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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.
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Touro Hall was built and opened in 1891 by the Hebrew
Education Society, and featured a bathing pool and library. It was home to Hebrew School No. 2, and served as a center for Jewish life in South Philadelphia through the 1920s. Fabiani Italian Hospital was located in Touro Hall from the 1920s until
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The park has an active bocce court and the park's summer bocce league was started in 1997 by area resident Chris Archer. The bocce league has a permit to play Monday through
Wednesday from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and Sunday from 4 to 8 p.m. By 2024, the Bardascino Park bocce league had grown to 42 teams with
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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.
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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
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Education Society opened Hebrew School No. 2 in 1878, and Philadelphia Jewish philanthropist David Sulzberger was a significant donor and led the construction of Touro Hall in 1891. The Hebrew Education Society purchased the land at 10th and Carpenter in 1891 from Alexander Parker who had
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The group has secured multiple community partnerships and grants, renovated the park in 2003 and 2004, and has continued to maintain it. Friends of
Bardascino Park updated the park's sign at 10th and Carpenter Streets with more detailed history and maps in December 2020.
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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.
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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 Touro Hall by 1927.
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in 1829. In addition to leading the synagogue, he published a Jewish newspaper, authored Bible translations, prayer books, and education materials, and in 1848 directed the organization of the Hebrew
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