A few mornings a week, Tal Bar-Zemer dons a black floor-length skirt, white blouse, pinafore and lace-up leather boots in preparation for her job as a costumed interpreter at Manhattan’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum. On any given afternoon, she spends six

to eight hours sitting in an overheated, cramped apartment, talking — in character — to museum visitors about the life of a young Jewish immigrant struggling to prepare it in New York in 1916.

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