Jewish Philadelphia by Linda Nesvisky

Author:Linda Nesvisky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.

City Tavern. Library of Congress.

Inside the City Tavern. City Tavern.

In the corner building to the left of the tavern once stood a market managed by the Gratz brothers, Barnard and Michael, who were among the most prominent and successful of Philadelphia’s first Jews. They rented their shop from the Quaker Isaac Norris, the man who chose the passage from Deuteronomy that is inscribed on the Liberty Bell.

Leaving the Welcome Park and the City Tavern area, let’s now walk north on Second Street for two blocks and then turn right on Market Street. Continue for one block. Here you’ll come to Front Street, on the other side of which is the Delaware River, with Camden, New Jersey, on the opposite shore. The otherwise anonymous commercial building on the corner where you’re standing occupies a site significant to our tour. Granted, the surrounding traffic is almost too noisy to let you think. Nonetheless, it’s now time to consider a prominent Jew of the Revolutionary War period: Haym Salomon.

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