Historical Tour of Jewish New Bedford

Tour Outline

Text and pictures by Cindy Yoken, Co-director, Center for Jewish Culture and Judy Farrar, Archives and Special Collections Librarian, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Library, © 2005.

Project sponsored by

United Way of Greater New Bedford 
Community Building Mini-Grants Program
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Library and the Center for Jewish Culture

1. Introduction

2. Downtown

3. Peckham West

4. South End

• Ahavath Achim
• Original Tifereth Israel
• Jewish Community Center
• Segall Square
• New Ahavath Achim
• Kaplan Square
• Temple Sinai

5. North End

• Chesed Shel Emes
• Clasky Common Park

6. West End

• New Tifereth Israel
• Jewish Convalescent Home
• Jewish War Memorial
• Holocaust Memorial

7. Dartmouth

• Cohen Square

8. Historical Topics

• Eastern European Immigrants
• Hebrew Education
• Social and Charitable Organizations
• Jewish Service in the World Wars

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