Fascinating Memoir, Left Unpublished for Almost Four Decades, Showcases Colorful Lives of Jews in Southeast Bronx Between 1916 and 1926
While Nathan Lobell’s prestigious law degree allowed him to bring his children up in the affluent suburb of Great Neck on New York’s Long Island, he himself grew up in without electricity in the teaming tenements of the Bronx. This rags-to-riches existence wasn’t rare for fellow Jews who grew up in the Southeast Bronx in the early 20th Century and, almost forty years after putting his early life on paper, Lobell’s fascinating memoir has finally been published.
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