Showing posts with label Maggie Gyllenhaal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maggie Gyllenhaal. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
106 East Broadway: The Silbowitz Family
Sam Silbowitz, Maggie Gyllenhaal's great, great uncle, on her mother's side, lived at 106 East Broadway in 1918. He was a cutter in the garment industry. The above was just a few buildings to the west of that address. It's between Pike Street and Forsyth.
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east broadway,
finding your roots,
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Finding Your LES Roots: Maggie Gyllenhaal
From Maggie's bio:
Maggie's mother Naomi Gyllenhaal was born Naomi Achs in New York City, the daughter of doctors Ruth (née Silbowitz) and Samuel Achs. She was raised in a family of "high-achieving New York Jews". She attended Barnard College in New York City, graduating with a BA in English. She later earned an MA in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University. Her first ex-husband is historian and Columbia professor Eric Foner. Her second ex-husband is film director Stephen Gyllenhaal, to whom she was married for 32 years and has also collaborated professionally. The couple's two children are actors Maggie and Jake. They have one grandchild, born to their daughter in 2006.Benjamin Silbowitz, Maggie's great grandfather, mentioned in From PBS' "Finding Your Roots" lived for a while on the Lower East Side before moving to the Bronx.
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