Brooklyn Roots: A Tale of Pickles and Egg CreamsiUniverse, 7 בפבר׳ 2011 - 136 עמודים Brooklyn Roots is the story of Estelle Breines experience growing up in Borough Park, but it will resonate with anyone who grew up there, or for that matter, in any other urban, ethnic neighborhood. She paints word pictures that take you back in time, evoking the scenes, scents and sensibilities of the old neighborhood. Once stirred, those memories rolled out in bursts, demanding recording. A description of the neighborhood of her youth emerged: her fathers pharmacy, shops along the avenue, and the house with its magnificent purple irises peeking above a stone wall as tall as a four year old. A small garment is remembered in detail: a dolls dress made from an old pillowcase, using a needle encrusted by baked on grease from the stuffed chicken necks her grandmother prepared; this the woman who braided the authors hair so tightly as surrogate parent while her parents worked to provide for them all in an era emerging from the Great Depression. There was the school she attended when the war began, and the celebrations at its end, and the places she and her friends explored as they grew. Her recollections of the neighborhoods artifacts appear as she envisions pickles and egg creams. Each shop along the 13th Avenue of her memory is sustained in its original character, even the corsetiere and milliner of the past, stuck there in time. |
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... wanted fish, she chose the victims from the large porcelain tubs of water in the fish store next to the bakery, sometimes bringing them home to swim in our bathtub until they were needed. Grandma made delicious gefilte fish from carp ...
... wanted to. It was particularly unnerving to see the eyes looking back at you. Up the block from the drug store in one direction was the double sized store which served as our public library, an institution we frequented regularly. I ...
... who offered the response I wanted. A few years after I was born, Aaron met Aunt Helen at St. John's University where he studied pharmacy, following my father in that pursuit although at a different school . Helen and Aaron 12 3. Our Family.
... wanted. Although she has been gone since 1954, I miss Grandma to this day. She protected me from the woman she called “dog mother.” I didn't understand for many years that this was her euphemism for bitch. Grandma was very liberal in ...
... wanted the aggressiveness from him that he could not produce. It was not in his nature. At the same time, Mom would never have made a housewife, and her mother already had that job. She was as unhappy in her role as was her mother in ...
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5 The War | 30 |
6 Montauk Junior High School | 38 |
6 New Utrecht High School | 44 |
8 Growing Up | 52 |
9 College Years | 78 |
10 Romance | 92 |
11 Our First Home | 106 |
Glossary | 120 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Brooklyn Roots: A Tale of Pickles and Egg Creams <span dir=ltr>Estelle B. Breines</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2011 |