Streets

Description:

Born in Transylvania at the turn of the century, Bella Cohen Spewack arrived with her mother on the streets of New York's Lower East Side in 1902 when she was three years old. At twenty-three, while working as a reporter in Berlin, she wrote this memoir of her early years. After returning to the United States, Bella and her husband, Sam Spewack, became successful playwrights, most notably for the Tony award-winning Broadway musical Kiss Me, Kate.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Jews,  Intellectual life,  American Dramatists,  Homes and haunts,  Dramatists, American,  Childhood and youth,  Biography,  American Women dramatists,  New york (n.y.), history,  Manhattan (new york, n.y.),  Women dramatists,  Jews, social life and customs,  New York Times reviewed,  New york (n.y.), social life and customs,  Jews, united states,  Homes,  Manners and customs

People: Bella Cohen Spewack (1899-)

Places: Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.),  N.Y.) Lower East Side (New York,  New York,  New York (N.Y.),  New York (State)

Times: 20th century