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The Home for Destitute Jewish Children is a historic orphanage at 150-156 American Legion Highway in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is a three-story Classical Revival brick structure, designed by John A. Hasty and built in 1911.
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Jewish Healthcare Center Chapel Eisenberg Assisted Living Residence. The Home was founded by Worcester's Jewish community leaders in 1914 as a home for Jewish orphans. In 1916, the community purchased a two-story home at 25 Coral Street and named it the "Jewish Home for Aged and Orphans." [2] [3]
In 1822, the Hebrew Benevolent Society was established by Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews to take care of Jewish orphans. [1] Conflicts between the two groups, however, delayed the creation of an orphanage for nearly forty years. In 1858, the kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara in the Papal States galvanized the group to establish an orphanage. A ...
The Hebrew Orphan Asylum is a historic institutional orphanage and former hospital building located in the Mosher neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.It has also been known as West Baltimore General Hospital, Lutheran Hospital of Maryland and is currently being redeveloped by Coppin Heights Community Development Corporation to be a Center for Healthcare & Healthy Living.
It was founded on December 5, 1912, when a group raised $64 toward establishing a Jewish orthodox home for the care of orphaned and destitute Jewish boys. On October 14, 1913, a committee of the Bessarabian Verband, a group of Romanian Jews , paid the first installment of $400 for the premises at 57 East 7th Street between First and Second ...
The orphanage was founded near the Bukharim quarter in 1900 [2] [3] by Rabbi Abraham Yochanan Blumenthal (1877 [4] –1966 [5]), a native of Jerusalem, [4] who led the orphanage for 50 years. [2] Blumenthal's wife, Shaina, served as a director for 40 years. [6] By 1920, the Blumenthal Orphanage was home to 85 orphans.
In 1876, the Jews' Hospital had merged with the Orphan Asylum, and the children from the latter also moved to Norwood. The numbers of Jewish children at Norwood increased from 159 in 1877 to 260 in 1888, and because of the increased demand, many had to be turned away. The institution was renamed the Norwood Jewish Orphanage in 1928.