[T1S1] Provides biographical details. Respondent mentions family's forced relocation and father's jobs. Respondent's religious and secular school attendance is indicated. Respondent discusses synagogue. Jews' professions and trade-based synagogues in Europe are mentioned. Respondent recounts hiding and being stabbed during pogrom in 1905. Family's move to and seclusion in a veterans' enclave near Riga is explained. Accommodations and conveyances en route to U.S. are described. Respondent's arrival in, and the religious items brought to, U.S. are mentioned. Initial feeling of freedom and lack of fear of police in U.S. is expressed. Respondent relates coming to Pittsburgh to establish and manage the "Jewish World". Finances and logistics of the daily paper are outlined. Respondent discusses becoming owner of the "Volksfreund" and changing name to the "Jewish Leader". First residence and office in Pittsburgh are indicated. Respondent's child labor as clerk is discussed. First piece as a reporter is related; hours and wages as clerk are detailed. Membership in Jewish writer's union and playwriting in New York at People's Theater are noted. Respondent's lifestyle as playwright is described.
