Miscellany
A Tribute To Sluggo
My cousin Charles Roger Slucki, known by almost everyone as Sluggo, passed away suddenly in Los Angeles on the 29th December 2015. He was on his way home from a
Moshe Goldberg March 26, 2020
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My cousin Charles Roger Slucki, known by almost everyone as Sluggo, passed away suddenly in Los Angeles on the 29th December 2015. He was on his way home from a
Purchase a copy of this book directly from the publisher in the USA, Wayne State University Press Beyond its historical significance, Sing This is a well-written, engrossing memoir that I found
There is a great story in our family that I’ve heard bits and pieces of over the years, but I’d never gotten it in its entirety. So recently, on a
I grew up with a foot in each of two different Jewish universes. One was my father’s family’s secular, humanist, socialist, Bundist Jewish cultural heritage, about which I’ve written in
Occasionally, in the game of Chess, a player fancies his chances and takes a risk, sacrificing a piece – a knight, a bishop, or sometimes even a rook. Bobby Fischer
It was probably our first or second real game after I’d learnt how the pieces actually moved, what was allowed and what wasn’t, and what you’re supposed to do. My
My father started teaching me to play chess when I was around seven. He had been playing most of his life and was a pretty good player, especially when he
Mr. Taylor was – in my recollection – a tall, dark-haired, handsome man. I used to see him at my grandparents’ house because he was one of my grandfather’s Labor
Following Carlton <p style=”text-align: justify;”>If you lived where I did, you supported the Carlton Football Club. Apart from a handful of strange people who barracked for Collingwood, Fitzroy, Melbourne, or
Canning Street in North Carlton is a wide north-south road running from Park Street all the way through to distant Carlton and the Commission flats. My mother’s oldest sister Eda
Growing up in a large migrant community, there were lots of names that I was very familiar with – especially the “Jewish” names. Most Jewish people I knew were called
When I was around eight years old, we moved out of my grandparents’ house to a little half-house in East Brunswick. We might as well have moved to another country.
Moshe Goldberg wrote mainly about the Jewish immigrant experience, Australian sports, and inner suburban Australian history.
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