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Remembering a loved one through pots, pans — and pearls

JL;DR SUMMARY Yona Eichenbaum reflects on the profound connection she maintains with her late mother-in-law, Rachel, through cherished household items like Farberware pots and pearls. 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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FamilyCookingHolocaust SurvivorsTraditionImmigrant ExperienceMontrealMemory20th CenturyJewelryDomestic Life

Places mentioned

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
"We were in the same ninth grade class of a small Jewish high school in Montreal."
New York, United States
"She told me her sister, Sally, lived in New York and worked at A&S, a local department store."
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
"A year after our marriage, when we arrived in Minneapolis for graduate school, I unpacked them immediately when I set up our tiny new kitchen."
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
"Five years later, their box, labeled PRIORITY, in big block letters, was unloaded first when the moving truck arrived at our house in Pittsburgh."
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"They moved with us to Chicago, the city that has been our home for more than 30 years."
Poland
"Rachel and her sister, like Martys father and my parents, were the only ones in their family that had survived Polands Holocaust."

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