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Central Park’s Wollman Rink, which the Trump Organization hopes to run again, was named for this Jewish family

JL;DR SUMMARY Central Park's Wollman Rink, named after a philanthropic Jewish family, is the focus of a new bidding war for operational rights. 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 HistoryJewish ImmigrationNew YorkJewish PhilanthropyCentral ParkWollman RinkTrump OrganizationKate WollmanContract BiddingLeavenworth Kansas

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New York, United States
"Central Parks Wollman Rink, which is named for a philanthropic Jewish family, is back in the news."
Germany
"Family patriarch Jonas Wollman was born in 1824 in Kempen, Prussia (now Germany)."
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
"Wollman then moved to St. Louis, where he met and married Betty Kohn, the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Bohemia."
Leavenworth, Kansas, United States
"they headed further west to Leavenworth, Kansas, where they established a successful clothing business that later expanded into dry goods and other items."

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