'Early bird' dinners and bathing caps: Miami Beach's previous generation of Jewish snowbirds remembered

JL;DR SUMMARY Photographer Naomi Harris pays tribute to the bygone era of Miami Beach's affordable winter destination for low-income Jewish snowbirds in her new book "Haddon Hall," which features portraits of Holocaust survivors, pensioners, and widows she lived among from 1999 to 2002. 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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