Enjoy a Jewish Historical Society of Michigan docent-led tour of this fascinating exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum and stay for the 2:30pm lecture about the Schlussel Bathhouse which featured Detroit’s first documented mikvah. The lecture will also provide information from the 2019 archaeological dig that recovered a fascinating and forgotten slice of history.

We will carpool from the Temple parking lot, leaving at 12:15pm. Attendees will pay their own museum admission and parking costs. Museum admission is $10/adult, $8/senior, $6/child and free for Detroit Historical Society members. Parking in the Detroit Historical Museum lot on Kirby St. is $9/car.

Questions? Please contact Anita Fishman.

In the Neighborhood: Everyday Life on Hastings Street takes visitors on a walk back in history to Hastings Street’s time from 1880-1930 as an enclave for Detroit’s Jewish immigrants, where everyday life was full of the choices, adversities, innovations, triumphs, tensions, and synergies that defined this incomparable place. Prior to 1930, Hastings Street, which later became a center for Black culture and commerce, was home to many immigrants, including working-class Jews who fled Eastern Europe driven by the terror and violence of antisemitism. This new exhibit, presented by Jewish Historical Society of Michigan, follows Jewish immigrants’ experiences from Europe to Detroit to Hastings Street. A fascinating blend of artifacts and storytelling gives visitors a rare peek into Jewish life of the period.