Comments for The Kisseloff Collection

Comment on The Magnificent Strunskys by jeff

jeff — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:15:31 +0000

hey, henry, glad you liked it. There’s actually quite a bit more that I’ll be posting over the next few months.

Comment on The Magnificent Strunskys by Henry Lowengard

Henry Lowengard — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:10:06 +0000

Jeff:
A few weeks ago, I was recalling your excellent chapter on the Strunsky family in You Must Remember This, and wondered if there were more material on them. Well, here it is! Really this material deserves to be more widely known and it’s moral : lasting art is made possible by free or cheap real estate!

Comment on The Magnificent Strunskys by Diane Englander

Diane Englander — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:01:08 +0000

Thanks for these lovely recollections of Emily, which I came across because I was trying to figure out the family’s San Francisco connection. My grandmother and her sister (Lillian and Helen) were Emily’s first cousins, and when their mother died they were raised by Masha and Albert. So to me, beautiful, charming, warm Emily was always Aunt Emily though that wasn’t technically correct Anyway, again, thanks!

Comment on Tuli by David Handelman

David Handelman — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:38:23 +0000

Jeff,
This is so chockablock with goodies it’s scary. I think my favorites are the pubic hair and the McCarthy ceremony. What a bygone era. It’s like reading about before there was electricity.

Comment on A brief follow-up to my post about the Strunsky family by Davkd Handelman

Davkd Handelman — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:27:46 +0000

Talk about burying the lede — that PS is worth its weight in email gold.

Comment on Assassin is my middle name, or is it Killer, or….. by jeff

jeff — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:25:00 +0000

It didn’t quite fit until I decided to toss in the flyer. By then I was too tired to alter the first line. It was a long day of secretly running the international banking system.

Comment on Assassin is my middle name, or is it Killer, or….. by David

David — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:29:23 +0000

Fascinating. I just listened to Eric Koningsburg’s Moth podcast on a very similar note (his uncle was a mob hit man — he got a New Yorker piece and then a book out of it. So there’s that.)

We did an episode on West Wing about Toby having a mafioso ancestor, that was based on Richard Schiff finding out he had one in real life. Most likely the hardscrabble way of life was not so much chosen as necessity back then, before Jews ran international banking and Hollywood.

PS how is this “off topic”? It’s historic and it’s definitely Kisseloff.

Comment on The Harry Dubin Photo I’ve Been Avoiding by Susanne

Susanne — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:32:10 +0000

I’ll miss him, too. I wish those “small transparencies” had not been lost. I sincerely loved this series. Such a treasure.

Comment on Memorial Day by jeff

jeff — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:56:17 +0000

Thanks. Coming from you and others in the family, it’s high praise indeed.

Comment on Memorial Day by Sue's Aunt Barbara

Sue's Aunt Barbara — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:55 +0000

Jeff, thank you for this beautiful remembrance of my dad…my whole family and I appreciate it very much, more than we can ever express…even though you haven’t met him, you wrote about him like you had always known him, and brought out the true hero that he was, to us and so many others…I e-mailed this to other relatives and they called me and asked me to express their appreciation to you too