Our Parents' Lives

By - Cowan, Neil M , Cowan, Ruth Schwartz

Floor - Floor 4

Published - Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., 1996

ISBN 10 - 081352296X

ISBN 13 - 9780813522968

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Oral history

Shelf No - 6

Call Number - 973.0492 COW

Physical Description - xxvii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes - Includes index.

Book Information

An account of how Eastern European Jewish immigrants moved from the old world into the new, grappling with an American lifestyle whilst trying to retain their traditional identity. Interviews with American Jews and the Cowan's use of oral narrative convey the Jewish experience of American culture.

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