Landmark of the Spirit: The Eldridge Street Synagogue by Annie Polland Dybbuk and author of more than

and author of more than forty books

editor of the Jewish Daily Forward

Joshua Bell

Peer over her shoulder as she writes and draws a story about a brave girl

Landmark of the Spirit: The Eldridge Street Synagogue by Annie Polland Dybbuk and author of more thanThe first major history of the gloriously restored Eldridge Street Synagogue, the first synagogue in the United States built by east European Jews, has a seminal place in the history of American Jewry. New York Citys magnificent Eldridge Street Synagogue was built in 1887 in response to the great wave of Jewish immigrants who fled persecution in eastern Europe. Finding their way to the Lower East Side, the new arrivals formed a vibrant Jewish