Category Archives: Sol Goldberg biography

Sol Goldberg and A Sow’s Ear in The Bowery Boogie !

http://www.boweryboogie.com/2012/04/recap-found-objects-forgotten-stories-at-the-eldridge-street-synagogue/

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Chasing a Name Lost to Time: The New York Times

Originally published at http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/chasing-a-name-lost-to-time-2/ July 2, 2011 Chasing a Name Lost to Time By JOSEPH BERGER Benjamin P. Feldman, a retired real estate investor with the time and the money to chase his enthusiasms, was rummaging through a bin at a flea market in Chelsea last winter when he came across a weathered leather change […]

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A Sow’s Ear…

“You can’t turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse” goes the popular refrain. I beg to differ, though. Sometimes one may. Browsing among the vast piles of bric-a-brac in a Chelsea flea market right before Hannukah, a tiny leather change purse caught my eye. Sifting through piles of dust-covered junk, golden lettering on the […]

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