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Seller: BostonWalks
(Boston CityWalks)
Seller Description:
Boston CityWalks provides scheduled and custom walking tours of Boston. We give just the right mix of history, architecture and culture to bring Boston’s personality alive and make you feel a part of the city. We share our love for the city with facts, stories and humor that reflect the quirky nature that IS Boston.
The Boston Jewish Cultural Walking Tour is our newest endeavor. We combined our knowledge of the prejudice and culture of the city from its very beginnings, the impact of the immigration of key other groups to Boston (particularly the Irish), and interwove those and other factors to set the stage for the Jewish settlement of Boston and its future growth.
Boston CityWalks also does customized tours to your specifications. These personalized walking tours are perfect for Weddings & Engagement Parties, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Reunions, Family Get-Togethers, Graduations, Business Meetings, Conventions and other Special Events.
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Activity Information:
Activity Description
Join us for a cultural heritage walking tour through Beacon Hill’s “back side,” where Jews and African Americans resided during the nineteenth century. Visit the historic Vilna Shul in the center of Beacon Hill and pass by Jewish homes and neighborhoods. See the West End House, a settlement house where West End Jews were provided social services, and the Puffer House Cigar-Rolling Factory, typical of the work locales of Boston’s Jews.
We’ll go through Boston’s impressive and impactful Holocaust Memorial in one of Boston’s oldest neighborhoods and then conclude our tour at the entrance to the North End, which was a Jewish immigrant enclave before the arrival of Italians transformed the area into a “Little Italy” around the turn of the century.
Highlights include: - The Milk Street Café, a strictly Kosher Oasis in Downtown
- The Famine Memorial
- Home of The Jewish Advocate
- The Jewish “Back Side” of Beacon Hill
- Boston’s Historic Vilna Shul
- The West End House
- Puffer House Cigar-Rolling Factory
- The Holocaust Memorial
- Boston’s Immigrant Arrival Area, the North End
What Is Not Included?
Food and drinks are not included in the ticket price. If you would like to purchase lunch or a snack at the tour's meeting location (a kosher cafe), please arrive early and bring extra cash!
Meeting Location:
Milk St near Devonshire St (Boston, MA)
(Exact meeting location details will be provided immediately upon purchase of tickets.)
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