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On Rockingham Street : reclaiming my family's Jewish identity-- our journey from Vilna to the suburban south / David R. Kuney.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kuney, David R., 1945-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Jewish families--United States--History.
Jewish families.
History.
United States.
Physical Description:
1 volume (xi, 220 pages) ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock, 2021.
Contents:
On forgetting: Sol on Broadway (Chicago, 1930)
Vilna: the Jerusalem of Lithuania- intimations of the sacred (1890-1910)
Love and death in Vilna: reason enough to leave (1911-1913)
The journey: by land and by sea (1913)
Sol alone in Chicago (1913-1917)
Anna's last years in Vilna and her journey to Siberia (1913-1916)
Chasing chaim grade
Joseph and Esther: early years in Chicago (1917-1937)
The middle years in Chicago (1932-1946)
The end of Vilna as the Jerusalem of Lithuania (1941)
America goes to war: the second generation of Kuneys in America (1941)
The closing days of life in Chicago (1945-1947)
General Robert E. Lee's Arlington
The second migration: Chicago to Glebewood (1946-1952)
Rockingham Street: Vilna again? (1952)
Arlington-Fairfax Jewish Center (1950)
From colonial Jews to synagogue Jews (1958-1960)
Joe as president of the Center: the bland sixties (1960-1963)
A Jeffersonian Jew (1963)
The end of the Rockingham era (1965-1968)
Closing the boxes.
Notes:
Includes biblographical references.
ISBN:
1725265737
9781725265738
OCLC:
1255217324
Publisher Number:
99987974314

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