Above is Ron Arons' photo of Cellblock A at Sing Sing.

A-block has been called "probably the largest freestanding cellblock in the world."

It extends 588 feet, only a dozen feet short of two football fields in length. It can houses about 684 inmates. That's more than the entire inmate count in some prisons.

The Cellblock image from promo card for Ron Arons' lecture The Jews of Sing Sing at Temple
Emanu-El


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NYCHS board member Judy Berdy, who is administrator at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El, suggested NYCHS website readers might be interested in the subject matter of Ron Arons' April 25 lecture sponsored by the Bernard Museum of Judaica & Stettenheim Library at Temple Emanu-El.

Judy also is president of the Roosevelt Island Historical Society.

This presentation is a follow-up on her suggestion.

Elizabeth F. Stabler, Temple Emanu-El librarian, provided the photo postcard announcing the lecture.

Ron Arons, who designed the postcard, took the photos of the guard tower and Cell Block A. He credits the "illustrations of the various tortures" and the electric chair photo to "the Ossining Community Center."

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