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Author: Stella Suberman Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1565123301 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 321
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The author describes her family's life in a small town in Tennessee before World War II, where, as the first Jews in town, they owned a dry goods store and struggled to prosper in a place where Jews were treated as outsiders
Author: Stella Suberman Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1565123301 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
The author describes her family's life in a small town in Tennessee before World War II, where, as the first Jews in town, they owned a dry goods store and struggled to prosper in a place where Jews were treated as outsiders
Author: Milkyway Media Publisher: Milkyway Media ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 49
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 My parents were very different in temperament. My mother was the one who looked back, fretted, and viewed with alarm. My father lived for the future, and he always hoped for the best. #2 When my father and his family arrived in Concordia, they were greeted by two brothers, T and Erv Medlin, who told them they had never before seen a Jew who wasn’t a peddler. When my father explained that he was opening a store there, the brothers were confused. #3 The house of Brookie Simmons, the richest girl in Concordia, was a little different from the other twostory white frame houses in that it seemed wide rather than tall. It was perched on the roof of an attic that had ignored symmetry and simply shot itself off to one side. #4 The Simmonses’ house was dark and smelt musty. My mother thought the beds were very soft, but she was nervous about the bathrooms. She didn’t know how much they were being charged, and when she asked my father, he said he didn’t ask or know.
Author: Everest Media, Publisher: Everest Media LLC ISBN: 166935623X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 49
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 My parents were very different in temperament. My mother was the one who looked back, fretted, and viewed with alarm. My father lived for the future, and he always hoped for the best. #2 When my father and his family arrived in Concordia, they were greeted by two brothers, T and Erv Medlin, who told them they had never before seen a Jew who wasn’t a peddler. When my father explained that he was opening a store there, the brothers were confused. #3 The house of Brookie Simmons, the richest girl in Concordia, was a little different from the other two-story white frame houses in that it seemed wide rather than tall. It was perched on the roof of an attic that had ignored symmetry and simply shot itself off to one side. #4 The Simmonses’ house was dark and smelt musty. My mother thought the beds were very soft, but she was nervous about the bathrooms. She didn’t know how much they were being charged, and when she asked my father, he said he didn’t ask or know.
Author: Stella Suberman Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1565129091 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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When Stella Suberman wrote her first memoir, The Jew Store, at the age of seventy-six, she was widely praised for shedding light on a forgotten piece of American history--Jewish life in the rural South. In her new memoir, Suberman reveals yet another overlooked aspect of America's past--the domestic side of war. Her story begins in the Miami Beach she grew up in, when hotel signs boasted "Always a View, Never a Jew" and where a passenger ship lingered just off shore carrying hundreds of European Jews hoping for--but never finding--sanctuary. It was a time of innocence, before that war in Europe became our war. Stella was nineteen when America entered the fighting. By the time she was twenty-three, the war was over. She married Jack Suberman the week he enlisted and set out alone to join him in California. She was kicked off trains to make room for soldiers, her luggage was stolen, she was arrested for soliciting, but she was determined to follow her husband. And she did so for the next four years as he was sent from air base to air base, first training to be a bombardier and then training others. It wasn't until he was sent overseas to fly combat missions that she finally went back home to wait, as did so many other soldier's wives. This remarkable memoir renders a double understanding of war--of how it matured a young woman and how it matured a country. By personalizing the patriotism of the 1940s, Stella Suberman's story becomes the story of all military wives and serves as a powerful reminder of how differently many Americans feel about war sixty years later.
Author: Wendy Reed Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 0817317678 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 248
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Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South. Mary Karr, in “Facing Altars,” describes how the consolation she found in poetry directed her to a similar solace in prayer. In “Chiaroscuro: Shimmer and Shadow,” Susan Cushman recounts how her dissatisfaction with a Presbyterian upbringing led her to hold her own worship services at home and eventually to join the Eastern Orthodox Church. “Magic” by Amy Blackmarr depicts a religious practice that occurs wholly outside of any formal setting—she recognizes places, such as a fishing shack in south Georgia, and things, such as crystal Cherokee earrings, as reminders that God exists everywhere and that a Great Comforter is always present. In “The Only Jews in Town,” Stella Suberman gives her account of growing up as a religious minority in Tennessee, connecting her story to a larger narrative of Eastern European Jews who moved away from the Northeast, often to found and run “Jew stores” in midwestern and southern towns. Alice Walker, in an interview with Valerie Reiss titled “Alice Walker Calls God ‘Mama,’” relates her dynamic relationship with her God, which includes meditation and yoga, and explains how she views the role of faith in her work, including her novel The Color Purple. These essays showcase the large spectrum of spirituality that abides in the South, as well as the equally large spectrum of individual women who hold these faiths.
