The Boston Globe, July 21st, 1996
They're lowering the skylight onto the roof of the Vilna Shul in the new photo. Vilna is in Lithuania, and shul means "synagogue" in Yiddish. Lithuanian immigrants -- in many cases, they had fled to the United States from pogroms -- built the shul in 1920. Today, it's the only synagogue building in Boston to survive from the great era of immigration. Members of the Jewish community and friends are restoring it as a center for the preservation of Jewish heritage. Many of them stand before it in the new photo. In 1900, there were 53 Jewish houses of worship listed in the Boston city directory. I...
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