Isbn: 9781550653564 - a stone in my shoe: in search of neighborhood (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: very_good.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Poet George Ellenbogen's memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journey from Franz Joseph's Austro-Hungarian empire to Montreal in the 1920s. A Stone in My Shoe charts his discovery of how an immigrant Jewish neighborhood-a tight-knit shtetl with extended families that had its own shops, institutions, and daily Yiddish newspapers-sustained him and his family as well as thousands of others. The revelations ripple outward and what surfaces-the markers of his parents' navigation in a new world and his own youth in the 1940s and 1950s Montreal-extend to all. They become part of the universal map in which readers will recognize their own quirky courses into childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Poet George Ellenbogen's memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journey from Franz Joseph's Austro-Hungarian empire to Montreal in the 1920s. A Stone in My Shoe charts his discovery of how an immigrant Jewish neighborhood-a tight-knit shtetl with extended families that had its own shops, institutions, and daily Yiddish newspapers-sustained him and his family as well as thousands of others. The revelations ripple outward and what surfaces-the markers of his parents' navigation in a new world and his own youth in the 1940s and 1950s Montreal-extend to all. They become part of the universal map in which readers will recognize their own quirky courses into childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.…

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254. . 2013. Paperback. . . . .

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254. . 2013. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Poet George Ellenbogen's memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journey from Franz Joseph's Austro-Hungarian empire to Montreal in the 1920s. A Stone in My Shoe charts his discovery of how an immigrant Jewish neighborhood-a tight-knit shtetl with extended families that had its own shops, institutions, and daily Yiddish newspapers-sustained him and his family as well as thousands of others. The revelations ripple outward and what surfaces-the markers of his parents' navigation in a new world and his own youth in the 1940s and 1950s Montreal-extend to all. They become part of the universal map in which readers will recognize their own quirky courses into childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Poet George Ellenbogen's memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journey from Franz Joseph's Austro-Hungarian empire to Montreal in the 1920s. A Stone in My Shoe charts his discovery of how an immigrant Jewish neighborhood-a tight-knit shtetl with extended families that had its own shops, institutions, and daily Yiddish newspapers-sustained him and his family as well as thousands of others. The revelations ripple outward and what surfaces-the markers of his parents' navigation in a new world and his own youth in the 1940s and 1950s Montreal-extend to all. They become part of the universal map in which readers will recognize their own quirky courses into childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.…