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"My Name is Freida Sima": The American-Jewish Women's Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina

Person/Institution:
Baʼumel-Shṿarts, Yehudit Tidor (1959)
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Publisher:
Peter Lang
Place of publication:
Bern
Date:
2017
Extent, illustration, format:
367 S.; Ill.; 22.5 cm x 15.5 cm
Language:
Englisch
Abstract:
"Frieda Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the Untied States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881-1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New York City alone at age fifteen in 1911, her immigrant work life, her marriage to a widower with four sons, and the birth of their only daughter right before the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929. It describes how she and a whole immigrant generation survived that Depression, sent their children off to fight for America during the Second World War while worrying about what was happening to the families that they had left back in Europe. It takes the story further, describing what happened to her European family and how she was reunited with her surviving siblings after the war. The book continues for almost a half century after the end of the war, portraying the "Golden Years" of those former immigrants through their retirement and until the final years of their lives."--Page 4 of cover
Object text:
Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

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Universität Erfurt
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
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Created:
2023-04-18
Last changed:
2019-02-01
Added to portal:
2023-04-18