Betty Fagenson Lewis: My Autobiography, 1903 -- 1998
Shabbat
On Shabbat we were not allowed to do anything, so we would put on pretty little dresses and go walking to the river. Everyone in the shtetl would walk to the river. During the summer months, we would walk through the fields of high grass which led to the river, where we would undress and bathe, naked. This was the custom of many families -- to go on a hot summer's morning to the river to bathe.
