Marcia Bricker Halperin
Dubrow’s Cafeteria was more than just a place to eat for a generation of Jewish New Yorkers and Marcia Bricker Halperin’s photo essay illuminates why.
Dubrow’s Cafeteria was more than just a place to eat for a generation of Jewish New Yorkers and Marcia Bricker Halperin’s photo essay illuminates why.
Nora Ephron called Zabar’s, “The most rambunctious and chaotic of all delicatessens, with one foot in the Old World and the other in the vanguard of every fast-breaking food move in the city.” Lori Zabar had a keen appreciation for both the old and the new and as such, she was the perfect chronicler for this story.
Creating a Jewish arts space in Brooklyn.
“I was so used to describing myself as a Russian. I equated being Russian with being Soviet. I discounted both my Jewish and Ukrainian identities. Why? Because I was brainwashed when I was a child. But in fact, I am not Russian. I am Jewish, Ukrainian and Australian.”
I could never find the sufganiot of my Israeli childhood, the ones that my father bought for a couple of shekels in the local bakery and brought home unexpectedly one damp night.