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November 29, 2023

When Jewish Lads Learned the Trades

The Hebrew Technical Institute for Boys and its mission.

In the late 19th century, American Jewish philanthropists founded a number of institutions for providing vocational training to Jewish children and teenagers, hoping to teach a new generation to work with their hands. Jenna Weissman Joselit describes the most prominent of these schools, established in New York City in 1884:

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