Research Catalog

Title

The Jew store / Stella Suberman.

Author

Suberman, Stella.

Publication

Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001, c1998.

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Details

Description

298 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

The daughter of a immigrant Jewish dry goods store owner tells of growing up in a small Tennessee town where they are the only Jewish family.

Subject

• Suberman, Stella > Childhood and youth
• Jews > Tennessee > Biography
• Jewish businesspeople > Tennessee > Biography
• General stores > Tennessee

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Autobiographies

Note

• Originally published : 1998.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Destination -- Avram Plotchnikoff's New Name -- A Nice Jewish Girl -- For Better or for Worse -- God's (So to Speak) Country -- Miss Brookie's Cousin Tom -- Xenophobia -- My Father's Fancy Footwork -- Bronson's Low-Priced Store -- Green Eyeshades -- No Picnic -- Opening Day -- In Christ's Name, Amen -- A Gleam in My Mother's Eye -- Two Social Calls -- A House and Neighbors -- My Mother's Dilemma -- Seth's New Job -- New York Aunts -- The Bar Mitzvah Question -- Gentiles -- Joey's Homecoming -- Miriam's Romance -- Aunt Hannah's Wedding -- Concordia's Savior -- Miriam's Rescue -- Push Comes to Shove.

ISBN

• 1565123301 (pbk.) :
• 9781565123304 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 48507214
• SCSB-12573252

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library