LPPM MMV "A Mother Who ..."

[Dave Monroe]

"... this was the part of him inherited from a mother
who at the age of 19 had struggled with her soul one
night in a railroad flat somewhere in Hell's Kitchen
and, half-drunk on bootleg beer, had ended up refuting
Aquinas and quitting the Roman church; who would grin
fondly at her husband and refer to him as an innocent
slob who never had a chance against her female
cunning, and advise Seigel never to marrv a schickseh
but to find himself some nice quiet Jewish girl
because at least there you were given a running
start." (MMV, p. 1)


Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen ... more than a neighborhood ...it's a
state of mind. From the slaughterhouses and breweries
of the 1800s, the draft riots of 1863, the Fighting
69th of World War I, the home of New York's most
dangerous criminals from the early tenement days to
Prohibition to the Westies, Hell's Kitchen rose from
the blood and fire of the poor dreaming their riotous
dreams and searing the urban landscape with a wild,
demanding spirit....

http://www.midtownmedia.com/chronicle/HKhistory.htm

The New York neighborhood bordered by 14th and 52nd
Streets, and Eighth Avenue and the waterfront, has a
rich history of crime and bloodshed....

During the latter half of the 19th century, Hell's
Kitchen was a notorious haven for gangs who prowled
"the tenements, grog shops, slaughter houses, railroad
yards, and gas works" that employed it's huge
immigrant population. Men with names like Dutch
Heinrichs, Owney Madden, and Bully Morrison ruled the
streets. Cops walked in pairs, if at all. 

The term "Hell's Kitchen" first appeared in print on
September 22, 1881 in a New York Times piece covering
a grisly multiple murder in the neighborhood. The
writer refers to a tough tenement as "Hell's Kitchen,"
and calls the surrounding block "probably the lowest
and filthiest in the city." 

Today's Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton, is a
vibrant neighborhood currently battling encroaching
gentrification....

http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20000629.html

And see as well ...

http://www.hellskitchennyc.com/


Aquinas

St. Thomas Aquinas
Philosopher, theologian, doctor of the Church
(Angelicus Doctor), patron of Catholic universities,
colleges, and schools. Born at Rocca Secca in the
Kingdom of Naples, 1225 or 1227; died at Fossa Nuova,
7 March, 1274. 

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm

Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) lived at a critical
juncture of western culture when the arrival of the
Aristotelian corpus in Latin translation reopened the
question of the relation between faith and reason,
calling into question the modus vivendi that had
obtained for centuries. This crisis flared up just as
universities were being founded.... countered both the
Averroistic interpretations of Aristotle and the
Franciscan tendency to reject Greek philosophy. The
result was a new modus vivendi between faith and
philosophy which survived until the rise of the new
physics. Thomas's theological writings became
regulative of the Catholic Church and his close
textual commentaries on Aristotle represent a cultural
resource which is now receiving increased recognition.
The following account concentrates on Thomas the
philosopher and presents him as fundamentally an
Aristotelian.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/

And see as well ...

http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/aquinas.htm

Summa Theologica

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/


"shickseh"

Shikseh - Non-Jewish girl

http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/yidgloss.html

http://www.templesanjose.org/JudaismInfo/writing/yiddishphrases.pdf

Shikseh

(SHIK-seh) n. Non-Jewish girl or woman; hence,
seductress

http://hebrew4christians.com/Glossary/Yiddish_Words/yiddish_words.html#Sh

http://hebrew4christians.com/Glossary/Yiddish_Words/yiddish_words.html



	
		
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