[T1S1] year of birth, 1908; parents' place of birth; father's religious instruction and ordination; family's immigration; father comes to Pittsburgh two weeks after his arrival to teach at Beth Hamedrash Hagodol in the Hill District; early family residences; names of siblings; financial situation at home; father becomes faculty member at HI; means of discipline in home; he contracts polio at the age of two; his mother's heart condition; his education and activities at HI; education, Franklin Grade School, Fifth Avenue High School, and University of Pittsburgh (UP); graduation from UP Law School in 1932.