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A Closet with Wedding Clothes Is All That Is Left of Yetta Goldstein

JL;DR SUMMARY The tragic story of Yetta Goldstein, a victim of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911, is retold through the grief-filled eyes of her brothers and fiancé. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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FamilyPassoverNew YorkJewish ImmigrantsGriefBialystokLabor HistoryTriangle Shirtwaist FactoryYetta Goldstein1911 Fire

Places mentioned

Patterson, New Jersey, United States
"her two brothers of Patterson, N.J., are also weavers and earn a paltry living."
New York, United States
"In New York, she went to work for the Triangle shop because she heard one could earn one dollar more in the city."
Bialystok, Podlachia, Poland
"Yetta Goldstein comes from Bialystok; her father is Chaim Moyshe the weaver; her two brothers of Patterson, N.J., are also weavers and earn a paltry living."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"she reminded me that our sick mother was bedridden now in Warsaw, and one dollar more per week was two more rubles in Warsaw."

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