Setting

__** The Roth Family Neighborhood (Before) **__
 * Jewish neighborhood in New Jersey
 * On Summit Avenue
 * Live in the Weequahic neighborhood built on farm lots at the undeveloped southwest edge of Newark just after WWI
 * Summit Avenue sat at the crest of the neighborhood hill, an elevation as high as any in a port city that rarely rises a hundred feet above the tidal salt marsh.
 * The owners of the local candy, grocery, furniuture, and service stores were owned by neighborhood men.
 * There were Jewish docters and lawyers and successful merchants who owned big stores downtown and live in one family houses.
 * The men worked fifty to seventy hours in the week or possibly more.
 * The women worked at home cleaning, shopping, cooking, and taking care of the children.
 * Work was identified for the Jewish people more than their religion
 * The Jewish parents and their children talked to each other in American english.
 * Hardly anyone spoke with an accent
 * Nobody in the neighborhood d[[image:http://demo.collectiveaccess.org/ca-access/media/demo_access/images/3/87054_object_representations_media_349_small.jpg align="left"]]ressed in old world style or wore the skull cap.[[image:http://www.columbusjewishhistoricalsociety.org/images/topy_153.jpg width="308" height="231" align="right" caption="Local Jewish market"]]