>Dear Vicki, >Thanks for going to the trouble to resend. That is a fascinating article, and >raises all sorts of questions. As a born and bred New Yorker, (yes, that >explains a lot) I consider myself half Yiddish by association. I grew up in >an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood in Queens, and there was no mention of >any such thing. Devon, are you home, and can you give information on this >aspect of lace in New York? I did not go to synagogue for the high holy days, >of course, being Christian, so I don't know what was shown, but it had to be >made somewhere. New York Jewish immigrants on the whole where from the early >1900's, pre Holocaust, and usually from Poland or Russia. Was Spanier Arbeit >not done there? What does it look like? The article does not include >pictures. How common is it now? I assume it adorned the Torah covers? > >Lyn from Lancaster, where it's spring. > >>Hi all, >Vicki Bradford wrote: >>For some reason, the link I sent yesterday put an extra character at the end >>which should not have been there. Try this instead: >> >>http://www.jewishpressads.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=17496
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