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