Author: Brandon P. Fleming Publisher: Hachette Books ISBN: 0306925125 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 272
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An inspiring memoir of one man’s transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate—all by the age of twenty-seven. Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a nod to his skill on the basketball court, not his presence in the classroom. He turned to the streets and drug deals by fourteen, saved only by the dream of basketball stardom. When he suffered a career-ending injury during his first semester at a Division I school, he dropped out of college, toiling on an assembly line, until depression drove him to the edge. Miraculously, his life was spared. Returning to college, Fleming was determined to reinvent himself as a scholar—to replace illiteracy with mastery over language, to go from being ignored and unseen to commanding attention. He immersed himself in the work of Black thinkers from the Harlem Renaissance to present day. Crucially, he found debate, which became the means by which he transformed his life and the tool he would use to transform the lives of others—teaching underserved kids to be intrusive in places that are not inclusive, eventually at Harvard University, where he would make champions and history. Through his personal narrative, readers witness Fleming’s transformation, self-education, and how he takes what he learns about words and power to help others like himself. Miseducated is an honest memoir about resilience, visibility, role models, and overcoming all expectations.
Author: Helen Fremont Publisher: Delta ISBN: 0307804658 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 368
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“Fascinating . . . A tragic saga, but at the same time it often reads like a thriller filled with acts of extraordinary courage, descriptions of dangerous journeys and a series of secret identities.”—Chicago Tribune “To this day, I don't even know what my mother's real name is.” Helen Fremont was raised as a Roman Catholic. It wasn't until she was an adult, practicing law in Boston, that she discovered her parents were Jewish—Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not even their names were their own. In this powerful memoir, Helen Fremont delves into the secrets that held her family in a bond of silence for more than four decades, recounting with heartbreaking clarity a remarkable tale of survival, as vivid as fiction but with the resonance of truth. Driven to uncover their roots, Fremont and her sister pieced together an astonishing story: of Siberian Gulags and Italian royalty, of concentration camps and buried lives. After Long Silence is about the devastating price of hiding the truth; about families; about the steps we take, foolish or wise, to protect ourselves and our loved ones. No one who reads this book can be unmoved, or fail to understand the seductive, damaging power of secrets. Praise for After Long Silence “Poignant . . . affecting . . . part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past.”—The New York Times Book Review “Riveting . . . painfully authentic . . . a poignant memoir, a labor of love for the parents she never really knew.”—The Boston Globe “Mesmerizing . . . Fremont has accomplished something that seems close to impossible. She has made a fresh and worthy contribution to the vast literature of the Holocaust.”—The Washington Post Book World
Author: Lou Ureneck Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101544279 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 177
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Inspired by his From the Ground Up New York Times blog, a beautifully written memoir about building and brotherhood. Confronted with the disappointments and knockdowns that can come in middle age-job loss, the death of his mother, a health scare, a divorce-Lou Ureneck needed a project that would engage the better part of him and put him back in life's good graces. City-bound for a decade, Lou decided he needed to build a simple post-and-beam cabin in the woods. He bought five acres in the hills of western Maine and asked his younger brother, Paul, to help him. Twenty years earlier the brothers had built a house together. Now Lou saw working with Paul as a way to reconnect with their shared history and to rediscover his truest self. As the brothers-with the help of Paul's sons-undertake the challenging construction, nothing seems to go according to plan. But as they raise the cabin, Ureneck eloquently reveals his own evolving insights into the richness and complexity of family relationships, the healing power of nature, and the need to root oneself in a place one can call home. With its exploration of the satisfaction of building and of physical labor, Cabin will also appeal to readers of Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft, and Tracy Kidder's House.
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