Gertrude berg biography meaning

Born 3 October , New York, New York; died 14 September , New York, New York

Daughter of Jacob and Diana Goldstein Edelstein; married Lewis W. Berg,

A second-generation American raised in New York City, Gertrude Berg drew observations of Jewish family life from her own childhood as well as from exhaustive research into urban Jewish folkways.

Berg attended New York City public schools and took extension courses in playwriting at Columbia University from to She spent her childhood summers in the Catskill Mountains of New York, where she wrote and performed sketches to amuse the guests at her father's hotel.

For three years after her marriage, Berg lived on a sugar plantation in Louisiana, spending most of her time reading and writing. She began writing for radio after her return to New York.

Berg's first attempt at a radio series was Effie and Laura (), a story about two worldly young women who worked in a five-and-ten and talked about everything from eco