is
that
it
was
pretty
inexpensive.
It
was
chinese
restaurants
throughout
the
20th
century
really
were
most
especially.
The
early
part
were
mostly
found
in
urban
areas
where,
where
immigrants
lived-
and
they
were
open-
also
all
the
time
open,
late
and
open-
I
I
believe
sometimes
they
were
even
open
on
sunday,
so
for
jews.
That
was
great
because
everything
else
was
closed
on
sundays.
B
B
B
A
So,
at
the
same
time,
oftentimes
people
would
keep
kosher
in
the
home,
but
they
would
eat
out
whatever
they
wanted,
which
always
confused
me,
because
I
always
felt
like
it
was
the
same
stomach.
I
didn't
understand
that,
but
my
mother
always
said
she
just
wanted
to
keep
a
household
where
my
grandparents
felt
comfortable
eating.
A
B
A
They
took
the
foods
they
knew
in
eastern
europe,
which
were
very
abundant
here.
Unlike
eastern
europe,
corned
beef,
basically
pickled
brine
meats,
salads
and
they
adapted
it
to
the
american
ameri
life
in
america
and
most
of
the
delis
here
were
not
kosher.
They
were
what
started
to
become
known
as
kosher
style.
In
other
words,
you
could.
The
meat
wasn't
declared
kosher
by
a
rabbit,
but
it
was
a
similar
style
as
if
it
was
closure.
B
A
And
on
broadway,
we'll
walk
by
the
what
was
the
apollo
and
then
became
shapiro's
beldell,
which
is
a
very
popular
delicatessen,
also
fox's,
delicatessen
and
further
down
over
here
was
murray
and
eddie's
delicatessen.
That
was
started
by
the
rosenberg
brothers
after
world
war
ii
when
they
started
on
central
ave
and
it
became
so
popular
they.
They
took
a
bigger
space
down
here
on
broadway
and
ran
it
here
for
a
while.
Not
that
long,
though,.
A
What
happened
was
that
by
the
time
they
moved
here
in
the
early
70s,
the
jewish
population
in
chelsea
had
started
to
dwindle
and
eventually
they
just
there
weren't
enough
customers
and
also
the
city.
They
had
a
fire,
and
the
city
gave,
I
think,
gave
them
a
hard
time
and
the
business
closed,
even
though
they
had
had
really
big
expectations
that
they
would
become
a
major
destination.
But
it
didn't
happen.
A
The
other
kind
of
food
business
that
was
very
common
here
were
bakeries.
There
was
the
broadway
pastry
shop
down
the
street,
where
I
think
is
it
tito's
tito's?
Is
there
now
there's
there
was
kate's
bagels,
which
is
fortunately
still
here,
and
there
was
the
central
ave
bakery
on
central
ave
and
the
chicago
bakery
on
arlington
street.
Those
are
the
main
areas
where,
mostly,
where
jews
lived.
B
A
A
And
the
pastries
were
also
kind
of
a
mix
of
traditional
european
jewish,
pastries
and
american
pastries.
So
you
had
things
like
what
we
could.
We
called
half
moons
or
black
and
white.
There
were
big
cookies,
half
the
half
of
it
has
chocolate.
Frosting
and
half
has
vanilla
frosting.
You
can
still
see
those
lemon
squares,
arugula
apple
turnovers,
so
it
was
kind
of
a
mishmash,
but
always
on
friday
for
the
sabbath
palace,
which
is
a
yeasted
egg,
bread,
that's
kind
of
sweet,
a
festive
bread
that
jews
eat
at
holidays
and
on
the
sabbath.
A
The
other
food,
the
last
food
I'll
mention-
although
there
are
many
many
more
it
was
smoked
fish.
It's
I
think
most
americans
know
it
now
as
lux
or
blacks
and
smoked
fish
and
bagels
on
a
sunday
morning
was
or
saturday
night
was
very
popular
in
chelsea
had
for
about
60
years
was
the
home
to
revere
smoked
fish
company
on
williams,
street
owned
by
the
levine
family
rose
and
saw
levine
and
in
their
heyday
they
were
selling
5
000
pounds
of
smoked
salmon
a
week
wholesale
in
retail.
