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#14 My Father
"My father’s name was Louis Schlitt, spelled with two Ts."
Passover 1952 The Feig Family Seder
"The Passover Seder is a very important family event in the Jewish holiday calendar."
Passover 1952 My First Feig Family Seder
"The Passover Seder is the most important family event in the Jewish holiday calendar."
Family Stories
"When I was a little boy, my mother told me about her life growing up in Vaslui, and her family. I wasn’t very interested."
#35 My Mother's Story
"Ever since my mother died, I have been thinking about, and telling people, what a remarkable woman my mother was."
Fran and Sarah and Bristol (and Jake and Todd and Levi)
"Written in anticipation of Sarah Palin’s address at the Republican Convention"
Mishpukhe
"As an only child of a widowed mother who had a sister in Paris and a brother in Vaslui Romania, I didn’t grow up with a lot of family around."
Mishpukhe
Alternate (earlier?) version of Mishpukhe
Family - A first draft
"I was born in the Bronx in December 1927 to a mother who had come from Vaslui, Romania and a father who had come from Kishinev, Bessarabia which was part of Russia."
Cousin Robert
"For years, during the '80s and '90s, while watching television, I would see the name Robert Schlitt among the writing credits."