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Echoes from A Ghost Minyan: The Jews of South Philadelphia - On February 2, 1882 the S.S. Illinois docked on the foot of Federal Street on the Delaware River in South Philadelphia. Among the passengers on board were 225 Russian Jewish refugees. By the close of World War I almost 40 years later, this trickle of refugees had soared to over 100,000 Jewish immigrants, making South Philadelphia at one time the second largest inner city Jewish neighborhood in North America. This important,...
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