B
A
A
I
remember
going
in
there
with
my
mother
to
buy
smoked,
white
fish,
sable
fish
smoked
salmon
and
his
daughter
celia,
who
had
gone
to
high
school
with
my
father
and
was
working
there,
and
I
just
remember
her
hands
that
were
soft
and
pink
and
reaching
in
to
pull
out
a
greasy
big
white
fish.
And
she
would
say
I
I
have
a
fat
one
for
you.
B
A
We're
standing
in
front
of
a
condominium
building
in
chelsea
and
at
one
time
this
was
the
chelsea
hebrew
school,
a
freestanding,
after-school
program,
school
for
to
educate
young
jewish
children
on
about
jewish
life
and
torah
the
jewish
bible.
So
they
the
hebrew
school
chelsea
hebrew
school
was
founded
in
1896
by
monas
and
gupty
berlin.
It
was
founded
way
down
on
on
medford
street
and
then
in
1922
after
the
fire,
when
the
city
was
still
in
a
in
the
process
of
being
rebuilt,
people
bought
this
lot
of
land.
A
It's
kind
of
amazing,
it
tells
us
a
few
things.
One
is
that
it
was
a
primo
piece
of
property
because
it
was
right
across
from
city
hall,
which
was
rebuilt
to
look
like
independence
hall
in
philadelphia,
and
it
was.
It
also
tells
us
that,
by
by
that
time,
the
jews
had
already
started
to
have
some
influence
and
resources
to
start
their
own
school,
where
children
went
tuesday
through
six
days
a
week,
tuesday
through
sunday.
I
believe
after
school
until
about
five
o'clock.
A
A
A
A
So
and
it
also
displaced
many
people
down
around
near
walnut
street
chestnut
street,
it
displaced
many
people,
many
of
them
who
were
older
and
they
either
left
the
city
or
went
into
some
kind
of
senior
care
or
went
to
live
with
their
children.
So
that
was
there
was
a
big
reduction
in
the
population
because
of
the.
A
So
families
started
moving
away
from
their
parents,
so
what,
prior
to
world
war
ii,
it
was
not.
It
was
pretty
typical
that
multi
generations
of
families
either
lived
in
the
same
house
or
lived
in
the
same
community,
worked
in
the
same
worked
in
chelsea
as
well
and
businesses,
but
after
world
war
ii
that
started
to
change.
A
Many
of
the
jewish
men
here
as
we've
talked
about
were
small
business
owners,
but
their
children
were
becoming
college
educated
and
they
were
becoming
professionals.
I'm
sure
you've
heard
the
expression,
women,
women
and
men
saying
well
my
son,
the
doctor,
and
that
speaks
to
the
interest,
the
desire
to
have
professional
children
who
did
not
have
to
work
six
days
a
week
from
you
know,
six
in
the
morning
until
six
nights.
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
They
also
had
sports
a
lot
of
athletic
activities
here.
They
had
two
two
different
groups
of
teenage
boys.
They
were
part
of
the
american
zionist
association,
known
as
aza
and
chelsea
had
not
one
but
two
groups.
They
had
the
clovers,
the
chelsea
clovers
and
also
the
chelsea
lou
bells,
both
of
whom,
when
I
was
in
high
school,
were
known
for
being
quite
wild,
quite
almost
troublemakers
but,
of
course,
very
appealing
to
many
teenage
girls.
A
B
B
E
D
E
C
E
So
the
contractor
said,
did
you
know
blah
blah
blah
and
he
was
talking
about
the
post
and
beam
foundation.
He
said
this
side
must
be
more
like
1770,
something
like
that.
But
when
we
looked
above
where
the
drop
ceiling
was
there
were
stained
glass
windows
in
this
wall,
which
proves
that
there
was
no
hallway
there
and
that
this
building,
at
least
for
a
long
time,
stood
by
itself
and
that
building
was
an
additional
building
because
there
were
outside
windows
all
along
here.
So
I'm
all
along
that
hallway.
C
C
So
it's
got
an
interesting
history
and
then
in
1939,
the
second
generation
jews
who
didn't
want
the
orthodox
type
of
approach
who
had
formed
their
own
informal
worship
congregation
at
the
hebrew
school,
the
chelsea
hebrew
school.
