Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: An haifi Allen Allan Stewart Konigsberg a cikin gundumar Brooklyn ta Birnin New York. Shi da 'yar uwarsa, Letty (b. 1943), an haife shi ne a Midwood, Brooklyn. Shi ɗan Nettie ne (née Cherry; Nuwamba 8, 1906 <unk> Janairu 27, 2002), mai kula da littafi a gidan danginta, da Martin Konigsberg (Disamba 25, 1900 <unk> Janairu 8, 2001), mai zanen kayan ado da mai ba da sabis. Iyalinsa yahudawa ne, kuma kakanninsa sun yi ƙaura zuwa Amurka daga Rasha da Austria kuma suna magana da yaren Yiddish, Ibrananci, da Jamusanci. Duk iyayen Allen an haife su kuma sun girma a Lower East Side na Manhattan. Yarancinsa ba shi da farin ciki musamman; iyayensa ba su samu ba, kuma yana da dangantaka mai banƙyama tare da mahaifiyarsa mai tsanani, mai fushi. Allen ya yi magana da Jamusanci sosai a farkon shekarunsa. Daga baya zai yi ba'a cewa lokacin da yake saurayi sau da yawa ana tura shi zuwa sansanin rani na addini. Yayin da yake halartar makarantar Ibrananci na shekaru takwas, ya tafi Makarantar Jama'a ta 99 (yanzu Makarantar Isaac Asimov don Kimiyya da Adabi) da kuma Makarantar Sakandare ta Midwood, inda ya kammala karatu a 1953. Ba kamar halin da yake yi ba, ya fi sha'awar wasan baseball fiye da makaranta kuma hannayensa masu ƙarfi sun tabbatar da cewa shi ne na farko da za a zaɓa don ƙungiyar. Ya burge ɗalibai da ƙwarewarsa ta musamman tare da katunan da sihiri. Don biyan kuɗi, ya rubuta barkwanci (ko "gags") ga wakili David O. Alber, wanda ya sayar da su ga masu rubutun jarida. A shekara 17 ya canza sunansa zuwa Heywood Allen kuma daga baya ya fara kiran kansa Woody Allen. A cewar Allen, wasansa na farko da aka buga ya karanta: "Woody Allen ya ce ya ci abinci a gidan cin abinci wanda farashin O.P.S. ya wuce albashin mutane". Yana samun fiye da iyayensa biyu. Bayan makarantar sakandare, ya halarci Jami'ar New York, yana karatun sadarwa da fim a 1953, kafin ya sauka bayan ya kasa karatun "Motion Picture Production". Ya yi karatun fim a Kwalejin City ta New York a 1954 amma ya bar kafin ƙarshen zangon farko. Ya koyar da kansa maimakon yin karatu a cikin aji. Ya koyar a The New School kuma ya yi karatu tare da malamin rubutu Lajos...  Tambaya: Wanne cikin iyayensa ya fi daɗewa a duniya?
Martin Konigsberg