The Ebb and Flow of Antisemitism
As a child growing up in the 1930s I wasn’t aware of the scope of anti-Jewish feelings around the world…the zoning restrictions, the unwillingness [&h...
Author: Carole Eglash-Kosoff
The 20th Century – Looking Ahead
I have written snippets on each of the decades of the 20th century and since “the past is prologue” I decided to look ahead [&h...
Departing the 19th Century
We’ve come of age accepting a near-vertical technology curve. Social media records our lives. Devices monitor our steps and our heartbeats. A.I. algorithms predict [...
The 20th Century – 1968
Our journey through life is marked by significant events…births, deaths, weddings. It is no less true for nations. Our country’s history is most remembered [&h...
The 20th Century – 1960 to 1965
The 20th century was a cyclone, whirling in turmoil. It began with a plethora of new inventions…the automobile, the telephone, electric lights, the airplane. [...
The 20th Century – The 1950’s
A Decade of Boredom New Year’s Day 1950 was a Sunday. In New York’s Central Park people smiled as they walked, huddled in mufflers. [&h...
The 20th Century – 1946 to 1950
Thank God, the war was over! Universally, there was hope that a new world would rise, like the Phoenix, from its ashes…a world of [...
The 20th Century – 1941 to 1945
The War Years The events of the decade of the ‘40’s were so extensive that it’s necessary to divide this Snippet into two 5 [&hel...
The 20th Century – 1931 to 1940
The Great Depression In October 1929 the stock market crashed, and, as the decade crawled to a close, people continued to yearn for the...
The 20th Century – 1921 to 1930
It was the jazz age…flappers dancing the Charleston, bootleggers smuggling ’hootch’ into the country by boats and across the Canadian border. Eddie Cantor was [&hell...