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Cal Abrams

CAL ABRAMS On November 20, 1980, Eli Wohlgelernter interviewed Cal Abrams and his wife, May. Now housed in the Jewish Division of the New York

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Brooklyn in Film

On The Waterfront – 1954 by Prof. Joe Dorinson Coney Island, a special place for “R and R,” beckoned to moviemakers. In many ways a

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Sam Levenson

By Joe Dorinson “Today I am a fountain pen!” This mantra for Bar-Mitzvah boys in the 1940s, embedded in a mandatory speech thanking parents, relatives,

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