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Theme: Glass? To Be Or Not To Be!
2009.05.06
When we were little, we lived for a short time in a flat in Brooklyn with our grandmother, who hailed from Poplovsk, near Odessa. When we would complain about the lack of heat, she would tell us "You don't KNOW what cold is! We didn't have glass in our windows -- we had greased paper!"
As fate would have it, I ended up coming back to Ukraine to live. While, as you can see, there is some real progress being made, there is also plenty that has not changed much!
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When we were little, we lived for a short time in a flat in Brooklyn with our grandmother, who hailed from Poplovsk, near Odessa. When we would complain about the lack of heat, she would tell us "You don't KNOW what cold is! We didn't have glass in our windows -- we had greased paper!"
As fate would have it, I ended up coming back to Ukraine to live. While, as you can see, there is some real progress being made, there is also plenty that has not changed much!
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"Hooligans" (that's what anti-semites are called here,) smashed the windows of the synagogue!
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"Hooligans" (that's what anti-semites are called here,) smashed the windows of the synagogue!
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Embarrassing as it is to admit, this is our dining room window. There was a ferocious wind storm which knocked out the electricity and threatened to rip off all of our windows. With no rope around, we had to resort to tying them shut with plastic bags! As close to my grandmother's greased paper as I wish to get!
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Embarrassing as it is to admit, this is our dining room window. There was a ferocious wind storm which knocked out the electricity and threatened to rip off all of our windows. With no rope around, we had to resort to tying them shut with plastic bags! As close to my grandmother's greased paper as I wish to get!
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Good night!
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Good night!
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Very good series, really great photographs presented in the past and present. I got a great attraction of opposites.
Lovely and significant shots. My grandma, who went to world war I and II, told us the same story: you don't know what real hunger and cold is..... I hope we never will know!
These photos are absolutely fantastic; what a luxurious collection! Sorry I haven't been keeping up with photoblog! I got distracted with a different kind of blog, the one that involves words! You might like it (or maybe not)... it's at http://jewishscientist.wordpress.com/
