FOREWORD Written Note: Fetter Velvel should be Fetter Arril The principal object I had in putting these words to paper was to afford my progeny and their descendants a factual account, so far as I can remember, of the background and forebears of those who shaped our lives and our heritage. It should, as well, […]
My parents were married on September 5, 1914, and I was born almost nine months to the day afterward in Mt. Sinai Hospital, just about fifty yards from where they lived in a second floor walkup apartment at 512 Reed Street. Pop told me I was delivered just as the noon whistle blew for lunch, […]
It was no more than a coincidence that the commencement of teen years was accompanied by the recognition of my coming of age in a religious sense—my bar mitzvah. I had already had some grounding in the basics of Hebrew study, but to be prepared for my confirmation required that I be coached in the […]
I shall now attempt to recount what I know of the brothers and sisters of my parents and their immediate issue, my cousins. Beginning with this paternal kinship, the eldest of the ten children of Shmuel and Sarah was Yoylik. Of Yoylik I know little, except that he was born circa 1878, was inducted into […]
Editor’s Note: Appearing in this short-lived poetry magazine are five poems by Bernard Toll, his essay “Realism Versus Imagination in Poetry,” and his short reviews of other poetry books (“Strains from Many Lyres”). Mr. Toll used the pseudonyms Bernard Tolle, Benjamin Corday, Gregory Anders, and Herbert Rawles. The poetry editor in the The Hartford Times wrote […]
Editor’s Note: The first five poems below appear in the Winter 1935 edition of Golden Verse, whose associate editor was Bernard Toll I MUSED BENEATH AN APPLE TREE I mused beneath an apple tree Of all that trees and men must know– The grass that grows upon the lea. And musing thus, unknowingly, An apple […]
Contract and Credit Accounts 1924-1926 43rd and Chestnut 2nd and Fairmont Avenue for B. Bernstein 17th and Ruscomb (?) 415 South Street for B. Bernstein 119-121 N. 5th Street for Mr. Judovich 538 N. 2nd Street for Mr. Getzig 63rd and Landsdowne for B. Bernstein 2210 N. Front St for B. Bornstein 433 n. […]
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Editor’s Note: Bernard Toll wrote the following play in 1975 for a contest sponsored by Plays and Players, which described itself as “the nation’s oldest little theater group.” The contest was established in honor of the 1976 Bicentennial in the United States; the winning playwright was to be awarded a $500 prize and see his […]
Toll Family History 