[T1S1] parents, Russian immigrants; six siblings, all born in Russia; early residences in Pittsburgh; father, first president, Beth Abraham Cemetery; father's employment at Schenley Park and in the tobacco industry; family life at home; Bar Mitzvah at Beth Hamedrash Hagodol; education, Franklin School and Letsche School; recollections of school days; experience with anti-Semitism in school; medical care; selling newspapers at age sixteen; employment with Princess Dress Company on Fifth Avenue at age seventeen; some history of remodeling Washington Street Synagogue; effects of Prohibition; recollections of playing cards and drinking with other merchants on Fifth Avenue; opinions on the demise of the Fifth Avenue wholesale district; negotiating for purchase of property on Washington Street where Epiphany Church used to stand; Fifth Avenue district in the 1930s and 1940s.
