Ziggy’s Potato

Acknowledgements

While it may seem unorthodox, I have divided my acknowledgements between the dead and the living. Naturally, the dead precede the living.

Thank you to Ziggy, the man whose mythic story I have adapted and further mythologized here. While we met only twice, I shall never forget him.

I am immensely grateful to my Uncle Manny (Emanuel Mattathias Silver) a consummate storyteller and charismatic presence in my life, even after he was gone. My grandmother Jennie Klein Silver was a master organizer and fundraiser who always wanted to be a writer. Her lost wishes gleam in my heart.

An enormous thank you to my parents Milton Sorokin and Ethel Silver Sorokin. Together they were a perfect team.

And to the Six Million. My all their memories be a blessing to all of us.

As for the living, I could not have written Ziggy’s Potato without the unwavering support and confidence of my husband, Michael James, and of my two adult children, Levi and Julia. My love for you is infinite.

So many other people have joined me on this journey – some for short legs of the trip and others for the long haul. All are deeply appreciated. While I would like to say something about each of them, my warm thoughts about them would go on for too long, so with my apologies, their names, all of which are dear to me, will have to suffice.

Hallee Adelman; Suzy Becker; Jill Bellek and Jerald Goodman; Michael Berenbaum; Dan Berkowitz; Joanne Schwartz Buzaglo and Georges Buzaglo; Laurie Calkhoven; Helen Cann; Miriam Camitta; Elaine Cauder; Margaret Chiarelli; Barbara Cohen-Kligerman; Brian Corbett; Jeffrey Cornelius; Joan Chrestay; Jerlyn Custer; Jennifer Dean; Ann de Forest; Alice Beck Dubow; Shaune Ferrara; Debra Fickler; Dee Falvo; Neal Goff; Jim Goff and Rachel Sorokin Goff; Kit Grindstaff; Gail Harlow; Megan Helzner; Jane Herling; Brooke Herter James and David James; Ben and Kate James; Tony and Amabel James; Waleska James; Erica Jaffee; Jerry Jennings; Cathy Kozloski;  Neil Lader; Barb Massa; Tom Mendicino; Della Payne; Anne Le Gurun Piliero and Michael Piliero; William Reiss; Jen Rolecki; Ruth Setton; Andy Siegel; Leonard Silver; Max Silver; Susan Slott Silver; Rachel Sklar; Leo Sorokin and Pam Wolf; Wednesday Sorokin and Jim Peters;  Karen Greenberg Smith; Kathy Temean; Ellen Trachtenberg; Scott Treimel; LeeAnn van der Kwast; Claire Michelle Viola, and Flo and Steve Zeller.