NEIL SIMON
The year Neil Simon was born.
What is 1927?
Where Brighton Beach is located in New York.
What is Brooklyn?
Where most Americans lived in the 1930s.
What are rural areas?
The Hebrew Bible has the same number of books as this Christianity's Old Testament.
What is Protestantism?
The name of Neil Simon's first Broadway play.
What is Come Blow Your Horn?
Where Neil Simon was born.
What is the Bronx, New York City?
It was Brighton Beach's competition in the 1980s.
What is Manhattan Beach?
The type of education most Americans in the 1930s and 1940s completed.
What is elementary school?
The fact that Judaism only worships one god puts this religion is certain category.
What is monotheism?
The name of the play that Neil Simon won his first Tony award for.
What is The Odd Couple?
The kind of childhood Neil Simon had.
What is sad and depressing?
This religious and ethnic group was dominate in Brighton Beach in the 18th and 19th century.
What is Judaism?
These laws were made to discriminate against African-American citizens.
What are Jim Crowe Laws?
The core text of the Jewish religion.
What is the Torah?
Neil Simon's first autobiographical plays.
What is Brighton Beach Memoirs?
Neil Simon's first Broadway experience.
What is Catch a Star?
Brighton Beach has the honor of being the first place in the United States to have this.
What is a bike path?
Jewish neighborhoods, businesses, and schools emerged as a way to maintain this.
What is cultural heritage and mutual support?
The weekly day of rest lasting from shortly before sundown on Friday night to nightfall on Saturday night.
What is Shabbat? (Saturday) (the Sabbath)
Neil Simon won a Pulitzer Prize for this play.
What is Lost in Yonkers?
Neil Simon died of this at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan on August 26, 2018, while hospitalized for kidney failure.
What is pneumonia?
This was Brighton Beach's nickname.
What is Little Odessa?
During this event, unemployment rates soared, and many families struggled to meet basic needs.
What is the Great Depression?
Jewish houses of prayer and study.
What are Synagogues?
The number of plays Neil Simon wrote.
What is 49?