I Have a Story to Tell You (Life Writing) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554582199 ISBN 13: 9781554582198

Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010

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I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry in Canada. Basing her work on extensive interviews, Seemah Berson recreates these immigrants' stories about their lives in the Old Country and the hardship of finding work in Canada, and she tells how many of these newcomers ended up in the needle trades. Revealing a fervent sense of socialist ideology acquired in the crucible of the Russian Revolution, the stories tell of the influence of Jewish culture and traditions, of personal-and organized-fights against exploitation, and of struggles to establish unions for better working conditions.

This book is a wonderful resource for teachers of Canadian, Jewish, and social history, as well as auto/biography and cultural studies. The simplicity of the language, transcribed from oral reports, makes this work accessible to anyone who enjoys a good story.

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Seemah C. Berson was born and raised in Calcutta, India. After travelling extensively, she arrived in Vancouver, B.C., in 1954. She received her B.A. (1975) and M.A. (1980) from the University of British Columbia. She is co-editor with Henry M. Rosenthal of The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology (1988), and was a contributor to and long-time member of Outlook magazine's collective. She is a published children's author and a sometime artist in soapstone, stick-making, and painting.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1554582199
• ISBN 13: 9781554582198
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 326
• Herausgeber: Berson Seemah C.
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