From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly white, mostly working-class, mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.
My father was in the First World War.
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.
My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.
As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.