Research Catalog

Title

The Arab and the Brit : the last of the welcome immigrants / Bill Rezak.

Author

Rezak, Bill.

Publication

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013.

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Description

xvi, 249 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Born of a Palestinian father and a British mother, the author has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came. His father's ancestors were highwaymen on the Arabian Peninsula in the eighteenth century. They sparred unsuccessfully with ruling Ottoman Turks and escaped with their families to America. His mother's parents were sent separately from Great Britain into indentured servitude in Canada, alone at the ages of ten and sixteen. They worked off their servitude, met, married, and moved to New York State. Narrating their experiences against the backdrop of two world wars and an emerging modern Middle East, the author describes their immigrant story. He recalls his paternal grandmother apprehending would-be Russian saboteurs during World War I, his grandfather's time at Dr. Bernardo's home, a shelter for destitute children, and his father's work with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Association following World War II.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Rezak, Bill > Family
• Palestinian Americans > Biography
• British Americans > Biography
• Immigrants > United States > Biography
• Indentured servants > Canada > Biography
• Palestine > Biography
• England > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 249) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Nazareth -- Bill Curnick and Barnardo's home -- Habeeb and the Ottoman Turks -- Canada -- Radia and Habeeb's heritage -- Life on the St. Lawrence River -- America? -- Bill's family comes to Canada -- The Rizks' journey to America -- Florence Elsie Belcher -- Ellis Island and beyond -- Florence and Bill -- Life in Syracuse -- The Curnicks of America -- Finally another Rizk -- Polly and Nick -- St. Elias Church and the other Rezaks -- Nick overseas -- The Yugoslav Rezaks -- Home to Syracuse -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Appendix.

ISBN

• 9780815609742 (cloth : alkaline paper)
• 0815609744 (cloth : alkaline paper)

LCCN

^^2012040261

OCLC

• 795164627
• SCSB-12614216

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library