They
had
enough
money
saved
up
to
buy
this
building
from
the
methodist
episcopal
church
in
1939,
and
that
was
the
beginning
of
the
modernization.
A
A
Is
that
the
changes
that
were
happening
here,
which
were
men
and
women
sitting
together
in
services,
not
separated
like,
as
we
saw
at
walnut
street,
the
women
sitting
upstairs
and
the
men
downstairs,
but,
and
also
the
liturgy,
was
a
lot
of
it
was
in
english,
not
just
in
hebrew,
but
it
foreshadowed
early
on
in
the
40s.
It
foreshadowed
major
changes
in
american
judaism
that
happened
throughout
the
country
of
more
the
secularization
of
american
jews.
E
What
I
wanted
to
mention
is
that,
from
what
I
understand,
the
congregation
was
founded
in
the
old
chelsea
hebrew
school,
which
was
called
the
talmud
in
1927
we
just
found
out
and
in
1929
they
built
the
building
on
crescent
avenue
as
temple.
I
think
congregation,
beth,
l,
yeah
and
that
was
supposedly
opened
as
an
orthodox
congregation
similar
to
the
other
ones
and
for
ten
years
they
waited,
and
then
they
eventually
bought
this
building
that
was
unoccupied
in
1939
and
officially
became
conservative,
where
everyone
would
be
sitting
together.
C
E
With
pen
and
quill
in
the
front
and
the
back
in
handwriting,
there
are
bass
mitzvahs
that
were
boss.
Mitzvahs
were
when
the
girls
were
confirmed,
which
wasn't
accepted
in
the
orthodox
tradition
and
the
robustness
that
happened
in
those
10
years
and
it's
who
and
the
name
and
the
date
and
they
have
been
kind
of
in
a
secret,
more
underground
way
when
they
were
in
that
other
building.
So
it
was
kind
of
like
the
americanization
of
the
first
generation
in
this
country
and
their
children
and
their
grandchildren.
E
F
A
A
But
what
were
they
losing?
What
kind
of
sense
of
community
sense
of
family
were
they
losing
in
the
process?
And
it's
interesting
to
me
that
here,
when
so
many
people
well
pete.
So
many
of
the
families
who
were
here
were
really
experiencing
those
tensions
on
a
on
a
daily
basis
where
they
were
older
parents
and
younger
children,
and
they
were
going
off
in
kind
of
different
directions.
A
F
F
F
F
F
A
A
A
I
want
to
point
out
also
the
windows
here.
These
are
the
stained
glass
windows
that
I
think
really
were
left
from
when
it
was
a
church
they're,
not
all
that
common
in
jewish
houses
of
worship.
But
if
you
notice
each
window
has
names
of
families
and
individuals
on
them
and
they
were
all
donated
by
members
of
the
congregation
in
honor
of
a
child
being
born
in
honor
of
a
graduation
and
memory
of
a
loved
one
who
was
lost.
It
was
a
way
for
the
congregation
to
help
support
itself,
and
you
can.
A
B
F
One
of
our
projects
that
we
are
working
on,
we
have
many
projects.
One
of
them
is
to
create
the
historical
exhibit,
because
we
found
in
sorting
out
entire
temple
last
year
before
carved
started.
We
found
so
many
interesting
unusual
arts
effects.
The
oldest
czechs
were
found
from
1937
and
they
still
around
so
the
old
prayer
books.
I
found
an
amazing
haggadah
that
we
use
on
passover
seder
it's
like
a
book,
but
it's
just
beautiful.
F
C
C
A
F
A
A
D
A
In
1945,
who
was
loved
and
revered
by
by
many
people
and
also
the
jewish
community,
and
at
that
time
the
jewish
community
was
not,
and
the
american
jewish
community
was
not
aware
that
he
had
not
allowed
boats
of
refugees
of
people
escaping
nazi
germany
to
come
to
the
united
states.
We
didn't
know
that
then,
but
that
said
people
attributed
moving
from
the
depression
and
basically
winning
the
war
to
fdr.
