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Title

The Hebrew National Orphan Home : memories of orphanage life / edited by Ira A. Greenberg with Richard G. Safran and Sam George Arcus.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Greenberg, Ira A., 1924-
• Safran, Richard G., 1935-
• Arcus, Sam George, 1921-

Description

xx, 305 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Orphans > New York (State) > Yonkers > Biography
• Orphanages > New York (State) > Yonkers
• Hebrew National Orphan Home (Yonkers, N.Y.)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-297) and index.

Contents

• Preface / Ira A. Greenberg -- Acknowledgments: An Appreciation / Ira A. Greenberg -- Prologue: Retrospective: Orphans No Longer / Richard G. Safran -- Pt. 1. Introduction: Our Asylum. 1. Villages / Ira A. Greenberg. 2. Early Days at Different Homes / Richard G. Safran. 3. First Day and First Month / Ira A. Greenberg. 4. Growing Up in HNOH / Sam George Arcus -- Pt. 2. Life in The Home. 5. A Novelist's Formative Years / E. M. "Mick" Nathanson. 6. Captain of the Band / Charles Vladimer. 7. Major Zundel, the Band's Lothario / Ira A. Greenberg. 8. Fights / Ira A. Greenberg. 9. Jobs, Fighting, B.A., and "Laying Chickey" / Samuel Prince. 10. Orphan Dogs / Sam George Arcus. 11. Varsity Athletics / Richard G. Safran. 12. Lesser Athletics and Other Things / Ira A. Greenberg. 13. Scouting and Social Inadequacy / Ira A. Greenberg. 14. High School Soccer, Football, and Other Things / Ira A. Greenberg. 15. Home at The Homelite / E. M. "Mick" Nathanson --
• Pt. 3. Hebrew National Orphan Home: History and Personal Stories. 16. The Home through the Decades / Ira A. Greenberg. 17. My Journey / Charles "Chick" Baker. 18. Manny, Marty, Alex, Simon, and George / Ira A. Greenberg. 19. Seymour, Spike, and Henry / Ira A. Greenberg. 20. Adoptions / Ira A. Greenberg. 21. Foreigners: Tom Bondy, the Furmans, Obshatco, and Others / Ira A. Greenberg. 22. From City Streets to Forest Trails / Bill Weinstein -- Pt. 4. Precipitating Factors and the Dark Side. 23. Traumas / Samuel Prince. 24. One Small Stone / Sam George Arcus. 25. My Dear Aunts Told Me / Ira A. Greenberg. 26. "Chick" Baker, Battered but Unbeaten / Richard G. Safran. 27. Sex at and in HNOH / Sam George Arcus. 28. "Little Ox," a Wild and Crazy Guy / Ira A. Greenberg. 29. The Good, the Bad, and the Very Bad / Ernest Levinson -- Pt. 5. Secular Education and Religious Orthodoxy. 30. Grade School and Junior High at the "H" / Samuel Prince.
• 31. Mrs. Skinner Gave Me a Life / Ira A. Greenberg. 32. Brief Recollections of Some of Our Favorites / Ira A. Greenberg. 33. The Neither-Nor of Religious Education / Samuel Prince. 34. Religious Regimen: What Went Wrong? / Ira A. Greenberg. 35. Religious Reverence: What Might Have Worked / Ira A. Greenberg -- Pt. 6. Humanitarian Giants. 36. Harry Lucacher, My Hero / Charles "Chick" Baker. 37. Samuel Field, a Man for the Age / Richard G. Safran. 38. Reuben Koftoff, the Kind-Hearted Revolutionary / Richard G. Safran. 39. Mr. Koftoff Always Got His Way - to Our Benefit / Ira A. Greenberg -- Pt. 7. We Knew Them Well. 40. Sam and Jerry / Ira A. Greenberg. 41. The Honorable Marty Miller / Ira A. Greenberg. 42. Murray Feierberg, Best Friend / Ira A. Greenberg. 43. Charlie Vladimer, Best Friend / Sam George Arcus. 44. The Pincus Brothers and More / Jerry "Yippy" Pincus. 45. Tony, Lew, Eddie, and Abie / Ira A. Greenberg -- Pt. 8. As Others See It.
• 46. Gingrich Was Right about Orphanages / Richard B. McKenzie. 47. Homes, Foster Kids, and Big-Bucks Businesses / Ira A. Greenberg. 48. No Simple Solution / Nicholas Scoppetta and Philip Coltoff -- Pt. 9. Conclusion: The Need. 49. Final Days and Later / Ira A. Greenberg. 50. Newt and Hillary Were Each Right - and Perhaps Wrong! / Ira A. Greenberg -- App. A. Questionnaire for Our Village: The Home -- App. B. Mother's Day Poem -- App. C. Honoring the Leagues and Auxiliaries.

ISBN

0897898176 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001035052

OCLC

• ocm46731233
• SCSB-4205769

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries