My Mother and Me
Subtitle: Making It in New York After Making It Out of Berlin and Beirut
Publisher: PeterESchrag
Published: Feb 12, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780999856406
Description: "In this witty and insightful memoir, Peter Schrag meditates on the life of his mother, Ilse, who left Germany in 1933 to marry a German Jewish doctor in Lebanon. She left that marriage after five years (1933-1938) and made her way to New York City with her infant son. Together, mother and son built a new life. At once a rumination on the problems a Jewish refugee family faces in difficult times, an observation of the mysteries of the mother-son bond, and a treatise about what it means to be an American, My Mother and Me is a remarkable family story." -- back cover.
Notes: Source title: My Mother and Me: Making It in New York After Making It Out of Berlin and Beirut