So
he
was
a
much-loved
president
and
temple
emmanuel
honored
him
with
that
plaque,
and
I.
F
A
The
book
of
life
marks
major
milestones
in
families.
Individuals,
families
in
the
communities
lives
starting
with
births
going
through
graduations,
going
through
birthdays
going
to
bar
and
bat
mitzvahs
going
through
anniversaries,
going
for
special
birthdays
and
go
and
also
marking
people's
deaths.
So
it's
beautifully
inscribed
throughout
here,
which
you
know.
It's
really
like
a
it's
a
story.
It's
a
wonderful
story.
A
Anyway,
so
this
this
building,
this
congregation
is
a
beautiful
beautiful
example
of
the
diversity
in
chelsea
through
the
ages.
That
chelsea
didn't
just
become
a
diverse
multicultural
city
that
it
has
been
this
way
pretty
much
since
its
inception
in
the
1700s-
and
I
love
to
look
around
here,
because
you
can
see
the
layers
of
you
know.
A
new
england
style
church
that
for
most
of
the
20th
century
now
has
been,
and
the
21st
has
been
a
jewish
synagogue.
F
And
today
we
are
about
100
families
more
or
less.
We
are
still
trying
to
count
a
very
warm
in
yiddish.
We
say
hamish
very
friendly,
warm
community
that
still
exists,
and
some
people
very
get
very
surprised.
Really.
They
are
jews
in
chelsea
still-
and
I
said
yes,
we
still
exist
here
so
welcome
and
come
in
anytime,
especially
after
covert.
I
think.
A
Well,
the
world
war-
one
was,
you
know
the
first,
the
first
jewish
boy
to
die
in
world
war.
One
was
a
young
man,
I
don't
even
know
if
he
was
20
years
old,
yet
his
name
was
max
address
and
they
used
to
have
a
memorial
used
to
be
at
third
and
and
everett
ave,
but
it
was
moved
and
I
thought
it
was
here,
but
we'll
we'll
see
it's.
A
There's
not
there's
not
a
real
desire
to
keep
everything
because
people
wanted
to
become
here
wanted
to
become
american
and
they
let
a
lot
of
things
go.
So
there
are
not
as
many
records
of
this
of
chelsea's
jewish
community,
as
one
might
think.
So
we
really
cherish
all
of
this
and
and
the
stones
that
sierra
lee
just
mentioned
outside.
B
A
We're
standing
in
front
of
a
private
home
which
at
one
time
was
a
yeshiva,
a
shiva,
is
a
jewish
day
school,
similar
to
a
parochial
school
and
in
1940.
The
walnut
street
synagogue
imported.
A
young
rabbi
from
new
york
city,
whose
name
was
rabbi
avraham
miller,
and
he
was
an
orthodox
rabbi
and
they
had
him
come
because
they
were
afraid
that
the
young
people
were
becoming
too
assimilated.
B
B
A
When
they
opened
the
yeshiva,
also
known
as
the
torah
talmud
academy,
they
marched
from
the
chelsea
hebrew
school.
Where
we
visited
down
on
the
corner
of
broadway
and
chestnut,
they
marked
300
people
marched
through
the
streets
here,
carrying
three
taurus
three
religious
scrolls
to
open
this
new
school.
A
The
ribbon
cutting
ceremony
was
attended
by
very
prominent
people,
the
mayor
of
chelsea.
At
that
time,
dr
bernard
sullivan,
really
encouraged
everybody
to
support
the
new
school
and
one
of
the
one
of
the
co
one
of
the
philanthropists
who
had
contributed
a
lot
of
money
was
a
man
named
harry
kraft,
who
was
had
a
dress
factory
in
boston,
and
he
was
the
father
of
robert
kraft,
who
we
most
of
us
know
is
the
owner
of
the
patriots.
A
So
in
the
1950s
I
went
to
preschool
here,
along
with
many
other
young
jewish
people,
and
also,
I
remember,
going
to
east
boston
in
our
this
in
the
station
wagon
that
picked
us
up
picked
me
up
at
the
burma
road
projects
to
take
me
here
and
made
a
stop
in
east
boston
to
pick
up.
Students
in
east
boston.