Title In my father's study / Ben Orlove ; foreword by Albert E. Stone

Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 325 pages) : illustrations Series Singular lives Singular lives. Summary In 1921 Solomon Orlovski, a Russian Jew born in 1904, emigrated to America and transformed himself into Robert Orlove, a pattern maker in two senses of the term: during the day, he worked in the fur trade in New York and Chicago, making patterns for toys and hats; in his private life he became a self-taught artist who created prints, sketches, and collages in his study. More than sixty years later his son Ben--an anthropologist educated at Harvard and Berkeley--walked through the doorway of the deceased Robert's study and began to explore more than a half century of his father's experiences, thoughts, and emotions as well as his own very different life. His wry, sensitive combination of biography, memoir, and autobiography taps a remarkably rich vein of individual and collective experience in our diverse society. Ben Orlove's dual narrative constitutes a family history of notable breadth and immediacy. By turns passionate and cool, dramatic and analytic, he excavates his father Robert's lifetime accumulation of diaries, letters, clippings, photographs, and artworks to create a convincing, deeply satisfying portrait that link both father and son Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Orlove, Robert. Orlove, Benjamin S. SUBJECT Orlove, Benjamin S. fast Orlove, Robert fast Subject Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography Jews, Russian -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography Jews, Russian -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- State & Local. HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. Jews Jews, Russian Jews, Russian -- Social life and customs Manners and customs SUBJECT Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs New York (N.Y.) -- Biography New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091434 Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn Genre/Form Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 94037406 ISBN 1587291746 9781587291746

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