Description

We meet at the strictly kosher Milk Street Café, where you can choose to come early and have lunch or a snack before our tour.

We then ascend Beacon Hill’s “back side”, where Jews and blacks resided during the nineteenth century. Visit the historic Vilna Shul in the center of Beacon Hill and pass by some typical Jewish homes. You’ll see the West End House, where Boston ‘s West End Jews were provided social services and the Puffer House Cigar-Rolling Factory, typical of the work locales of Boston ‘s Jews.

We’ll go through Boston’s impressive and impactful Holocaust Memorial in one of Boston’s oldest neighborhoods and then conclude our tour at the entrance to the North End, which was a Jewish immigrant enclave before the arrival of newly arrived Italians transformed the area into a “Little Italy” around the turn of the century.

Highlights include:

• The Milk Street Café – a strictly Kosher Oasis in Downtown
• The Famine Memorial
• Home of The Jewish Advocate
• The Jewish “Back Side” of Beacon Hill
• Boston’s Historic Vilna Shul
• The West End House
• Puffer House Cigar-Rolling Factory
• The Holocaust Memorial
• Boston’s Immigrant Arrival Area – the North End

Tour Times: AS OF 1/1/19, THIS TOUR IS AVAILABLE ONLY AS A PRIVATE TOUR(approximately 2 hours, 2 miles)
Meeting Place: Outside The Milk Street Café, 50 Milk Street
Reservations: Call 1-866-WE-WALKS (1-866-939-2557)