Coffee and cake in “Frankfurt on Hudson”
A New Life in Washington Heights, NYC
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While enjoying coffee, cake, card games and a pleasant entertainment program, those present will have the opportunity to talk about their concerns.
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Between the Nazis’ rise to power in 1933 and the year 1938, about 16.000 Jews had immigrated to the United States. Many German Jews had made their home in New York, especially in the neighborhood of Washington Heights in northern Manhattan, gaining it the nickname “Frankfurt on the Hudson.” The event schedule of the German-Jewish Club lists a “Family evening with Kaffee-Klatsch” which offers “artistic and musical interludes.” The event is geared towards the needs of the older members of the community, as “a substitute for lodge, singing club, social club and other associations,” promising participants an opportunity to discuss what they had on their minds. In addition to cultural activities in German, the massive influx of German-speaking Jews to Washington Heights led to the establishment of numerous new synagogues, beginning with “Tikvoh Chadoshoh”—“New Hope.”
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Institution:
Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin
Collection:
“Februar-Programm des Deutsch-Jüdischen Clubs”, Aufbau, no. 3, 4
Original:
Vol. 3, no. 4: 3
