All posts tagged "Jewish history"
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3.2KArts and LeisureThe Working Girls Vacation Society: Keeping the ‘Sin’ Out of ‘Single’
During the Gilded Age, hundreds of thousands of young women worked long hours for low pay in sweat shops and factories. Some...
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18.6KArts and LeisureEight Fun Facts About the Insanely Talented John Singer Sargent
How did the paintings of John Singer Sargent ever fall out of favor? He created stunning watercolor landscapes and oil portraits that...
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67.5K1MassachusettsEmma Goldman Opens An Anarchist Ice Cream Shop in Worcester, Mass.
Emma Goldman could have made a fortune from her ice cream parlor in Worcester, Mass. It was 1892, and she was a...
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13.6K1Religion and Social MovementsThe First Hebrew Thanksgiving in America
Isaac Touro delivered a Hebrew Thanksgiving sermon on Nov. 28, 1765, praising King George III for protecting Newport’s Jews. His sermon took...
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20.1K1Arts and LeisureThe Saturday Evening Girls Make Pottery History
When Sara Galner first joined the Saturday Evening Girls Club, she had no idea she’d end up making pottery that sold for...
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34.9K13Business and LaborHow the Polish Immigrants Came to New England
Before Polish immigrants arrived in New England they had already made it to the Jamestown colony in Virginia as craftsmen. Over the...
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