Jewish grandmothers
By: Sydelle Kramer and Jenny Masur, editors ; with photos by Catherine Foley.
Contributors: Kramer, Sydelle.; Masur, Jenny.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Jews -- Soviet Union -- Biography; Jews -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions; Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography; Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions; Jewish women; Soviet Union -- Social conditions; Chicago -- Social conditions
Notes: Bibliography: p. 173-174.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Breaking stereotypes.; title: Why they came to America: Shapiro, F. The rebel. Rothman, S. The watchmaker. Soskin, R. The hungry child.; title: How they came, the passage to America: Moscowitz, P. The child immigrant. Govsky, K. Getting here the hard way.; title: How they fared: Sharrow, A. The radical in exile. Linker, M.  The mother in the community. Pollock, B. The American par excellence. Richter, I. The entrepreneur/raconteur. Katz, R. The loneliness of old age.; title: Afterword: For the record.; title: Background notes on customs and events.