Poet George Ellenbogen's memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journey from Franz Joseph's Austro-Hungarian empire to Montreal in the 1920s. This book charts his discovery of how an immigrant Jewish neighbourhood -- a tight-knit shtetl with extended families that had its own shops, institutions, and daily Yiddish newspapers -- sustained him and his family as well as thousands of others. The revelations ripple outward and what surfaces -- the markers of his parents' navigation in a new world and his own youth in the 1940s and 1950s Montreal -- extend to all. They become part of the universal map in which readers will recognise their own quirky courses into childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
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ISBN | 9781550653564 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Vehicule Pr |
Jahr | 20130901 |
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