Mother’s Day – We celebrate but we also mourn. In the light of recent discoveries by Stevan M Weine, we particularly mourn – Naomi, poor tragic, abused, frightened Naomi, immortalized in Allen’s masterpiece epic, “Kaddish”

Stevan Weine writes at length on Naomi on her mental instability and the impact its had on her son.
Lyle Brooks, Allen’s nephew, (son of his brother Eugene) discusses his grandmother’s hospitalization as part of Stephanie Kips’ remarkable Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital Oral History Project (including also brief footage of Allen and Naomi at Pilgrim State Hospital) – here:
(Strange too, to think that you too, Allen, no longer “walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village” – two souls reunited in the poem and in eternity)
