Howard Goldstein

The Home on Gorham Street looks back to an earlier era of care
for orphaned and dependent children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants.
Within this social history and ethnography, the voices of elders once
wards of the home in the 1930s and 1940s tell us in sometimes poetic,
often comic, usually ironic, and always poignant words what it was really
like to grow up in an orphanage.