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Book ISBN : 0874833817Format : Author : edited by David Holt & Bill MooneyEdition : Pages : Publisher : August House Publishers, Inc.
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Subtitle: Stories with a Chicago Accent. Author: Syd Lieberman. About the Author: SYD LIEBERMAN is a storyteller, teacher, and award-winning recording artist based in Evanston, Illinois. His performance venues range from B'nai B'rith Women's national convention to the National Storytelling Festival and the Smithsonian Institution. He holds an A.B. from Harvard College and a M.A.T. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A teacher with more than twenty years' classroom experience, he is a recipient of the Golden Apple Award given for excellence in teaching . Awards: . Book description: Syd Lieberman grew up in Albany Park, a Jewish neighborhood on Chicago's northwest side. During his childhood, Eastern European immigrants bet with Feldman, the Jewish handicapper from the Sun-Times. Teenagers descended like locusts on the old Terminal Theater on Friday nights. Families frequented Riverview, then the world's largest amusement park. And his father, Shmulky, played cards at night in the neighborhood cigar store, until dawn or until he was broke, whichever came first.For young Syd, it was a long way from Albany Park to Harvard, and longer still to Sierra Leone, where he went as a peace corps worker in 1969. ¡°I was going to teach African farmers how to grow rice in swamps¡ªme, a Chicago boy. Not only had I never seen a swamp, I couldn't pick a rice plant out of a line-up.¡±Lieberman now lives in his native Chicago. With the gift of gab he inherited from his car-salesman father, he has won awards as a high school English teacher and international acclaim as a storyteller. In Streets and Alleys, his gifts are evident in a cycle of stories about four generations of his Jewish-American family, Chicagoans all, which together tell a larger story¡ªa family story, a Jewish story, a city story.In the game called Streets and Alleys, children form lines that serve as streets; on cue they rotate ninety degrees to form alleys, altering the landscape. The changing landscape of his life¡ªa shift from son and grandson to father, teacher, and storyteller¡ªis humorously and lovingly illuminated in his first volume of stories. . (Aug)
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