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Jacob's cane : a Jewish family's journey from the four lands of Lithuania to the ports of London and Baltimore / Elisa New.

Title
Jacob's cane : a Jewish family's journey from the four lands of Lithuania to the ports of London and Baltimore / Elisa New.
Author
New, Elisa
Publication
New York : Basic Books, c2009.

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Description
v, 328 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
A five-generation family memoir captures the Jewish-American immigrant experience, describing the author's research into her ancestry while offering insight into the profound influence of modern German culture from the Enlightenment through the Holocaust.
Subject
  • Levy family
  • Barron family
  • New, Elisa > Family
  • New, Elisa > Travel > Lithuania > Anecdotes
  • Jews > Baltimore > Biography
  • Jewish businesspeople > Maryland > Biography
  • Jews > Lithuania > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Anecdotes
  • Biographies
  • Anecdotes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Initials -- From Shavli, in Lita -- From the river Bug to Riga -- The free Hanseatic city of Balt-ee-mewer -- That bewitching vegetable -- What is to be done? -- Beautiful machines -- What she wears, what he wears -- The social-eest -- Mother earth -- The arcadia works -- Jacob's cane -- Blitzkrieg Barbarossa -- Yellow star, gold star -- We expand from shrinking.
ISBN
  • 9780465015252 (alk. paper)
  • 0465015255 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2009029941
OCLC
  • 316825474
  • SCSB-11996569
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library