A community remembered
The volume
A community remembered
A 1957 family seder opens onto the Jewish history of Chelsea, Massachusetts, through memoir, social history and Arnie Jarmak’s documentary photography.
Centered on the Afromovitz family’s Passover table on Fourth Street, the volume moves through immigration, family life, religious and commercial institutions, postwar dispersal and the arrivals that remade Chelsea.
EraJewish Chelsea
PlaceChelsea, Massachusetts
SeriesVolume 3 of 4
The record / Volume 3
What this
volume holds.
- 01Jewish immigration
- 02Passover and family memory
- 03Postwar dispersal
- 04A city remade by arrivals
Why it matters
The final seder gives the city’s large historical forces a human scale. One family table opens onto the American experiment: arrival, belonging, mobility, memory, and the tension between promise and loss.
From the approved cover
Two communal portraits on the official cover preserve both celebration and continuity across generations.