Ben Haber and Ethyl Haber, Clip 9: Ben Haber reads, "The Lesson"

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library

Date: Time Period: 1920 - 2011; 2013-04-23; Interview recorded: April 23, 2013 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension: Total running time: 0:05:30

Creator: Ben Haber and Ethyl Haber interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:22304 scc-haber-clip-000009

Description: Benjamin Haber reads his short story entitled "The Lesson" about the valuable life lessons he learned from his mother's job as a garment worker making neckties. Besides her weekday work at a factory in lower Manhattan, Lena Haber would also do piecework at home on the evenings and weekends to increase the family's earnings.

Title : Ben Haber and Ethyl Haber, Clip 9: Ben Haber reads, "The Lesson"

Collection : aql:20455; aql:33774; aql:22325

Creator : Ben Haber and Ethyl Haber interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1920 - 2011; 2013-04-23; Interview recorded: April 23, 2013

Summary/Description : Benjamin Haber reads his short story entitled "The Lesson" about the valuable life lessons he learned from his mother's job as a garment worker making neckties. Besides her weekday work at a factory in lower Manhattan, Lena Haber would also do piecework at home on the evenings and weekends to increase the family's earnings.

Subject : Short stories; Piecework; Clothing workers; Work ethic; Foreign workers

Relation : Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Lower Manhattan, NY Middle Village (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:05:30

Identifier : aql:22304 scc-haber-clip-000009