150 years ago The Italian Opera has proved a success. Large and brilliant audiences have assembled nightly in this beautiful theater to listen to the soul-stirring music of the greatest composers. The early part of this week was devoted to Meyerbeer’s latest grand work, “Dinorah,” in which M’lle. Angiolina Cordier made her debut, and she [ Read More...]

150 Years Ago The building of a new temple is now a fixed fact. The site was selected with great care and bought notwithstanding the high price asked for it. It is located at the south-eastern corner of Plum and 8th streets, in the center of the city 142 feet on Plum street and 130 [ Read More...]

150 Years Ago The two greatest tragic artists of the American stage, Mr. J.W. Wallack and E. L. Davenport, close an engagement at this Theater Saturday evening, after a run of two weeks of the most unprecedented success. They have appeared in a series of Shakespeare’s master pieces together with a number of other sterling [ Read More...]

150 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Conway, two deservedly most favorite artistes, opened an engagement at this theater last Monday evening, after a considerable absence from this city. They have appeared mostly in the classic and higher walks of the drama, to very fair audiences. Mrs. Conway by her admirable conception of the [ Read More...]

150 Years Ago During the past winter the festivals and balls of the different Hebrew societies were well attended and very successful. The Young Men’s Literary Society opened the season with a fine literary, musical and social festival, which was brilliantly successful. This was followed by the annual ball of the Hebrew Benevolent Society, which [ Read More...]

150 Years Ago The Concert of Mr. Charles Kunkel, on last Friday evening in the Wesleyan College, was a most brilliant affair. The artist, who is the friend of Gottschalk and Moulder, the masters of the piano, delighted the large audience by a series of his own charming compositions. He played his “Bluette,” “The Fifer’s [ Read More...]

150 Years Ago It affords us great pleasure to announce the great success attending the engagement of the sterling artists, Mr. Couldock and his talented daugher, which is a convincing proof that the legitimate drama will be well patronized, when in the hands of such sterling artists. The beautiful Domestic Drama of the “Chimney Corner” [ Read More...]

150 Years Ago K.K. Bene Yeshurun this time as an exception, celebrated the second holiday, Sunday, April 5, met in the synagogue and – resolved to build a new temple, resolved it unanimously without dissenting voice, and nearly every member of the congregation was present. This is certainly a powerful demonstration of the union and [ Read More...]

150 Years Ago Happy holidays to the readers of The Israelite! May He who redeemed our fathers from the Egyptian bondage and led them through the perils of the first struggle for liberty and justice, protect all and each of you, gladden every heart and distill festive joys into every soul! The Feast of Passover [ Read More...]

150 Years Ago Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather during a part of the week, the house has been tolerably well patronized, and the management will produce, the first time this (Friday) evening, the beautiful spectacle of the “Seven Sisters,” which will be produced with new scenery, machinery, properties, costumes and appointments; it will be [ Read More...]