American Born: An Immigrant's Story, a Daughter's Memoir Brownstein Rachel M.
American Born: An Immigrant's Story, a Daughter's Memoir Brownstein Rachel M. An incisive memoir of Rachel M. Yet she already had an American passport tucked in her scant luggage. Brownstein's…
Specifikacia American Born: An Immigrant's Story, a Daughter's Memoir Brownstein Rachel M.
American Born: An Immigrant's Story, a Daughter's Memoir Brownstein Rachel M.
An incisive memoir of Rachel M. Yet she already had an American passport tucked in her scant luggage. Brownstein's seemingly quintessential Jewish mother, a resilient and courageous immigrant in New York.When she arrived alone in New York in 1924, eighteen-year-old Reisel Thaler resembled the other Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Eastern Europe who accompanied her.
She was, as she would boast to the end of her days, "American born."The distinguished biographer and critic Rachel M. Reisel had drawn her first breath on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1905, then was taken back to Galicia (in what is now Poland) by her father before she turned two. Brownstein began writing about her mother Reisel during the Trump years, dwelling on the tales she told about her life and the questions they raised about nationalism, immigration, and storytelling.
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