Numbered memoirs

#26 Irving Howe

"I feel that I have known Irving Howe all my life, although I may have been in the same room with him five times and exchanged no more than a few sentences with him each time."

#44 Music in My Life

"For some people, their lives would be empty and unfulfilled without music."

#2 Nursery School Days

"When I was about five years old, my mother 'enrolled' me in the Isaac Gerson Foundation Hebrew Day Nursery. "

#23 Election Days (first draft)

"In six days, the United States will, hopefully, be electing a new president, and, thinking about it, I found myself reliving the first presidential election that I am able to remember."

#9 The Prize

"I was 12 years old and had been going to Hebrew school for about three years."

#20 Lenny Rubin

"Lenny Rubin was the first friend I made after entering City College in September 1945."

"In 1933, I was five years old. My father had died in 1931, and my mother was finally able to come to grips with the fact that we should move from our four-room Beck Street apartment in the Bronx, to a smaller apartment that would cost less."