Sex Wars
“Now they were sleeping on the floor of a third-story flat on Essex with a German Jewish family, the Kuppersmiths. Mr. Kuppersmith was a butcher who hoped someday to have his own shop, but for now worked in a market. Mrs. Kuppersmith sold baskets in a shop run by her brother-in-law. The oldest boy curried horses in a stable. The daughter tried selling matches, but when the Kuppersmiths learned how many matchgirls were prostitutes, they sent her to make felt in a factory.
Freydeh and Moishe cross...ed to Brooklyn on the earliest ferry to buy bread half a cent cheaper. They would bring the bread back on the ferry in huge bundles on their backs and then set up curbside on Orchard Street. After three months, they bought an old cart from a retiring peddler. Then they could manage more bread. Most of their business was conducted in German, but they had a handful of Yiddish-speaking customers who sought them out to hear the mamme loshen. They were mostly Russian Jews, tailors by trade. Moishe tried to talk them into hiring him in some capacity, but they had families to supply them with all the workers they needed.MoreLess
Freydeh and Moishe cross...ed to Brooklyn on the earliest ferry to buy bread half a cent cheaper. They would bring the bread back on the ferry in huge bundles on their backs and then set up curbside on Orchard Street. After three months, they bought an old cart from a retiring peddler. Then they could manage more bread. Most of their business was conducted in German, but they had a handful of Yiddish-speaking customers who sought them out to hear the mamme loshen. They were mostly Russian Jews, tailors by trade. Moishe tried to talk them into hiring him in some capacity, but they had families to supply them with all the workers they needed.MoreLess
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