12018-07-26T20:23:56-07:00Zoë Wilkinson Saldaña6beb73a90c38e77367b9737ee8e808917759a78e310404plain2020-08-04T12:24:30-07:00Rzhyschiv, UkraineMarch 10, 1878May 1, 1905122Los Angeles, California, United StatesIsabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8In 1911, the Yiddish short story writer Lamed Shapiro (1878-1948) moved from Warsaw and settled in New York. There he opened a small, vegetarian café called “Central” with his wife. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the café failed and closed soon after it opened, mostly because Shapiro would only reluctantly charge his customers, many of whom were his good friends.