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"When we were kids, we were always gambling."

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

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

"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."

"When I was about nine years old, my mother began a routine which we followed until I was a teen-ager..."

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

"Perhaps I am being too hard on myself, but in retrospect, I find it hard to believe that my life through the late 30s seemed largely unaffected (and unaware) by what was going on in the world."

"From the age of 10, my mother made it clear to me that I had to go to Shul on Rosh Hashana--Yom Kippur. She did not go to Shul. I went alone."

Early partial draft of "A Child's View of the World in the '30s"

"From my earliest days, I was convinced that we were caught up in the class struggle."