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[[File:Artur Szyk, Żydowski piekarz.jpg|thumb|upright=.6|left|A Jewish baker in the Poland of yore, baking bread, challah and bagels.<br>Painter by Artur Szyk (1927).]]
Jewish immigrants would eventually bring both the recipe for bagels and the song to America and, specifically, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It was here that a few families – Jewish this time around – would monopolize bagel production by setting up their own guild… I mean, trade union. The union, known as Local 338, counted about 300 bakers among its members. They were all Yiddish-speaking men of the Jewish persuasion, with membership typically passing from father to son. All union bakers made their bagels by hand, just like back in the old country.