svg]:overflow-visible">Listen to article • 0:00 minThe sacred space sits quiet now. But amid the ruins and solemn silence, one can almost hear the ghostly prayers of the damned. Inmates from a century ago, whose bodies were incarcerated, but whose souls found escape. On July 2, Eastern State Penitentiary opened its new permanent exhibition, “Freedom Through Faith: Judaism at Eastern State and Beyond.” Centered in the historic penitentiary’s painstakingly restored synagogue — the first within a U.S. prison — the exhibit powerfully recounts how incarcerated Jewish people and local Philadelphians came together amid rising antisemitism in the 1920s to construct a sacred...
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