Coney Island Italian Sends Children to Yiddish School

An Italian living in Coney Island, Alfred Ritz by name, is sending his two children to be taught in the Coney Island “Sholem Aleichem Yiddish Folkshule.” His boys are among the best students of the works of Peretz, Sholom Aleichem and other Yiddish authors. Mr. Ritz was brought up in a Jewish environment in Chrystie Street. Manhattan, and speaks a very good Yiddish. In Coney Island he lives in a Jewish neighborhood, too, and is interested in having his children know Yiddish. Recently he has also joined the board of directors of the school, helping to raise money for the school’s upkeep as well as for a statue of the late Sholem Aleichem to be placed in the auditorium of the school.