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The Live and
Let Live Meat Market
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"Sometimes I'm asked when I became a feminist,
and I usually answer, 'The day I was born.' If I
was born a rebel, I attribute it to my family
heritage. My father, Emanuel Savitzky, fled to the
United States from Czarist Russia when the
Russo-Japanese War of 1905 broke out. He hated war.
Once he told me how depressed he felt when America
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World War I. While President Wilson
was proclaiming his 14-point peace settlement, my
father painted his own one-point peace plank
outside his butcher shop on Ninth Avenue in
Manhattan. He renamed it 'The Live and Let Live
Meat Market.'
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"My father did not do very well in business:
'Live and Let Live' is not exactly a formula for
commercial success. An extraordinarily
sweet-tempered man, his real love was music. On
Friday nights, after the big traditional Sabbath
meal, he would sing Yiddish and Russian folk songs
for us in his fine tenor. My sister, Helena, would
play the piano. I scraped bravely away at the
violin. (An interviewer once asked my mother what
she thought of my political career. 'Oh.
I knew Bella would be a success,' she said,
'because she always did her homework and practiced
her violin.'"
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How to Cite This Page
For a bibliography:
Jewish Women's Archive. "JWA - Bella Abzug - Live and Let Live Meat Market." <http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/abzug/meat.html>.
For a footnote:
Jewish Women's Archive, "JWA - Bella Abzug - Live and Let Live Meat Market," <http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/abzug/meat.html>.
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