In 1929, the great American radio-listening public was first introduced to The Goldbergs. The brainchild of the actress and writer Gertrude Berg—who starred as the clan’s beloved yiddische mama, Molly—The Goldbergs was not only groundbreaking in a formal sense but also for its portrayal of the denizens of 1038 East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx as a relatable American family. And it did so even as anti-Semitism was ascending to its most virulent heights worldwide (a topic the show was unafraid to confront; one famous episode airing shortly after Kristallnacht had bigots throwing a brick through the Goldberg family’s front window).
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