Our Mothers did not have washing machines. They washed the clothes in double wash basins in the cellar. They rubbed them over a scrubbing board. There was a wringer on the edge of the tub that they could run the clothes through to get most of the moisture out. For diapers, underwear and sheets, they…
Category Archives: The Way We Were
In the early 1930’s, when we were children, women bought the chicken, the butcher would kill the chicken for them, but they had to scald it so they could defeather it, cut it apart so they could kosher it, use the fattest parts for chicken soup, and of course we ate all the parts, including…
When our ancestors were forced to leave their homes in the shtetls in Eastern Europe, they were also forced to leave behind their beloved synagogues. At one time there were easily hundreds of these (typically all-wood) synagogues. Most have since been destroyed and the few that remain have been neglected and abandoned. Fortunately there are…
Under The Dining Room Table 
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