 Situation Comedy (1929 - 49)
The Goldbergs is a situation-comedy series
about a family living, learning, and loving in a Jewish
ghetto of the Bronx, to some it's an East Coast variety
of One Man's Family.
It is considered to be one of the first popular radio
comedies based on the lives of a working-class Jewish
family. Gertrude Berg wrote The Goldbergs,
as a loosely based autobiography on her life as a
wife and mother in New York. To gain insight into
the tribulations of her characters Berg researched
incognito in the Bronx among the tenements and poor
conditions of family in poverty. In 1951, The Goldbergs
became a feature film with the production of Molly.
(Please note many of
these Goldbergs recordings having an unfortunately
'hissing' sound)
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