By Stella Suberman
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My father at once felt at ease with this man and poured out the tale of his New York woes. ” With Bronstein he spoke a little English here, a little Yiddish there, so that it emerged as a kind of Yidlish. Bronstein remembered his own bad times in the big city, the chutzpah he found there, the hordes of uncaring strangers. ” Among his grievances was that at Ellis Island they had put the name Krapchnik on him, a name he got rid of as soon as he came to Savannah. He made it Bronstein, because that was the name of the man who had given him a hand to go to the South.
There they sat in the women’s balcony and joined in the prayers with the other women. Few of them could read Hebrew, since the cheder, the school where Hebrew was traditionally learned, was the exclusive preserve of boys. The women therefore prayed by rote, though this was not discernible as heads stayed bent over prayer books and pages were turned. Praying did not mean they knew their religion. This was not only because the cheder was closed to them but also because their fathers were not eager to teach them.
What were they, scientists? they asked, though they agreed also that scientists didn’t know what to make of it either. But when Uncle Meyer talked about an intervening power, said things like, “I’m leaving that up to God,” my father was quick with the rebuttal. ” he would say. ” Once in trying to explain his views on God to me—a rare occasion—he said, “God is like when those in Russia said America’s streets were paved with gold. Did they see? Did they know? Of course not. ” It was also in Savannah that he learned about other Southern customs, so there were few surprises when he came upon them later in Concordia.