Spotless Memories of a New York Childhood eBook Sherman Yellen
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Playwright, librettist, Tony nominee, and two-time Emmy Award-winning writer Sherman Yellen lovingly recreates the world of his impoverished forebears before World War I; his troubled, prosperous, mendacious father; his beautiful, willful fashion-model mother, and especially his own New York childhood in the 1930s and 40s in this remarkable family saga. Yellen's childhood witnessed both great events and the everyday life of a city boy in an embattled family, all viewed through the eyes of an observant little boy waiting impatiently for his body to catch up to his all-seeing consciousness. Yellen summons up this lost world of a New York Jewish-American family during the Great Depression and World War II with candor and love and brings it back to vivid new life.
Spotless Memories of a New York Childhood eBook Sherman Yellen
I am reading Sherman Yellen’s memoir “Spotless” as slowly as possible to make it last! Here is why.The author is the American-born son of immigrant parents, grandparents, and extended family that escaped dictatorship, violence, antisemitism, and poverty in Russia. And who arrived in New York City desperate to rebuild their lives in safety and freedom and to grasp twin golden opportunities — education and work.
Young Sherman like all children wants to “fit in” by wearing the “right” clothes and playing with the toys in vogue. And his parents like most immigrants who internalize lives of persecution, poverty, and want in the mother country, never fully relax and enjoy the modest prosperity they earned through soul-numbing hard work. Descriptions of terrifying events such as the polio scare and Lindbergh baby kidnapping and the cast of characters — Sherman’s teachers and classmates, his father’s business partner and buyers, and Hollywood stars evoke poignant memories of what my Russian Jewish immigrant grandparents told me, a child growing up in NYC a decade after the author.
Today, in the USA and globally, immigrants, refugees, and stateless people seeking refuge from torture and near-certain death in their naive lands are in the crosshairs of enraged, ignorant, dismissive, fear-mongering politicians, electorates, opinion makers, corporations, media, lobbies, and bloviators. Their world views, manipulations, and alternate facts and realities imperil the human beings whom Emma Lazarus lovingly called, “tired, poor, wretched refuse.” “Spotless” is an intimate view of one immigrant family’s struggles and triumphs and their gifts to the country that took them in.
Tamar Orvell
Tel Aviv
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Spotless Memories of a New York Childhood eBook Sherman Yellen Reviews
Delightfully engaging stories of a time and place in the history of the New York immigrant scene. More upscale than the familiar stories of the struggling families of the lower east side, Yellen paints a vivid picture of a privileged life in the Bronx of the 30's, 40's and 50's. It was a pleasure
to encounter a well written book that needs no editing. A wonderful gift for yourself or a member of your family.
Spotless evokes wonderful memories of a bygone America. The sights, the smells, the sounds, and the lives are all there for the fortunate reader to experience. How lucky we are that Sherman Yellen has documented his early life - so singular yet so universal. Nostalgia at it's finest. Please continue the saga.
Wonderfully written by a wonderful man.
A generous, witty, utterly captivating and gorgeously written memoire that kept m up till 4 am because I simply could not put it down. Sherman Yellen is an inspiration as both a human being and a writer.
A tender memoir of a life fully lived.
I love this book about Mr Yellen's childhood in the lower east side of Manhatten. Great story teller.
Finished reading Sherman Yellen's memoir, SPOTLESS last night. Wonderful read. The chapter called, The Tomato Sauce Railway is a gem. Clearly defined family members managing in a household and a time that being "spotless" was a necessity. Oh, and the final chapter is his "eleven o'clock" number when he refuses to mingle with turds.
I am reading Sherman Yellen’s memoir “Spotless” as slowly as possible to make it last! Here is why.
The author is the American-born son of immigrant parents, grandparents, and extended family that escaped dictatorship, violence, antisemitism, and poverty in Russia. And who arrived in New York City desperate to rebuild their lives in safety and freedom and to grasp twin golden opportunities — education and work.
Young Sherman like all children wants to “fit in” by wearing the “right” clothes and playing with the toys in vogue. And his parents like most immigrants who internalize lives of persecution, poverty, and want in the mother country, never fully relax and enjoy the modest prosperity they earned through soul-numbing hard work. Descriptions of terrifying events such as the polio scare and Lindbergh baby kidnapping and the cast of characters — Sherman’s teachers and classmates, his father’s business partner and buyers, and Hollywood stars evoke poignant memories of what my Russian Jewish immigrant grandparents told me, a child growing up in NYC a decade after the author.
Today, in the USA and globally, immigrants, refugees, and stateless people seeking refuge from torture and near-certain death in their naive lands are in the crosshairs of enraged, ignorant, dismissive, fear-mongering politicians, electorates, opinion makers, corporations, media, lobbies, and bloviators. Their world views, manipulations, and alternate facts and realities imperil the human beings whom Emma Lazarus lovingly called, “tired, poor, wretched refuse.” “Spotless” is an intimate view of one immigrant family’s struggles and triumphs and their gifts to the country that took them in.
Tamar Orvell
Tel Aviv
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