article_snippet: For decades, immigrant Jews and Jews descendants have made pilgrimages back to the Lower East Side, the Jewish Plymouth Rock, to reconnect with immigrant Jews and their descendants history and, of course, delight in the shopping and eating that gives the neighborhood the neighborhood flavor,' said Annie Polland, a historian at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. '
article_snippet: Tradition is quickly disappearing in the neighborhood that was home to Jewish immigrants for much of the 20th century.
article_snippet: The bakery first opened during World War I, serving struggling Jewish immigrants.
article_snippet: Beyond the 18 minutes, the dough rises, forbidden for this food that symbolizes the biblical flight of the Jews from Egypt, who were so rushed they had no time to finish baking they 'bread of affliction.' '
article_snippet: This's our religion, it's the history of the Jews,' said the 61-year-old Queens resident.
highlights_snippet: Bakery on Rivington Street was opened by Aron Streit during World War I and served struggling Jewish immigrants .
  