Stella Suberman (1922–2017)
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- Geboortedatum
- 1922-02-07
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2017-10-06
- Geslacht
- female
- Geboorteplaats
- Union City, Tennessee, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
Miami, Florida, USA
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A memoir about a Jewish family pursuing the American Dream in the early twentieth century South. With a novelist’s sense of scene, suspense, and characterization, Stella Suberman turns the clock back to a time when educated liberals were suspect and the Klan was a major threat to outsiders. In that setting, she brings to life her remarkable father, a man whose own brand of success proves that intelligence, empathy, and decency can build a home anywhere.
Ms. Suberman writes a sweet, loving memoir of her Jewish Russian immigrant parents and her siblings. Her father, known as Aaron in the book, moves his family from everything and everyone they know and love in NYC to, in 1920, a very rural corner of Tennessee.
The conditions are difficult, discrimination and prejudice are especially directed to Jewish, Catholic and people of color. The Klu Klux Klan is alive and well, approving or disapproving what they choose.
Aaron, however, is a patient and intelligent business man and in just a short period of time his "Jew Store" aka Bronson's Low Priced Store is in business and providing dry goods to farm families in the area.
All is not well with his wife, Reba. She misses the closeness of extended family and doesn't understand the Southern way of life. She laments the fact that there is no Jewish temple for her son to make Bar Mitzvah.
In a light-hearted manner, the author reveals how her family worked through these obstacles with eventual understanding and grace.… (meer)
The conditions are difficult, discrimination and prejudice are especially directed to Jewish, Catholic and people of color. The Klu Klux Klan is alive and well, approving or disapproving what they choose.
Aaron, however, is a patient and intelligent business man and in just a short period of time his "Jew Store" aka Bronson's Low Priced Store is in business and providing dry goods to farm families in the area.
All is not well with his wife, Reba. She misses the closeness of extended family and doesn't understand the Southern way of life. She laments the fact that there is no Jewish temple for her son to make Bar Mitzvah.
In a light-hearted manner, the author reveals how her family worked through these obstacles with eventual understanding and grace.… (meer)
This is a fascinating memoir of growing up in the Deep South during the 1920's. The Bronson family has to deal with layer after layer of American culture, first in New York City, where they find a tight immigrant community, and then in rural Tennessee where they are the only Russian Jewish immigrants and complete outsiders.
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- 464
- Populariteit
- #53,001
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- 3.7
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I grew up in a mid-sized, fairly sophisticated Southern town in the 50s and 60s, where there was a fair-sized Jewish community. And every bit as much antisemitism as Suberman's family faced. This is a wonderful window into the lives of the Southern Jews of the early 20th century, but probably not far off the mark for Jewish boomers, either.
Suberman's prose is note-perfect, and the story and people will grab you from the first page and won't let you go even on the last.… (meer)