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Orlove, Robert, Orlove, Benjamin S, Jews--New York (State)--New York--Biography, Jews, Russian--New York (State)--New York--Biography, Jews, Russian--New York (State)--New York--Social life and customs, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Biography, Brooklyn (New
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1995
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F128.9.J5O75 1995eb
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974.7/004924
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Orlove, Robert, Orlove, Benjamin S, Jews--New York (State)--New York--Biography, Jews, Russian--New York (State)--New York--Biography, Jews, Russian--New York (State)--New York--Social life and customs, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Biography, Brooklyn (New
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In My Father's Study
Singular lives
The Iowa Series in North American Autobiography
Albert E. Stone, Series Editor
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In My Father's Study
Ben Orlove
Foreword by Albert E. Stone
University of Iowa Press Iowa City
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1995 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
Design by Richard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed on acid-free paper
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Orlove, Benjamin S. In my father's study / by Ben Orlove; foreword by Albert E. Stone. p. cm. (Singular lives) ISBN 0-87745-490-6, ISBN 0-87745-491-4 (paper) 1. Orlove Robert. 2. Orlove, Benjamin S. 3. Jews New York (N.Y.) Biography. 4. Jews, Russian New York (N.Y.) Biography. 5. Jews, Russian New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs. 6. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Biography: 7. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs. 8. New York (N.Y.) Biography. 9. New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs. I. Title. II. Series. F128.9.J5075 1995 9747'004924 dc20 94-37406 CIP
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Contents
Foreword
by Albert E. Stone
vii
Acknowledgments
xiii
1 Remaining
1
2 Mother-book
20
3 Father-notes
49
4 Brother-mail
69
5 Cousin-pictures
114
6 Wife-songs
134
7 Combinations
161
8 Prints
175
9 Light-machine
233
10 Cards
279
Permissions
327
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Foreword
Albert E. Stone
Ben Orlove's In My Father's Study is in revealing and necessary ways a most unusual experiment in autobiography, perhaps the most singular so far in Singular Lives: The Iowa Series in North American Autobiography. Indeed, for many this story may not seem to be autobiography at all. Almost from the start, it can be read as biography, the life-story of an immigranta representative and appealing figure but quite unknown in the annals of American social historywritten by his son. The writing, begun shortly after the father's death, exhibits little of either the filial piety and sentimentality or the scarcely veiled resentments and even outright hatred that often suffuse such activity. Instead, Ben has entered, through the actual doorway of his father Robert's California study, into half a century of his father's experiences, thoughts, and emotions. He does so with wry sensitivity and loving detachment. Moreover, Ben re-creates his own self along with a richly detailed family history. Though only one among other Orloves and Cohens, Ben emerges as the son who is a modest, masterful teller of two storiesand the artificer of his own identity.
Robert Orlove's life in America, like that of the others in his Eastern European Jewish family who settled and struggled in New York and Chicago, is only in detail and nuance different from the lives of many of the 35 million Europeans who moved to the United States in the great migration of 18401930. But every reader of this book will realize that
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