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Elizabeth Applebaum
AppleTree Editor

FYI: If you're planning a
trip, consider visiting these
former residences of famous
Jews (and send me a post-
card, or better yet an
expensive gift, once you get
there, OK?)

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office building, but years ago it
was a grand home that included a
gym and an art studio. It was here
that Gershwin wrote Porgy and

Bess.
Fiorello La Guardia, the New
York mayor and son of a Jewish
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mother and Italian-Catholic father,
spent his last years at 5020
Goodridge Ave. in Riverdale, N.Y.
Hannah Arendt, the German-born
Leon Trotsky, Lenin's sidekick, was
political scientist and
living at 1522 Vyse
author ofThe Banality of
Ave. in Claremont,
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Evil, focusing on the
N.Y., while residing
5600 West Maple • Suite D-418 • West Bloomfield • (248) 626-9550
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briefly in the United
Riverside Dr. in New
States in 1917. (The
York City (her last resi-
building is still standing,'
t dence).
still home to numerous
Theda Bara, the origi-
apartment dwellers —
nal vamp who corn-
no word on their politi-
Concerts
manded "Kiss me, my
cal affiliations, though.)
Weddings
fool!" (and not "Kiss me,
Richard Rodgers
you fool!" as everyone
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owned numerous grand
seems to believe) was
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homes with money earned from his
born in Cincinnati but spent much
grand musicals. His last house was
of her life in California. You can still
at 4800 Congress St. in Fairfield,
see her last home at 632 N. Alpine Conn. (Connecticut also is, of
Dr. in Beverly Hills.
course, the home of so-called singer
A oUNG
Jack Benny really was born in
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Michael Bolton — but why on earth
Q 4outh,
Waukegan, Ill., but no one knows
would anyone actually want to visit
for certain the exact address of his
a site where he once lived?) ❑
first
home.
What
is
known
is
that
he
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liVed . for a time at 224 S. Genesse
SA.)
St. in the Waukegan — a building
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you can still view to this day.
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Lenny Bruce, the comedian born
Canoeing and Sailing,
, c/o The
Israeli Dance, Overnights, Arts and Crafts,
Leonard Schneider, grew up at
Red Cross Swim Program
AppleTree, 27676 Franklin
710 Hughes St. in Lawrence,
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N.Y.
Oneg Shabbat, Drama, Israeli Singing,
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George Gershwin wrote his first
a ddress and phone number..if:
big hit, "Swanee," while living at
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New York, be sure to check out his
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his last residence. Today it's an
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