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streets, staffed by doormen, elevator
operators and their own cook, maid
and governess, who raised Anne and
ome memoirs make you wish
her younger brother. Not that far
you could trade lives, at least
removed from the immigrants of the
for a moment. After reading
Lower East Side, these weren't the
Anne Roiphe's 1185 Park
Jews of Our Crowd.
Avenue (Free Press; $25), readers
Roiphe's portraits of her parents are
might admire the author's powerful
complex, painful, at times sympathet-
prose, but few gill have wanted to
ic. Throughout their marriage,
switch places or parents.
Blanche and Eugene fought loudly, in
Roiphe grew up at an elegant
front of their children, resulting in
address in New York City
Eugene walking
— one of the few Park
out and Blanche
Avenue buildings where
retreating to her
Jews could rent apartments
bedroom, with-
in the 1930s — but it was
tears streaking mas-
a home altogether lacking
cara over her face.
in love.
It's Blanche who is
The author of 12 books,
most vivid in the
Roiphe, 63, now lives in a
memoir.
Riverside Drive apartment,
Full of fears and
with great views of the
certain only of her
Upper West Side.
inadequacies, she
Responding to a comment
was a chain smoker,
about how she couldn't pos-
always with "ciga-
sibly have moved further
rettes burning in
west in Manhattan from
ashtrays all around
1185 Park Ave., she smiles
her like votive can-
and says that she finds corn-
dles." She slept late,
fort in this current address
ate breakfast served
but doesn't "make too much
to her in bed,
of literal geography. In New
sometimes went to
York, one can move — in
lunch with friends,
emotional or cultural geog-
saw her psychiatrist,
raphy — thousands of miles
had a cocktail, usu-
simply by crossing the
ally alone, at 5 p.m.
street," she says.
Roiphe offers
The author's mother,
litanies of details,
Blanche, was the heiress to
sharp and evoca-
the Van Heusen Phillips
tive. "She did not
Jones shirt company,
bake birthday
founded by her father,
cakes. She did not
Isaac, and grandfather
put away the silver
Moses, an immigrant from
or fold the nap-
Poland. Roiphe's father,
kins. She did not
Anne Roiphe: ( IfI could do it
Eugene Frederick Roth, was all over again, I would be an
polish or sweep or
born in Hungary and came even more knowledgeable Jew." hold the head of a
to the United States at age
vomiting child." It
9. He became a lawyer and
wasn't as though
spoke only English — without an
Blanche was mean-spirited as a moth-
accent — and it was no secret that he
er; rather, she just didn't know what to
married Blanche Phillips for her
do and thought the raising of children
money.
better left to others.
In 1931, after their honeymoon
When Anne was old enough to be
abroad, Roiphe's parents moved into
her mother's conversation partner, she
1185 Park, which looked like "a mock
lit Blanche's cigarettes and listened to
fortress, a combination cathedral and
her stories, craving her attention and
castle," stretching from 93rd to 94th
taking in every detail, fuel for the

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Special to the Jewish News

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In her new
memoir about
growing up rich
and Jewish in
New York in the
'40s and '50s,
writer Anne
Roiphe exposes
a family history
of sorrow
and pain.

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