Syd Lieberman

Streets and Alleys: Stories with a Chicago Accent Syd Lieberman Second Edition

Streets and Alleys is a collection of defining moments in a full life: first love, first job, first time bailing Dad out of jail. Storyteller Syd Lieberman shares the lives of four generations of an urban Jewish-American Family in Chicago, and captures the wonder of these milestones with a combination of humor and humility that bespeaks wisdom. Lieberman grew up in Albany Park, a Jewish neighborhood on Chicago's northwest side. During his childhood, Eastern European immigrants bet with Feldman, the Jewish handicapper from the Sun-Times. Teenagers descended like locusts on the old Terminal Theater on Friday nights. And his father, Shmulky, played cards at night in the neighborhood cigar store, until dawn or until he was broke, whichever came first. Follow young Syd from Albany Park to Harvard to Sierra Leone in the Peace Corps, to teaching high school English and raising his own family.