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Author:

Molodowsky, Kadia, 1894-1975, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019040237

Title:

A Jewish refugee in New York : Rivke Zilberg's journal / Kadya Molodovsky ; translated by Anita Norich.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xxiii, 172 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jewish refugees--Poland--Fiction.
Jewish women--Poland--Fiction.
Jews--New York--New York--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Jewish refugees--New York--New York--Fiction.
Jewish women--New York--New York--Fiction.
Jews, Polish--New York--New York--Fiction.
Fiction.

Other Authors:

Norich, Anita, 1952- translator. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87147765

Other Titles:

Fun Lublin biz Nyu Yorḳ. English

Notes:

Translation of: Fun Lublin biz Nyu Yorḳ : ṭog-bukh fun Rivḳe Zilberg. Translated from the Yiddish. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"Rivke Zilberg, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country. Struggling to learn a new language and cope with a different way of life in the United States, Rivke finds herself keeping a journal about the challenges and opportunities of this new land. In her attempt to find a new life as a Jewish immigrant in the US, Rivke shares the stories of losing her mother to a bombing in Lublin, jilting a fiancé who has made his way to Palestine, and a flirtatious relationship with an American 'allrightnik.' In this fictionalized journal originally published in Yiddish, author Kadya Molodovsy provides keen insight into the day-to-day activities of the large immigrant Jewish community of New York. By depicting one woman's struggles as a Jewish refugee in the US during WWII, Molodovsky points readers to the social, political, and cultural tensions of that time and place"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

The modern Jewish experience

ISBN:

0253040760
9780253040763
0253040752
9780253040756

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1043141212

LCCN:

2019010971

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)