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Titel: The Goose Girl, the Rabbi, and the New York Teachers: A Family Memoir
Verlag: iUniverse
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1475969074
ISBN-13: 9781475969078
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: good

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Part history, part memoir, The Goose Girl, the Rabbi, and the New York Teachers: A Family Memoir recounts a narrative of lives lived in dramatically changing times. In the background loom author Deborah Heller's distant forebears: a maternal great-great-grandmother, the first Jewish woman in her nineteenth-century German village to refuse to shave her head and wear a wig (sheitel) after marriage, who earned her passage to America by driving geese to market; and a seventeenth-century Talmudic scholar, successively chief rabbi of Vienna, Prague, and Cracow, who wrote an important commentary on the Mishnah and was arrested and imprisoned by the imperial authorities. Echoes of the rebellious Goose Girl and the scholarly rabbi reverberate in the lives of Heller's parents, born at the beginning of the twentieth century - her mother in Brooklyn, her father in a Russian shtetl. Emerging from very different worlds, they came together as New York schoolteachers, sharing the radical hopes and fears of a generation marked by strong political passions. Drawing on written and oral history, legal records, and her own memories, Heller follows her parents from their early years through the McCarthy years and beyond. Focusing both on individuals and on the worlds in which they lived, The Goose Girl, the Rabbi, and the New York Teachers illuminates significant moments in Jewish and American history.

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THE GOOSE GIRL, THE RABBI, and the NEW YORK TEACHERS

A Family Memoir

By Deborah Heller

iUniverse, Inc.

Preface.................................................................... xi
Acknowledgments............................................................ xiii
I. MATERNAL FOREBEARS...................................................... 
1. The Goose Girl and the Next Two Generations............................. 1
2. My Mother's Early Years................................................. 10
II. PATERNAL FOREBEARS..................................................... 
3. The Rabbi: Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller....................................... 19
4. Koidanov, the Shtetl.................................................... 23
5. Beyond Those Distant Seas: Immigration.................................. 33
6. The Lower East Side: Working and Learning in America.................... 40
7. Isaiah and Judaism in the New World..................................... 51
III. BERTHA AND ISAIAH..................................................... 
8. Foreign Travel and Lake George.......................................... 57
9. Becoming Parents: Sunnyside, Early Schools, Summers..................... 66
10. A Childhood on the Old Left............................................ 82
11. The Cold War and the New York Teachers................................. 94
12. The Other Fifties...................................................... 110
IV. TRANSITIONS............................................................ 
13. The Author Moves On.................................................... 125
V. LATER YEARS............................................................. 
14. Bertha and Isaiah on the Upper West Side............................... 136
Appendix A: Selections from Bertha Heller's Letters........................ 167
Appendix B: Where Shall We Forward Your Mail? (Bertha Heller).............. 171
Appendix C: Selections from Isaiah Heller's Letters........................ 173
Notes...................................................................... 187
Works Cited................................................................ 195
About the Author........................................................... 199

CHAPTER 1

MATERNAL FOREBEARS

I. The Goose Girl and theNext Two Generations

This is the story my mother told: My mother's great-grandmother, BerthaBallin, was the first Jewish woman in her village in Germany to refuse toshave her head and wear a sheitel (wig) after she married. Her husband(whose first name never figured in my mother's stories) was handsome butgood-for-nothing. Bertha raised geese as well as children. By diligentlydriving her geese to market, she earned enough money for passage toAmerica. Leaving her husband behind to look after the children and makesure the pigs didn't bite their hands off, she sailed for New York. There shegot a job as a cook in a fancy apartment on Fifth Avenue, during the timeGeneral Grant was president (1869–1877).

When she had saved enough money, she sent tickets back to her familyin Hesse Darmstadt, near Frankfurt am Main. After her family joined herin New York, she looked around to find a husband for her daughter Rosa.Unimpressed by the Jewish young men she saw in the New World, sheremembered the tall, good-looking redhead from a neighboring village withwhom Rosa had danced at folk dances across the ocean. Over her daughter'svociferous objections ("Mother, don't you dare!"), Bertha purchased yetanother ticket and brought the adventurous Franz ("Fritz") Oppenheim toNew York. Rosa took a second look and changed her mind.

Rosa and her husband—my great-grandparents—ran a furniture storein the Yorkville section of New York City "at a time," as my mother put it,"when Jews thought they were Germans." When the store went under inthe Crisis of 1893, the enterprising Rosa and Fritz opened a clam chowderbar in Far Rockaway. There, while still a relatively young man, Fritz wasstanding and talking to his wife when he suddenly dropped dead. Rosa wasso sad that she closed up the clam chowder bar and moved with her children,Mina, Charlie, and Henrietta, to Brooklyn.

When Henrietta—my grand mother—fell in love with Abraham Marks,Rosa disapproved. Abraham came froma Russian Jewish family. As a GermanJew, Rosa didn't want her daughter to "marry beneath her station." Henriettaand Abraham were forced to wait five years before they were able to wed. Inan era of chaste propriety, they "kept company" on bicycles.

Henrietta had been apiano teacher before she wasmarried, but once she becamea wife her husband forbade herto work for money; so she gaveup teaching. Evidently, the NewWorld was uncongenial to theindependent spirit of BerthaBallin. Or perhaps Henrietta'srebelliousness had simplyexhausted itself over the five longyears in which she steadfastlyresisted her mother's oppositionto her marriage choice. It is, ofcourse, also conceivable thatHenrietta was just as happy notto continue working as a pianoteacher, or was even complicit inAbraham's prohibition—thoughthis is not the way my motherpresented it. In fact, Henrietta did not entirely cease teaching; my mother'scousins were the unpaying beneficiaries of my grandfather's prohibition.Henrietta's musical accomplishment, however, had an intimidating effect onher own daughter, my mother, also named Bertha. Discouraged, as she toldit, by the ridges that her mother's constant practice had worn deep in theivory keys, "Little Bertha" eventually abandoned the study of her mother'sinstrument.

I never heard my grandmother play the piano, though there was one inher house. I remember her above all in her kitchen and garden. When I wasgrowing up in Sunnyside, Queens during the 1940s and early 1950s, we usedto drive out to Jamaica every Sunday afternoon to visit my grandmother. Shelived in her own house, along with her son, my mother's younger brother,Uncle Murray; his wife, Aunt Bea; and my cousin Bob (Bobby at the time).It didn't seem odd to me then that they were all living there together. If Ihad ever thought of the situation as requiring explanation, it would neverhave occurred to me that this might reflect any financial difficulties my unclehad. As far as I knew, Murray and Bea were better off financially than myparents were. They always had a car, which we did not, and their cars werealways bigger and fancier than ours (when we had one).

All the conventional wisdom I've heard since, about how two grownwomen can't live together comfortably in the same house, was far frommy experience. From what I observed, Grandma and Aunt Bea had anadmirable division of labor. My grandmother looked after the house, doingthe cleaning and the cooking. Aunt Bea did the shopping and helped Murraywith his work. I had, of course, only a hazy idea of what...

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