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East Broadway to Whitechapel, review: ‘stirring snapshots of a bygone world’

JL;DR SUMMARY Dovid Katz's "East Broadway to Whitechapel" is a poignant collection of short stories that conjures the vanished worlds of Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Whitechapel. 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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Yiddish LiteratureBrooklynHolocaustJewish WritersJewish NeighborhoodsYiddish CultureNostalgiaCynthia OzickDovid KatzWhitechapel

Places mentioned

Brooklyn, New York, United States
"The stories set in Brooklyn are curiously old-fashioned."
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
"then at Vilnius University in Lithuania."
Whitechapel, West Lothian, United Kingdom
"ten stories: five set in Jewish neighbourhoods in Brooklyn and five set in Whitechapel."

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