Sheymes : a family album after the Holocaust / Elizabeth Wajnberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wajnberg, Elizabeth, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Wajnberg, Elizabeth, 1947-.

Wajnberg, Elizabeth.

Wajnberg, Elizabeth, 1947---Family.

Daughters--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Biography.

Daughters.

Children of Holocaust survivors--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Biography.

Children of Holocaust survivors.

Holocaust survivors--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Biography.

Holocaust survivors.

Jews, Polish--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Biography.

Jews, Polish.

Immigrants--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Biography.

Immigrants.

Jewish families--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Biography.

Jewish families.

Jewish families--Poland--Biography.

Poland.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 258 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Contents:

Introduction

A Note on the Transliteration of Yiddish

1. My Father's Visit

2. Paris Is the Most beautiful City in the World

3. Wood

4. The Forest of Beech Trees

5. Immigrants

6. "Send Away the Mother Bird"

7. My Sister's Visit, Montreal, 1980

8. Poppyseed Cake

9. "He Will Turn the Children toward the Parents", 1990

10. The Other Elizabeth

11. Shevirah (Shattering), November 1993

12. It's Lively in the Shtetl, December 1993

13. Mame-Loshen (Mother Tongue), 1995

14. April 1996

15. "Honour Thy Father and Mother," June 1996

16. Blindsight, 2000

17. Spring 1997

18. Rachamim (Compassion), 1997

Epilogue: Yizkor

Dertsaylung fun a geratevete - Account of a Rescued Person / by Chaja Zylberberg Wajnberg

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Some text in Yiddish.

Other Format:

Wajnberg, Elizabeth, 1947-, author. Sheymes.

ISBN:

0773544593

9780773544598

OCLC:

879528889

Publisher Number:

99960781609