Harry Perkal
By Harry Perkal
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Forverts in English My father, the shoemaker
Read this article in Yiddish My father, Ben Perkal (Berche, in Yiddish) was a kind person and a devoted family man, but he may have been the worst shoemaker in Poland. OK, that may be a slight exaggeration. But he was surely the worst shoemaker in Ostralenka, the shtetl in northeastern Poland that he grew…
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Forverts in English Confessions Of A Chaim Berlin Yeshiva Graduate
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. I attended Yeshiva and Mesivtah Chaim Berlin from 1954 to 1966. It almost ruined my life. Not that I’m complaining. Chaim Berlin is one of the oldest yeshivas in Brooklyn, established in 1904. It’s one of the most respected Haredi- Lithuanian yeshivas in the United States and…
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