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Reuven Malter's Analysis

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The narrator, Reuven Malter, describes his neighborhood that he’s lived in for 15 years. His neighborhood is heavily populated by the Orthodox Jews that included many Hasidic sects. He goes on to talk about the yeshiva¬ – a Jewish parochial school- in which the male children of the household “studied from eight or nine in the morning to four or five in the evening” (4). Later on, he mentions Danny, another kid in his neighborhood. Danny’s father ran his own yeshiva while Reuven’s dad owned his own. Reuven’s yeshiva was “looked down upon” because they taught more English subjects and taught in Hebrew rather than Yiddish (4). We are then introduced to competitive leagues between the yeshivas in a wide range of sports. These are formed to prove

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