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9780803269002

Growing Up Jewish in America

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  • ISBN13:

    9780803269002

  • ISBN10:

    0803269005

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Bison Books
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Summary

These childhood memories of one hundred men and women, ranging in age from twenty-two to ninety-nine, create a vivid portrait of American Jewish life in the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Oral historians Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer are professors at Dartmouth College. Their jointly written books include It Happened in Brooklyn and It Happened on Broadway.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Voices xi
Prologue 1(4)
PART ONE: Into a Good Land 5(98)
The Old Stories
6(18)
We Were Yankee Jews
24(16)
Down South
40(16)
All Over This Land
56(26)
New York, New York
82(21)
PART TWO: In Our Times 103(44)
Tikkun Olam---The Repair of the World
104(10)
Shoah
114(20)
The Precious Promised Land
134(13)
PART THREE: The Sacred and the Secular 147(92)
Making a Living
148(20)
Sacred Time
168(16)
Coming of Age
184(16)
L'Dor Va'Dor---From Generation of Generation
200(22)
A Tenuous Balance
222(17)
Considered Reflections 239(4)
Glossary 243(8)
Bibliography 251(2)
Picture Credits 253(2)
Acknowledgments 255(2)
Index 257

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