Word: braunowitz
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...said, a photographer on the staff of a Manhattan newspaper. His original name was Jake Braunowitz, but he called himself John Brown so that his colleagues would not know that he was Jewish. He still lived with his family in Brooklyn, but he never allowed any of them to come near his office Once, when he was with friends in the restaurant where his sister," Rosannah, worked, John pretended not to recognize...
John told the psychiatrist all about "the wasteland" in which he and his family lived. Old Man Braunowitz, a Russian immigrant, was a grimy, scholarly, embittered man, who had nagged his simple wife into animal dullness and shirked his responsibilities as a father. Strong-willed daughter Deborah had backed up her mother and made herself the "father" of the family-and a Lesbian to boot. Daughter Rosannah had dutifully earned her living by serving in bars-which, to John's tortured, hypersensitive imagination, meant that she dallied with the barflies. Daughter Sarah had fled into the arms...
...last, he just seemed to fade away-and so did John Brown, the spineless misfit who drank too much, walked with a cringing stoop and wanted the girl he loved to be his mother rather than his wife. Into John Brown's shoes stepped self-confident Jake Braunowitz, who no longer hated his family, because he understood their desperate struggle, who no longer hated the world, because he believed that he had something to contribute...
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