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The Camera, the Ice, and the Egg Sandwich…by Leora Freedman
Morris had a large, leather-covered box which was a Graflex camera. When he touched a bump in the textured leather exterior, the viewfinder popped up, revealing a dark, velvet-lined tunnel. To take a picture, he rested his forehead against the … Continue reading →
The Dreams of People from Other Planets…by Leora Freedman
Bert Moore-Owen was a Unitarian minister in downtown Manhattan. One spring, he preached a sermon that touched on Passover, but he admitted he’d never seen a seder. Afterwards, a congregant approached him and said, “If you’re interested in attending a … Continue reading →
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The Daemon Lover Meets the Chew-Chew Express…by Leora Freedman
Morris emigrated from Russia as a boy around 1910. After a few years in America, he began reading all the books in the children’s library. One day, he went to the librarian, anxious that a book was missing from the … Continue reading →
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We Will Live as We’ve Always Lived…by Leora Freedman
It could be disorienting, changing from being immigrants to established professionals. Once his dental practice was successful, Morris bought part of a brownstone on Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn. The living room had pale green silk wallpaper and carved wainscoting. A … Continue reading →
How Joseph Preserved Eve for Edwin…by Leora Freedman
Flora and Eve had been friends for some time, though Eve had never met Flora’s brother Edwin since he was away at Harvard. He enjoyed his studies and the company of five or six other Jewish men, but he didn’t … Continue reading →
The Convenience of Names……by Leora Freedman
Upon arrival in America, Jews frequently had their names changed. Since many immigration officials were Irish, these Jews often ended up with Irish names. In Russia, Joseph Baum’s brother was called “Elchanan.” He was a small man, less than five … Continue reading →
Love and Friendship at School….by Leora Freedman
In the 1930’s, during the Great Depression, Flora Feuerstein was a high school teacher in a poor Jewish neighbourhood in New York City. The children did not have enough to eat or sufficient clothing, so the teachers collected things … Continue reading →
Matches Made on Earth……..by Leora Freedman
The dowry was a European custom that persisted well into the twentieth century in Brooklyn. This meant that a girl’s family could essentially “buy” her a professional husband, as the amount of the dowry was calibrated to each of the … Continue reading →
Five Men plus Walt Whitman…by Leora Freedman
There was a tradition of being committed to something important outside the family. For example, Joseph was president of HIAS between the two world wars and was always out at meetings trying to save Europe’s Jews. He even traveled to … Continue reading →
The Dive………………………..by Leora Freedman
The Dive was an apartment Flora and her friends rented in a Greenwich Village brownstone in 1928. They were all from nice Jewish families and would not have been allowed to live there, but they used it as a student … Continue reading →