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Research papers
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Students researched and wrote assignments on various topics related to Mashapaug Pond, the Gorham Manufacturing Company, and the Reservoir Triangle neighborhood.
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Lucy Boltz
Ora Star Boncore
Hannah Burn
Ria Fulton
Adriana Isaza
Lizzy Landau
Jen Lawrence
Chang Lu
Katharine Mead
Araceli Mendez
Aditi Pinto
Julie Pittman
Maria Quintero
Anya Ventura
Anna Wada
Nate Weisenberg
Sarah Yahm
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The Jewish community in Rhode Island has a varied history reaching back to 1658 when Sephardic Jews came from Barbados to Providence after hearing of Roger Williams’ commitment to religious tolerance. While this community eventually declined by the early 1800s, a new Jewish immigrant wave came by the 1840s from Germany followed by a mainly Russian and Eastern European Jewish migration during the 1880s and continuing into the 1900s. This Jewish community has largely moved out of the urban area of the South Side, of Mashapaug Pond area to suburbs or the East Side of Providence paralleling financial advancement. The Jewish community remains active through the Jewish Community Center on Sessions Avenue and a number of synagogues on the East Side, but their presence in the South Side has dwindles- reflected in the current decision of how to deal with the abandoned temple on Broad Street, once a pride of the community. In response to an article about the abandoned synagogue, George M. Goodwin, an editor of the Jewish Historical Notes thought it fitting that the synagogue moved with the community: “Given the migration of Jews from the former North End and South Providence to the East Side after World War II, it was inevitable that Sons of Israel and David, known casually as Temple Beth-El, would relocate closer to its members.” He defended the community against “Mr. Brussat’s suggestion that Congregation Sons of Israel and David, founded in 1854, is in decline or in senescence is foolish,” by asserting that the community still thrives, though not in the South Side.
[see attached file for further research and bibliography]
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The Jewish Community in Providence
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Congregation of the Sons of Israel and David Cemetery sits near the Pond, at 460 Reservoir Avenue. Why is it there? What is the Jewish history of the site?
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Lucy Boltz
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Congregation of the Sons of Israel and David Cemetery
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Jewish history
manufacturing
Providence Jewish community
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Oral history interviews
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A collection of excerpts from oral history interviews conducted by Brown University students in the class Oral History and Community Memory during the fall of 2011. We interviewed past and present residents of the Reservoir Triangle neighborhood and others with connections to Mashapaug Pond and the Gorham Manufacturing Company site.
Please check back often, since we will continue to add new clips to the site.
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Maria Quintero
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Robin Tagliaferri
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John Nicholas Brown Center, 357 Benefit Street, Providence, RI
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Robin Tagliaferri: He told stories about – well we believe, and my grandmother maybe reinforcing this, was that when he was was often mowing the lawn say on a lawn tractor type thing. That he'd hear some chinking noises. He would stop the lawn mower and lo-and-behold he would find on the ground silverware.
Forks and knives and spoons and probably things that people in the factory were tossing out that maybe they would go and pick it up on their way home from work, and they could make themselves maybe a set of silverware in time. My grandfather would collect them all. And we actually did have a big chunk of them at the house. They might still be saved. My dad might still have them. But they would be odd things here and there that someone would toss out the window and he would find them because they would jam in the lawnmower. So that was a fun story too.
So really outside of that just hard working people, setbacks of course but they were able to purchase their own house and have this wonderful property. So it was a, I think, a hard life. Lots of hard work but it was one that immigrant families did then and do now.
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Interview with Robin Tagliaferri
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Robin Tagliaferri shares stories about the experiences of her grandfather, Paolo, at the Gorham Manufacturing Company as he transitioned into working as the gardener. Paolo and Zelinda Tagliaferri were Italian immigrants to the United States at the turn of the 20th century. Paolo spend most of his life working for Gorham. He worked creatively in the Bronze foundry until he hurt his back and then served as the on site gardener. The strong family connection to Gorham is still remnant three generations later in Robin Tagliaferri. Robin attributes her artistic talents to her grandfather's own creativity and currently serves as the Executive Director at the Forbes House Museum in Milton, Massachusetts.
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November 1, 2011
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Gorham
Immigration
Paolo Tagliaferri