Claire Uziel has been the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington’s Assistant Archivist since 2005. When she’s not taking care of the community’s history, she takes care of the Society’s website. Claire grew up eating from Ashkenazi and Sephardic traditions and is grateful for an extended family that loves to cook.
Party-Go-Round was used to supplying many things for their customers’ weddings, but who ever expected a call from the White House? One white satin heart-shaped wedding cake box led to new business and exciting experiences for one DC store owner.
Description: Photograph of Louis and Frayda Klivitsky outside their store, 1702 Seventh Street, NW. An advertisement “EAT MORNING STAR BREAD” is seen across the top of the display window, 1918…
Milton Stanley Kronheim was born in 1888 at 4½ and K Streets SW, near today’s Arena Stage. He first observed lawmakers socializing at J. Kronheim’s Capitol Saloon, his father’s popular…
Did you hear the one about two immigrants who decided to launch a brand new food shopping idea in the middle of the Great Depression? Believe it or not, that’s…
