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Washington Cemetery (Brooklyn)
Washington Cemetery is a historical and predominantly Jewish burial ground located at 5400 Bay Parkway in Mapleton, Brooklyn, New York, United States. Founded in Kings County in 1850, outside the independent city of Brooklyn, it became a Jewish burial ground as early as 1857, at first serving primarily German Jewish immigrants. Brooklyn's cemeteries were authorized under the Rural Cemetery Act of 1847, which allowed for the construction of commercial cemeteries outside what were then city limits. This part of Kings County was not yet incorporated into the City of Brooklyn, and the legislation resulted in the development of several large parcels of farmland as cemeteries. Later in the 19th and early 20th centuries, most Jewish immigrants came from the Russian Empire and Eastern Europe. Cemetery configuration Washington Cemetery is made up of five "gated cemeteries," separated by several local Brooklyn streets. The cemetery office building is located on the grounds of Cemeter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mapleton, Brooklyn
Mapleton is a neighborhood in southern Brooklyn, New York City, bounded by 16th Avenue on the west, Dahill Road on the east, 57th Street on the north, and 65th Street on the south. It borders Bensonhurst and Borough Park to the west, and Midwood to the east. The area was originally developed in the 1910s, and was sometimes called "Mapleton Park". Today, Mapleton is an ethnically diverse, mostly residential area with low-density housing. History The site of Mapleton was originally part of the town of New Utrecht in the 17th and 18th centuries. The area, as did the rest of Brooklyn, became part of New York City in 1898. Mapleton was developed in the early 1910s in conjunction with the construction of the Sea Beach subway line, which replaced a former surface-level railroad. Many of the homes were built on plots subdivided from former farmland. By 1914, there were dozens of single-family homes being constructed around the nearby subway stations. The eastern part of Mapleton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1844 United States Presidential Election
United States presidential election, Presidential elections were held in the United States from November 1 to December 4, 1844. Democratic Party (United States), Democratic nominee James K. Polk narrowly defeated Whig Party (United States), Whig Henry Clay in a close contest turning on the controversial issues of slavery in the United States, slavery and the Texas annexation, annexation of the Republic of Texas. This is the only election in which both major party nominees served as Speaker of the House at one point, and the first in which neither candidate held elective office at the time. President John Tyler's pursuit of Texas annexation divided both major parties. Annexation would geographically expand American slavery. It also risked Mexican–American War, war with Mexico while the United States engaged in sensitive possession and boundary negotiations with United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Great Britain, which controlled Canada, over Oregon Country, Oregon. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden (; born Avrum Goldnfoden; 24 July 1840 – 9 January 1908), also known as Avram Goldfaden, was a Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in Yiddish and Hebrew languages and author of some 40 plays. Goldfaden is considered the father of modern Jewish theatre. In 1876 he founded in the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia what is generally credited as the world's first professional Yiddish-language theatre troupe. He was also responsible for the first Hebrew-language play performed in the United States. The Avram Goldfaden Festival of Iaşi, Romania, is named after him and held in his honour. Jacob Sternberg called him "the Prince Charming who woke up the lethargic Romanian Jewish culture". Israil Bercovici wrote of his works: "we find points in common with what we now call 'total theatre'. In many of his plays he alternates prose and verse, pantomime and dance, moments of acrobatics and some of ''jonglerie'', and even of spi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Goldberg (New York Politician)
Mark Goldberg (c. 1879 – November 20, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Life Goldberg was born around 1879 in New York City. He lived in Manhattan since he was four and was active in local affairs since he was young. Goldberg attended New York University Law School, graduating with an L.L. B. in 1898 and a L.L. M. in 1899. After he was admitted to the bar, he opened a law office at 302 Broadway. In 1906, Goldberg was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Democrat, representing the New York County 18th District. He served in the Assembly in 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1919. While in the Assembly, he fought for and successfully passed the restoration of street car transfers and a cheap telephone rate for Greater New York. In 1913, he was a member of a joint legislative committee that devised legislation to prevent misconduct by the New York City Police Department. Goldberg had a wife and two childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Edelstein
Pauline Edelstein (February 10, 1866 – September 27, 1942) was a Yiddish theatre actress. Birth Born Pauline Finkelstein, in Iași, Romania on February 10, 1866, and died September 27, 1942, in Manhattan, New York. Her father was a "cutter" by profession. Marriage She was married to Joseph Edelstein, a Yiddish theatre owner, playwright and director. They had two children, Isidore Edelstein, who for a short time also acted in the Yiddish theatres, and Elias Edelstein, who worked with his father and later ran the Second Avenue Theater. Early life She learned in a "primary school" with her sister Amalia. Amalia married actor Zigmund Mogulesko. Through her affiliation with her sister she entered the chorus of Mugulesko-Goldfaden's troupes in Romania and Russia. In Russia she acted as Genendl in Shom'r's '' Der Katorzhnik'' and as Tamar in Joseph Lateiner's '' Di libe fun tzion''. America In 1886 she emigrated to America with her husband and continued to act in Yiddish theatre ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiddish Theater
Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Ashkenazi Jewish community. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta, musical comedy, and satiric or nostalgic revues; melodrama; naturalist drama; expressionist and modernist plays. At its height, its geographical scope was comparably broad: from the late 19th century until just before World War II, professional Yiddish theatre could be found throughout the heavily Jewish areas of Eastern and East Central Europe, but also in Berlin, London, Paris, Buenos Aires and New York City. Yiddish theatre's roots include the often satiric plays traditionally performed during religious holiday of Purim (known as Purimshpils); the singing of cantors in the synagogues; Jewish secular song and dramatic improvisation; exposure to the theatre traditions of various European countries, and the Jewish literary culture that had grown in the wake of the Jewish enlightenment (Haskalah). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Edelstein
Joseph Edelstein (, 1858–1940) was an actor in Yiddish Theatre in America. Early life Joseph (Yozef) Edelstein was born December 10, 1858, in Iasi, Romania, Iaai, Principality of Wallachia (the area would become part of the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia the next year). His father was a bookkeeper. As a small boy he went to "cheder". After completing primary school he attended a gymnasium (school), gymnasium. His father lent money to arriving folk singers and actors from Goldfaden's troupe. He came into contact with the actors of the "Yiddish theater". He was married to Pauline Finkelstein, who also acted in the Yiddish theatres. They had two children, Isidore and Elias. Isadore acted in the Yiddish theatres for a short time, and Elias worked with his father and later ran the Second Avenue Theater. America He and his wife emigrated to America in 1886. He became a ticket controller, and in 1889 he became the manager of the Windsor Theatre (Bowery, New York), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Blaustein (educator)
David Blaustein (May 5, 1866 – August 26, 1912) was a Russian-American rabbi, educator, and social worker. Life Blaustein was born on May 5, 1866, in Lida, Russia, the son of Isaiah Blaustein and Sarah Natzkowsky. Blaustein's father died when he was eight, and when he was seventeen he ran away from home and moved to Memel, Prussia to obtain an education. He then went to Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin and enrolled in a Jewish teacher's preparatory school under Dr. Fabian Feilchenfeld. He intended to be a cantor-shochet-teacher to German Jews, but when Otto von Bismarck banned Russian Jews from living in Germany he was forced to immigrate to America. He also studied Hebrew in the Lida heder and yeshiva, and when he first moved to Germany he studied Hebrew and rabbinical literature under Israel Lipkin. He came to America in 1886. Blaustein initially settled in Boston, Massachusetts, where he started a Hebrew and German school and became active in educational and communal work. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barney Bernard
Barney Bernard (August 18, 1877–March 21, 1924) was an American stage and screen actor. Bernard always looked older than he was which allowed him to play aging ethnic Jewish characters. He established an onstage partnership with Alexander Carr and the two starred in the successful play ''Potash and Perlmutter'' beginning in 1913. Prior to the 'Potash' success, Bernard was in the first Ziegfeld Follie revue, ''Ziegfeld Follies of 1908'' and had also appeared in a few stage musicals with Al Jolson, ''La Belle Paree'' (1911) with Kitty Gordon, '' Vera Violetta'' (1911) with Gaby Deslys, ''The Whirl of Society'' (1912) with Jose Collins. Bernard died in March 1924 while preparing to costar with Carr in the sequel to their film version of ''Potash and Perlmutter'' (1923) to be called ''In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter''.''Silent Film Necrology'', p.44 2ndEdition c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana Actor George Sidney was brought in to replace Bernard as Abe Potash. Filmography *''In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Post
The ''New York Post'' (''NY Post'') is an American Conservatism in the United States, conservative daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The ''Post'' also operates three online sites: NYPost.com; PageSix.com, a gossip site; and Decider.com, an entertainment site. The newspaper was founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, a Federalist Party, Federalist and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who was appointed the nation's first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of the Treasury by George Washington. The newspaper became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century, under the name ''New York Evening Post'' (originally ''New-York Evening Post''). Its most notable 19th-century editor was William Cullen Bryant. In the mid-20th century, the newspaper was owned by Dorothy Schiff, who developed the tabloid format that has been used since by the newspaper. In 1976, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp bought the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb, or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum. Overview The word ''mausoleum'' (from the ) derives from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (near modern-day Bodrum in Turkey), the grave of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Mausolea were historically, and still may be, large and impressive constructions for a deceased leader or other person of importance. However, smaller mausolea soon became popular with the gentry and nobility in many countries. In the Roman Empire, these were often in necropoles or along roadsides: the via Appia Antica retains the ruins of many private mausolea for kilometres outside Rome. When Christianity became domin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landsmanshaft
A landsmanshaft (, also landsmanschaft; plural: landsmans(c)haftn or landsmans(c)hafts) is a mutual aid society, benefit society, or hometown society of Jewish immigrants from the same European town or region. History The landsmanshaft organizations aided immigrants' transitions from Europe to America by providing social structure and support to those who arrived in the United States without the family networks and practical skills that had sustained them in Europe. Toward the end of the 19th and in the beginning of the 20th centuries, they provided immigrants help in learning English, finding a place to live and work, locating family and friends, and an introduction to participating in a democracy, through their own meetings and procedures such as voting on officers, holding debates on community issues, and paying dues to support the society. Through the first half of the 20th century, meetings were often conducted and minutes recorded in Yiddish, which was the language that al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
