Objects of Love and Regret : A Brooklyn Story /

An award-winning historian and museum curator tells the story of his Jewish immigrant family by lovingly reconstructing its dramatic encounters with the memory-filled objects of ordinary life.At a pushcart stall in East New York, Brooklyn, in the spring of 1934, eighteen-year-old Sarah Schwartz boug...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rabinowitz, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Temas:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
1930s Movies.
Anti-Semitism.
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Brownsville.
Cold War.
East New York.
Family History.
Immigrants.
Jewish Cooking.
Jews.
Lower East Side.
Material Culture.
Mothers.
New York City.
Synagogue.
Tenements.
Women's work.
World War I.
World War II.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Rabinowitz Family
  • Introduction
  • 1 Sarah Buys a Bottle Opener
  • 2 Isaac Guss Finds an Artillery Shell
  • 3 Papa Doesn't Know from Ice Cream
  • 4 Shenka Puts Pencils Away in a Cigar Box
  • 5 Dave Splurges on a Bottle of Perfume
  • 6 Sarah Awaits the Mailman's Whistle
  • 7 Beverly Is Startled by the Scissors
  • 8 Dave Takes Out the Beach Chairs
  • 9 Richard Puts a Record on the Magnavox
  • 10 Sarah Warms Up Her Coffee on a Hot Plate
  • 11 Dave Never Has to Rewind the Clock
  • Further Reading
  • Acknowledgments

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