Hebrew National Orphan Home
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Hebrew National Orphan Home (HNOH) was an orphanage in Manhattan in New York City.[1] It was founded on December 5, 1912, when a group raised $64 toward establishing a Jewish orthodox home for the care of orphaned and destitute Jewish boys. On October 14, 1913, a committee of the Bessarabian Verband, a group of Romanian Jews, paid the first installment of $400 for the premises at 57 East 7th Street between First and Second Avenues – in what was then the Lower East Side and is now the East Village. On June 7, 1914 HNOH House officially opened with accommodations for 50 boys. Later, the home bought a second tenement that backed onto the original building, creating an enclosed courtyard, and doubling the home's capacity to 100.[1]
On July 15, 1919, a facility on Tuckahoe Road in Yonkers, New York was purchased for $300,000. The home's 184 children moved to the new facility on July 26, 1920.[2]
In 1947, it changed its name to Homecrest then it merged with the Gustave Hartman home for children in 1956 under the name of Hartman-Homecrest and in early 1962 Hartman-Homecrest was merged into the Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA) of New York and the name HNOH after 60 years, was no longer used.
See also
[edit]- Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York - another Jewish orphanage in New York City
References
[edit]Notes
- ^ a b Greenberg, Ira A.; Safran, Richard G.; Arcus, Sam George, eds. (2011). The Hebrew National Orphan Home: Memories of Orphanage Life. Greenwood Publishing. ISBN 978-0897898171.
- ^ "Hebrew National Orphan Home". Yonkers Statesman. July 27, 1920. p. 4.
External links
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