NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Digitized photograph donated by Gail Levine on March 16, 2021. Collected through the Brooklyn Jewish History Project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded by the David Berg Foundation.
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TitleThe Levine family. Studio portrait of a young couple.
Biographical NoteGail Levine-Fried grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Her parents, Myrna (nee Minnie Samuel, and Manuel Levine married at the Kingston Avenue Synagogue on August 19, 1941. Gail was born in 1943 and her sister Bonnie in 1946. Manuel’s family emigrated from Poland to America around 1900. Myrna’s family, also from Poland, settled in Canada and Myrna became a United States citizen in 1953. Manuel worked for 25 years managing the sporting goods department at Sears, Roebuck and Company in Flatbush. He felt his Jewish identity hindered his advancement at Sears. The family became members of the Union Temple Synagogue of Brooklyn and Gail was involved from a young age in the community. It was there that she was confirmed, married Bob Fried in 1991, and became bat mitzvah in 2004.