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Club Midwood

JL;DR SUMMARY In "Club Midwood," Rina Shamilov reflects on her childhood in a multicultural apartment building in the heart of Jewish Brooklyn. 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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IdentityFamilyOrthodox JewsCommunity DynamicsMemoryMulticulturalismSoviet ImmigrantsMidwoodAcculturationJewish Brooklyn

Places mentioned

Brooklyn, New York, United States
"In the heart of Midwood, what I affectionately call Jewish Brooklyn, not far from the Q train, and a fifteen minute walk from the school I attended"
Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkar, Russian Federation
"who were born into a war-torn Soviet Nalchik, spoke Juhuru and English"

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