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Feb 15, 2024 · Immigrant Roots: Jack Kirby, born on August 28, 1917, in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was the son of Austrian-Jewish immigrants. Benjamin Kurtzberg, Jack’s father, had immigrated to the United States in 1907, seeking new opportunities and a better life.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eric Abella Roth, Robin Swicord
- 1922
- “For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing.
- “You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age.
- “You are meant to lose the people you love. How else would you know how important they are to you?” ― Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
- “I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never. stopped me from loving you.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Childhood & Early Life. Jack Kirby was born on August 28, 1917, in the Lower East Side (LES) neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, to Rose (Burnstein) and Benjamin Kurtzberg. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Austria. His father worked at a garment factory. Since childhood, Jack had a liking for drawing.
Poverty was a fact of life. Benjamin Kurtzberg worked in a factory as a tailor. "The immigrants had to make a living," Jack said. "They had to support their families, and they did it on very little, so we had very little..."
190 quotes from The Inexplicable Logic of My Life: ‘Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory....
- Benjamin Alire Saenz
- 2017
Early life (1917–1935) Jack Kirby was born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28, 1917, at 147 Essex Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City ; he grew up there. [3] His parents, Rose (Bernstein) and Benjamin Kurtzberg, [3] were Austrian-Jewish immigrants, and his father earned a living as a garment factory worker. [4]
August 28 would have been Kirby’s 100th birthday. Benjamin Kurtzberg, Kirby’s father, signed his World War I draft card on ...
