Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Napping on the "A" Train in New York City
Judith Kirshner (Eger), Marash Girl's college classmate and dear friend, grew up in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from college, Marash Girl would travel to Brooklyn to visit Judith. And, of course, traveling between Brooklyn and New York City, the two young women experienced many adventures.
As Marash Girl thinks back to those days, she finds it hard to give credence to the fact that, at the end of the day, a day of escapades in Manhattan, Marash Girl and Judith would be so tired, that after boarding the "A" train, they would stretch out on the seats of the subway car, seats on opposite siet off the train at the right stop...
Believe it or not, that's the truth, and Marash Girl is stickin' with it!!!
And here's a photo of Judith taken years after she and Marash Girl rode the "A" train together.
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ReplyDeleteYou had passed on the message from the pastor about the death of Judith Eger - I didn't recognize the name, so didn't respond. But now of course I remember, and mourn, Judith Kirshner (Eger). I recall her as a person of great energy and wit in Cabot Hall. One of her lines, delivered with great drama, described the sliced ham we had as a special meal as "Sliced Child"! Both grisly and apt to describe the circular pinkish slab, and also with some bitterness in the complete lack of accommodation made by the meal planners to the many resident students who were Jewish. I remember a couple of observant Orthodox women students living on boiled eggs and packages from home, while no doubt paying full room and board.
ReplyDeleteHugs in sadness. Yes, may God rest her soul and welcome her.
One of my memories of Judith while we were at Radcliffe —
ReplyDeleteShe loved the image of Judith slaying Holerfenes!
From the internet:
Judith Slaying Holofernes is a painting by the Italian early Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, completed in 1612-13 and now at the Museo Capodimonte, Naples, Italy.[1] It is considered one of her iconic works. The canvas shows the scene of Judith beheading Holofernes. Early feminist critics interpreted the painting as a form of visual revenge following Gentileschi's rape by Agostino Tassi in 1611; more recent analysis of the painting has taken a broader view, seeing the painting in the context of Gentileschi's achievement in portraying strong women.[2] The subject takes an episode from the apocryphal Book of Judith in the Old Testament, which recounts the assassination of the Assyrian general Holofernes by the Israelite heroine Judith. The painting shows the moment when Judith, helped by her maidservant Abra, beheads the general after he has fallen asleep drunk.
Deron remembers when Judith and her husband visited us in Wilbraham in the summer of 1993. He writes, "I remember one evening all of us sitting on the porch, probably right before dinner time."
ReplyDeleteBut, as Grandpa Peter would have said, those days are gone . . . forever!
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