Table of Contents


EARLY  CHILDHOOD

I

Birth, Genealogy and Siblings. – 1918-1920

1

II

Early schooling. – Ages 3-7 – 1921-1925

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III

Yeshiva Torah Vadaath. – 1926

14

IV

Yeshiva Torah Vadaath, Visits to Relatives in the Bronx, Murry’s Bar Mitzva. – 1926

17

V

YTV, Interest in the Navy, My first World Series. – 1927

25

VI

My introduction to and love for Shteiblach. – Ages 10-11 – 1928-1929

28

VII

Graduation from YTV, Entered Boys High School. –

Ages 12-13 – 1930-1931

31

 

YEARS AS A TEEN-AGER

VIII

Move to Howard Ave. and making Friends. – 1932

35

IX

Brooklyn Dodgers – 1933

33

X

Anshe Zedek Boys, My first girl friend, Soccer and baseball at Boys High, Athletic Hall of Fame, Graduation from high school. – 1934-1935

43

XI

Entered CCNY, Employment in library, Second girl friend, Meet my future wife, Murray and Gert’s wedding. –

1935-1936

51

XII

Hilda’s family, My first employment, Hapoel Hamizrachi. – 1936-1937

56

 

REACHING MATURITY

XIII

Manager at Spring Valley hotel, Split and reconciliation with Hilda. – 1938

63

XIV

Thesis and graduation from CCNY, My first professional employment. – 1939

67

XV

CPA exam, NY Rangers hockey games, Marriage to Hilda, Our “honeymoon”. – 1940

72

XVI

Our first and second apartments, Change in employment. – 1941

78

XVII

World War II, Selective Service instituted. – 1939- 1941

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XVIII

Application to FBI, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Applied for US Navy officer’s commission, US action in Pacific theatre, Passed CPA exam, Birth of Kenneth, Rejected by FBI and US Navy, Drafted into the Navy, Sampson Naval Training Center. – 1941-1943

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XIX

Naval Aviation Technical Center in Norman, Oklahoma, Reception of commission as Ensign, Supply Corps School in Wellesley, Mass. – 1943-1944

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XX

Irene’s death, Graduation from Supply Corps School, Ordered to report to Seattle awaiting Commissioning of USS Bollinger, as Disbursing and Asst. Supply officer. – 1944

104

XXI

USS Bollinger – 1944

112

XXII

Surrender of Japan, Discharged from active duty – 1945

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BACK TO NORMALCY

XXIII

Home at last with Hilda and Kenny, Decision not to return to my former employer, Glendale Court, Controller at Siren, Birth of Dennis, Starting a practice, Forming Litt & Prager. – 1946-1948

135

XXIV

Building a practice  - 1948-1949

147

XXV

Death of Papa, Kingsway Jewish Center, Meeting life-long friends. – 1949-1950

156

XXVI

Moskovits family, Irvington, Korean War, Resignation from Naval Reserve, First nursing Home client. – 1951-1953

167

XXVII

Purchase of first home, Hilda at Garden Nursing, Home. – 1954-1955

176

XXVIII

First trip to Brazil. – 1955

184

XXIX

Carnival, Nailotex, Zanny, Dodgers win World Series. – 1955

190

XXX

Kenny’s Bar Mitzva, Esther’s death, Town Club. –

1956-1959

199

XXXI

Dennis’s Bar Mitzva, Promenade Hotel, Kenny’s Graduation from Columbia, Mama’s death, First trip to Europe & Israel, 25th Wedding Anniversary, Kenny’s acceptance to Harvard Medical School. – 1960-1965

208

XXXII

Dennis’s graduation from Yeshiva of Flatbush and entrance to Brooklyn College, Kenny meets Jeannie, Honored by Yeshiva Rambam, Kenny and Jeannie’s wedding, Jeannie’s parents, Papa Friedfeld’s death, Dennis receiving the Gideonse Foreign Study Award, Kenny’s graduation from medical school, Anne’s death. – 1966-1968

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XXXIII

Kenny in the PHS in Eagle Butte, SD, Birth of Karen, Working out of the home, Dennis’s graduation from Brooklyn College, Dennis as delegate to the World Youth Assembly and representing the US at the Conference of Soviet Jewry, President of KJC, Birth of  Joshua, Purchase of condo in Miami Beach. – 1969- 1974

235

XXXIV

Pride in my sons, Surgery removing an aneurysm. – 2004

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XXXV

Yeshiva Rambam honoring Kenny & Dennis, Birth of Tamar & Benji, Honored by KJC, Sued by NYS and case dismissed, Wedding of Dennis & Janice, Karen’s Bat Mitzva, Tutoring minority children in grade school. –

1973-1980  / 2004

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