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wo Rs — for Reality and
Resonance — characterize
the 350 years of the Jewish
experience in Boston, from
the arrival, and speedy depar-
ture, of scholar and trader
Solomon Franco in 1649 to the
series of events memorializing
the centenary of the Combined
Jewish Philanthropies of Greater
Boston (CJP) in 1995.
Franco was cheated of his
wages and left penniless upon his
arrival at the Boston docks. The
town council voted him "six
shillings p weeke for tenne
weeks" for his subsistance and
then shipped him back to Hol-
land.
The Franco story is
contained in the
splendid, newly-pub-
lished The Jews of
Boston, a 350-page,
richly illustrated his-
tory edited by Ellen
Smith, curator of the
American Jewish
Historical Society,
and Jonathan D.
Sarna, the Joseph H.
& Belle R.
Professor of --
American ff
Jewish His- ,,L/Z.-.;
tory
at V
Brandeis
University.
The work, com-
missioned by CJP
for the centenary, is
the chronicle of a
long journey, from
the plight of a single
Jew to the progress
achieved by the
200,000 Jews who
presently constitute
America's sixth Jew-
ish largest commu-
nity. Franco's
immediate goal was
six shillings. The long-range goal
of CJP is $100 million, in a mul-
ti-year Cainpaign for Our Second
Century which has just been
launched.
Visitors to Greater Boston in
this centennial year will find the
reality of a visible Jewish pres-
ence in such suburban entities as
Brookline amd Newton, rather
than in Boston proper.
Brookline's Harvard Street,
most particularly, offers the tan-
gible reasssurance of kosher
restaurants like Rubin's Deli
(fleishig) and Cafe Shalom
(milchig), kosher bakeries, per-
fuming the neighborhood with
the bouquet of fresh-baked chal-
lah; a spectrum of synagogues
from the Lubavitch Congregation
Chai Odom to Temple Ohabei
Shalom, the oldest Reform con-
gregation in New England; famed
institutions, like the Maimonides
School, where the late Rav
Joseph B. Soloveitchik inspired
generations of students, and the
New England Chasidic Center,
run by the Bostoner Rebbe,
Grand Rabbi Levi Y. Horowitz.
Harvard St. is also the venue
of the multi-faceted Israel Book
Shop, whose proprietor, Eli
Dovek, can recommend the most
appropriate book gift for a bat
mitzvah, design your daughter's
ketubah or check your own tweed
jacket for shaatnes; and the Kol-
bo Gallery, displaying the finest
collection of contemporary
Judaica I have seen in any retail
shop anywhere.
A pleasant trolley ride — on
"C" of the MBTA Green Line to
the Coolidge Corner stop — will
bring the inquiring traveler to
Harvard Street in Brookline, it-
self one of the several towns, like
Newton and Salem, to which the
overwhelming majority of
Boston's Jews have moved in re-
cent decades.
In these sanctuaries distanced
from the inner cities, as in De-
troit's Southfield or the Bronx's
Westchester, a new reality of
Jewish life has been firmly es-
tablished. Certainly, on Harvard
Street, the evidences are mani-
fest. One needs no help in find-
ing them.