David Cohen

How An Immigrant Sephardic Family Made Its Home In New York

I was a first-born son in 1943 and, in the Sephardic tradition, was named David after my father’s living father. My middle name, however, came from my mother’s beloved sister Lee, whom I never met because, as Mom told me, she died young of a broken heart. Mom was second-youngest in a family that emigrated…