Educational Alliance

197 East Broadway | also 193 East Broadway | Two Bridges | built 1900

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1. 1891

   The Hebrew Institute opens its building at 197 East Broadway

   The organization founded in 1889 as the Hebrew Institute opened its flagship building at 197 East Broadway in 1891 to serve Jewish immigrants arriving from Eastern Europe. It adopted the name Educational Alliance in 1893. In the summer of 1903 its rooftop garden, an open-air retreat from the crowded tenements, drew about 10,000 people a day.

   Source: milstein.yivo.org

2. 1905

   Eddie Cantor makes his stage debut at the Alliance's theater

   The Alliance started a Children's Educational Theatre in 1903; Mark Twain attended a performance and then joined its board of advisors. In 1905 the future entertainer Eddie Cantor made his stage debut in the Alliance's theater. Other young people who passed through its programs included the actor Zero Mostel and the broadcasting executive David Sarnoff.

   Source: Wikipedia

3. 1915

   March 8

   The Sun reports that over three million people pass through the Educational Alliance yearly

   In March 1915 The Sun describes the busy activity of the Educational Alliance on East Broadway. The paper reports that more than three million people go through the building each year. The Alliance was set up to educate immigrants and prepare them for citizenship.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1917

   Abbo Ostrowsky reorganizes the Educational Alliance Art School

   The Alliance's art school, begun in 1905, was reorganized by Abbo Ostrowsky in 1917. Over the following decades it trained some of the best-known American visual artists of the mid-20th century, among them the painter Ben Shahn and the sculptor Chaim Gross.

   Source: Wikipedia

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