Congress Food Market at 5th and East Capital Streets, NE, was owned by the Gimble family, one of many small Jewish-owned grocery markets in DC. A century later, there are still food markets on these busy corners. The Lee family, immigrants from Korea, purchased Congress Food Market in the 1980s.

Authors: Lisa Del Sesto, Museum Educator, and Jonathan Edelman, Curatorial Assistant

Image Caption: Isadore Gimble inside Congress Food Market at 5ht and E. Capitol Streets, NE reading The Jewish Daily Forward newspaper in Yiddish, 1953. / Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Photograph by Gilbert Gimble, Gift of Josephine Gimble.