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An UES street corner gets a new name — after a Holocaust museum in Israel

JL;DR SUMMARY A corner in Manhattan's Upper East Side, at East 67th and Third Avenue, has been co-named Yad Vashem Way, in a ceremony attended by local politicians, Israeli officials, and New Yorkers. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryAuschwitzHolocaustNew York CityYad VashemManhattanHolocaust RemembranceStreet Co NamingArthur Schneier

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"New York Congressman Jerry Nadler, Consul General of Israel in New York Ofir Akunis, Council member Keith Powers, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan."
Jerusalem, Israel
"The new street sign, named for the Jerusalem museum built in 1953 as a memorial to victims of the Holocaust, is just a few steps from Park East Synagogue, the stately Orthodox congregation at 163 East 67th St."
Vienna, Austria
"unlike the policemen of my synagogue in Vienna on Kristallnacht who had been rejoicing rejoicing in seeing that synagogue, along 1,200 synagogues in Germany and Austria, destroyed."

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