jewish immigrant families

Beach Memories

It took me years to know that going to the beach had anything to do with being close to the ...

The Beauty of Broken English

I thought I had entered completely into the world of my novel: Boyle Heights in the 1920s and 30s, when ...

A Jewish Thanksgiving in Avalon

Every Thanksgiving I think of the Thanksgiving scene in the 1990 film Avalon, one of Barry Levinson’s semi-autobiographical Baltimore films. Avalon tells a ...