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Whitelock Street in Reservoir Hill was once a haven for Jewish merchants. (Photo courtesy of Steve Liebowitz)
Steve Liebowitz remembers when Whitelock Street in Reservoir Hill brimmed with Jewish enterprise.
Read MoreOnline shopping is fine and easy, but nothing will ever replace the raw experience of stepping into a great Hebrew bookstore and Judaica shop, writes Steve Liebowitz.
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Adult immigrants take a class at the Jewish Educational Alliance in East Baltimore in August of 1935. (Photo courtesy of The Associated)
Founded in 1909, the JEA provided athletic clubs, drama groups, citizenship classes and more for Jewish immigrants living in East Baltimore.
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The Pikes became a first-run theater in 1958, featuring such classics as "The Graduate," "The Producers," "Blazing Saddles," "Hester Street" and "The Frisco Kid."(Photo by Terrell D. Anderson)
Steve Liebowitz remembers the Jewish neighborhood movie houses that were once part of the fabric of Baltimore’s entertainment scene.
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Old common mezuzah cases such as this one can be found on doorposts and thresholds throughout the now largely non-Jewish neigh-borhoods of Baltimore. (Photo by Pretoria Travel)
Walk around the former Jewish neighborhoods of Baltimore and you’ll still find traces of Jewish life there.
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Steve Liebowitz: Time traveler for the entertainment palaces and stars of yesteryear. (Photo by Steve Ruark)
Steve Liebowitz has a passion for the nightclubs, jazz clubs, ballrooms and theaters of the post-World War II period.
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