Streets and Alleys: Stories with a Chicago Accent

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.

Author: Syd Lieberman
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 05/18/2013
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781484119228

About the Author
Syd Lieberman is a nationally acclaimed storyteller and a Golden Apple award-winning teacher. He is known for his original historical pieces and his signature versions of Jewish and literary tales. Many of his best-loved stories deal with growing up in Chicago and raising a family in Evanston, IL. Syd has taught storytelling at the Kennedy Center and Disney World, and he has received commissions to write pieces for NASA; the Smithsonian Institution; Historic Philadelphia, Inc.; the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center; Johnstown, Pennsylvania; and the Van Andel Museum Center Museum in Grand Rapids, MI. Syd has been voted into the National Storytelling Network's Circle of Excellence, and his work has garnered awards from the American Library Association, Parents' Choice, and Storytelling World.

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