Author and Tulane professor Joel Dinerstein joins Lisa Wexler to discuss The Last of the Ellis Island Jews: A Brooklyn Memoir. From Yiddish humor and street-corner debates to a volatile father and disastrous family celebrations, he revisits working-class Jewish Flatbush, and asks what survives when a neighborhood’s culture disappears. He also reflects on the tragic building collapse just six blocks from his childhood home.
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