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Kiryas Joel ( Yiddish: קרית יואל, romanized : Kiryas Yoyel, Yiddish pronunciation: [ˈkɪr.jəs ˈjɔɪ.əl]; often locally abbreviated as KJ) is a village coterminous with the Town of Palm Tree in Orange County, New York, United States. The village shares one government with the Town. The vast majority of its residents are Yiddish ...
- Lowell, Massachusetts. The first truly planned company town was Lowell, Massachusetts. In the early 19th century, Francis Cabot Lowell, a merchant from Boston, visited factories in England to try to memorize and (illegally) bring back to the United States the technology he saw there.
- Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Hershey chocolate company needed milk, and so, Green explains, it gravitated toward an area with dairy farms. In 1903, Milton Hershey, who founded the company, began to build what would become the world’s largest chocolate manufacturing pla nt.
- Pullman, Illinois. In 1880, George Pullman, head of Pullman’s Palace Car Company, began to develop a company town in what was then open prairie and marsh land in Illinois.
- Lynch, Kentucky. The Kentucky town of Lynch was once a booming coal-mining site. Built in 1917 by U.S. Coal and Coke, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, it had a commissary, theater, hotel and hospital and a population of 10,000.
Jan 6, 2015 · Streit’s has a second factory in Moonachie, N.J., that produces macaroons, matzo ball mix and other popular Passover products, and it may be the site of new ovens, though Mr. Adler cautioned ...
Jan 11, 2018 · By any measure, Brooklyn is the most Jewish place in America. Approximately 600,000 Jews now call the borough home, down from an incredible 900,000 in the 1940s. One in four Brooklyn residents is Jewish, the largest proportion by far among New York City’s five boroughs, according to the most recent survey by the UJA-Federation of New York.
Jan 27, 2020 · The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York shares stories of death and life in "Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not long ago. Not far away," an exhibition of more than 700 objects, replicas and media ...
May 9, 2019 · This project will venture into the experience of the Jewish community from the mid Gilded Age to World War Two. It will look at the dynamics between the Jewish community and other communities prevalent in New York City during this time period, the Jewish factory working experience, and political movements that drew widespread Jewish interest.
As early as 1890 almost 80 percent of New York’s garment industry was located below 14th Street, and more than 90 percent of these factories were owned by German Jews. Lower New York, therefore, was a powerful magnet for the Eastern Europeans throughout the period of mass immigration. Immigrants were attracted by jobs and by Jewish ...
