“There was an incident on the Lynn Common where a Jewish kid, about my contemporary, got beat up very badly.”

“My mother, if the truth be told, had three sets of dishes—milchig, fleishig, and Chinese food”

“When peddlers or rabbis would come to Lynn—remember, Lynn had 10,000 Jews, then—they needed a place to sleep, and there was a sheltering home.”

“Every Monday, [my father] would get on a bus, and this is before he learned to speak English. He had a little sign about where he was going.”

“I remember little stores, corner stores. Across from the Hebrew school, there was sort of a little groceria, whatever you would call it, and what I remember most about it was a pickle barrel.”

“Not only did Jews live in the Brickyard; Italians, Poles, immigrants lived in the Brickyard.”