Our Parents' Lives: Jewish Assimilation in Everyday Life by Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Neil M. Cowan

Our Parents' Lives: Jewish Assimilation in Everyday Life

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Neil M. Cowan

336 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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An account of how Eastern European Jewish immigrants moved from the old world into the new, grappling with an American lifestyle whilst trying to retain their traditional identity. Interviews with American Jews and the Cowan's use of oral narrativ...

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