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Brooklyn College is unequivocally Jewish in tone, and efforts to detribalize the college by bringing in unimpeachably midwestern types on the faculty have been unavailing.
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Brooklyn and College
Perhaps the Jewish students at Brooklyn College -- constituting 85 per cent of those who attend the day session -- can serve as a paradigm of the urban, lower-middle class Jewish student.
The consequence of this is that the girls at Brooklyn College outnumber the boys and do somewhat better academically.
Brooklyn College students have an ambivalent attitude toward their school.
This is particularly acute for those who attended Midwood High School directly across the street from Brooklyn College.
For most Brooklyn College students, college is at once a perpetuation of their ethnic attachments and a breaking away from the cage of neighborhood and family.
A freshman girl's father not too long ago called a dean at Brooklyn College and demanded the `` low-down '' on a boy who was going out with his daughter.
Under pressure from parents, the majority of Brooklyn College girls major in education since that co-ordinates best with marriage plans -- limited graduate study requirement and convenient working hours.
Although Brooklyn College does not yet have a junior-year-abroad program, a good number of students spend summers in Europe.
And acculturation into the world at large is likely to occur for the Brooklyn College student after college rather than during the four school years.
Brooklyn College is Marjorie Morningstar territory, as much as the Bronx or Central Park West.
The Brooklyn College student shows some striking departures from prevailing collegiate models.
Brooklyn College is distinctive for not having an official drinking place.
The Fort Lauderdale encampment for drinking is foreign to most Brooklyn College boys.
During the period the Board existed, Brooklyn College ( 1930 ), Queens College ( 1937 ) and a number of other four-year colleges and two-year community colleges were created.
In 1961, the New York State Legislature established the City University of New York, uniting what had become seven municipal colleges at the time: The City College of New York, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, Queens College, Staten Island Community College, Bronx Community College and Queensborough Community College.
*( 1930 ) Brooklyn College ( formed by the merger of Hunter and City Colleges ' Brooklyn campuses )
Brooklyn and is
The breaking away from the prison house of Brooklyn is gradual.
It is interesting that, although the percentage of married students is not appreciably higher at Brooklyn than elsewhere -- about 30 per cent of the women and 25 per cent of the men in the graduating class -- the anxiety of the unmarried has puffed up the estimate.
* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
The Cobble Hill Tunnel ( popularly the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel ) of the Long Island Rail Road is an abandoned railroad tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, New York City.
With the assistance of a Brooklyn Union Gas Co. ( now National Grid ) engineering crew, he then broke through the massive concrete bulkhead wall, which is several feet thick.
This technique, famously practiced by Eddie Stanky of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is where the runner does not break immediately for second when the pitcher commits to the plate.
Robert ( Bob ) M. Frankston ( born June 14, 1949 in Brooklyn New York ) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.
Dave Winer ( born May 2, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in New York City.
Several schools, faculties and universities in the Netherlands and Flanders are named after him, as is Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
The play is a series of scenes and songs, and was first staged at public swimming pool in Brooklyn.
The Saitta House, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York, United States built in 1899 in architecture | 1899 is made of and decorated in wood.
Chadwick died at age 83 in Brooklyn, New York and is interred in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
Krush attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, whose chess team is considered by many to be one of the top high school teams in the U. S.
* 1855 – In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.
Tens of thousands of people lined the subsequent procession route to Robinson's interment site at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, where he is buried next to his son Jackie and mother-in-law Zellee Isum.
Brooklyn and Jewish
David Daniel Kaminsky was born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn.
Wallach was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn at 166 Union St., the son of Polish Jewish immigrants Bertha ( née Schorr ) and Abraham Wallach.
Born in Brooklyn, Kushner was educated at Columbia University and later obtained his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary ( JTS ) in 1960.
Joseph Greenberg was born on May 28, 1915 to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York.
Friedman was born in Brooklyn, New York, to recent Jewish immigrants Jenő Friedman and Sára Landau from Beregszász in Austria-Hungary ( now Berehove in Ukraine ), both of whom worked as dry goods merchants.
Albert was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, where he went to Abraham Lincoln High School .< ref > Corcoran, Tully.
Kahane was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York in 1932 to an Orthodox Jewish family.
Nozick was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Jewish entrepreneur from the Russian shtetl who had been born with the name of Cohen.
In the 1990s, controversy over a class-action lawsuit brought in Brooklyn, New York over Jewish assets in Holocaust-era bank accounts prompted the Swiss government to commission the most recent and authoritative study of Switzerland's interaction with the Nazi regime.
This was described as a case of Jewish religious terrorism by Mark Juergensmeyer. Goldstein was a medical doctor who grew up in Brooklyn and was educated at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx.
Guthrie ’ s Jewish lyrics can be traced to the unusual collaborative relationship he had with his mother-in-law, who lived across from Guthrie and his family in Brooklyn in the 1940s.
Their collaboration flourished in 1940s Brooklyn, where Jewish culture was interwoven with music, modern dance, poetry and anti-fascist, pro-labor, classic socialist activism.
Eisner was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants.
In 1941, he married Ellen Poplar, the daughter of immigrants of Polish Jewish ancestry and a Communist Party organizer in Brooklyn.
Blaine was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and is of Puerto Rican descent on his father's side, and Russian Jewish on his mother's.
The Jewish population in the Boro Park neighborhood of Brooklyn ( 70, 000 in 1983 ) was also mostly Haredi ( also mostly Hasidim ).
Hart was born in New York City and grew up at 74 East 105th Street in Manhattan, “ a neighborhood not of carriages and hansom cabs, but of dray wagons, pushcarts, and immigrants .” He was also raised, in relative poverty, by his English-born Jewish immigrant parents in the Bronx, New York, and in the Seagate area of Brooklyn, near Coney Island.
Brighton Beach, Brooklyn and South Beach, Staten Island in New York City is an example of a large community of recent Russian and Jewish Russian immigrants.
Keitel ( ) was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the son of Miriam ( née Klein ) and Harry Keitel, Jewish immigrants from Romania and Poland.
Koufax was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family, and raised in Borough Park.
Zinn was born to a Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn.
Youngman was born to a Jewish family in Liverpool, England, and his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, when he was young.
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