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Title:

Jewish grandmothers / Sydelle Kramer and Jenny Masur, editors ; with photos by Catherine Foley.

Publisher:

Beacon Press,

Copyright Date:

c1976

Description:

xvi, 174 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Jews in Chicago--Biography.
Jews in Chicago--Social conditions.
Jews in Russia--Biography.
Jews in Russia--Social conditions.
Women, Jewish.
Chicago--Social conditions.
Russia--Social conditions.

Other Authors:

Kramer, Sydelle.
Masur, Jenny.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 173-174.

Contents:

Introduction: Breaking stereotypes.--Why they came to America: Shapiro, F. The rebel. Rothman, S. The watchmaker. Soskin, R. The hungry child.--How they came' the passage to America: Moscowitz, P. The child immigrant. Govsky, K. Getting here the hard way.--How they fared: Sharrow, A. The radical in exile.--Linker, M. The mother in the community. Pollock, B. The American par excellence. Richter, I. The entrepreneur/raconteur. Katz, R. The loneliness of old age.--Afterword: For the record.--Background notes on customs and events.

ISBN:

9780807054208
0807054208

LCCN:

75005292

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)