Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia
RabbiJewish Community Center
Touro Hall served as one of the centers of Jewish life in South Philadelphia's neighborhoods between 1890 and the 1940s. Many Jewish organizations held activities at Touro Hall including the Southern Branch of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association, an employment agency, assistance for recent immigrants, and multiple charitable efforts. It was used for Hebrew school, Sunday School, and English night school, trade schools for tin-smithing, carpentry, iron work, dress-making and millinery, garment cutting, upholstering, cigar-making, typewriting, stenography, and drawing, for lectures and entertainment, a University Extension, and a free synagogue.Community Hospital
Giuseppe Fabiani founded Fabiani Italian Hospital to serve the neighborhood's Italian community in 1904 in a building at 10th and Christian Streets. The hospital had moved to the southwest corner of 10th and Carpenter Streets and into Tours Hall by 1927. The name changed to Philadelphia Italian Hospital in 1936, and to Community Hospital in 1942. Community Hospital closed in 1968 and the building was demolished in 1977.Bardascino Park
The City of Philadelphia created Bardascino Park on the former Touro Hall site in 1978, named for Giuseppe Bardascino, longtime maestro of the Philadelphia Brass Band, and manager of the Philadelphia Italian Band who was a longtime resident of the neighborhood. The Friends of Bardascino Park formed in 1991 to beautify the park. In 1999 the group became a part of the Parks Revitalization Project, a collaborative partnership between the City of Philadelphia's Department of Recreation and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Philadelphia Green initiative. The group has secured multiple community partnerships and grants, renovated the park in 2003 and 2004, and has continued to maintain it. The park has an active bocce court and the park's summer bocce league began in 1997. Friends of Bardascino Park updated the park's sign at 10th and Carpenter Streets with more detailed history and maps in December 2020.References
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