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What they saved : pieces of a Jewish past / Nancy K. Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Nancy K., 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--United States--Biography.
- Jews.
- Jews, Moldovan--United States--Biography.
- Jews, Moldovan.
- Jews--Moldova--Chișinău--Biography.
- Miller, Nancy K., 1941---Family.
- Miller, Nancy K.
- Kipnis family.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln [Neb.] : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Winner of the 2012 Jewish Journal Book Prize After her father's death, Nancy K. Miller discovered a minuscule family archive: a handful of photographs, an unexplained land deed, a postcard from Argentina, unidentified locks of hair. These items had been passed down again and again, but what did they mean? Miller follows their traces from one distant relative to another, across the country, and across an ocean. Her story, unlike the many family memoirs focused on the Holocaust, takes us back earlier in history to the world of pogroms and mass emigrations at the turn of the twentieth century. Se
- Contents:
- pt. 1. How I found my family in a drawer
- pt. 2. Saving the name
- pt. 3. Memoirs of a wondering Jew.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238).
- ISBN:
- 9786613593078
- 9780803292611
- 0803292619
- 9781280497841
- 128049784X
- 9780803233898
- 0803233892
- OCLC:
- 785943235
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